Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley has clarified the comment he made pertaining to Star Wars Galaxies in the extensive Reddit AMAA he particiapted in over the weekend.
]]>Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley's extensive Reddit AMAA yielded many answers and many teases, one of which pertained to the unannounced MMO the firm has had in the works for quite some time.
]]>One player left his PC recording video of the last, celebratory gasps of Star Wars Galaxies as the venerable MMORPG shuttered forever.
]]>The dust has settled over the final battles of Sony Online Entertainment's long-lived Star Wars Galaxies. The subscription-based MMO's servers signed off today after eight years of operation, the closure triggered by the expiration of a contract, this month's launch of BioWare's The Old Republic, and questions of financial sustainability. The much-treasured universe went down fighting, in the last throes of the Galactic Civil War. So long, Star Wars Galaxies, and thanks for all the mouse droids.
]]>The promised grand conclusion to the eight year saga of Star Wars Galaxies is just two weeks away. Clear your diary.
]]>Hold on to your hats, there's a another big list of shorts for you today below the break.
]]>Star Wars Galaxies fansite SWGalaxies.net is the latest game-related hack to see player identities compromised.
]]>SOE plans to close Star Wars: Galaxies on December 15, and it wants it to close with a nice big bang. Sort of like what happened with the Death Star near Yavin 4.
]]>Lucasarts has responded to the closure of Star Wars: Galaxies, stating both it and SOE "investigated every option to keep the game open," before deciding to shutter it completely.
]]>SOE president John Smedley has said that the upcoming closure of Star Wars Galaxies is due to numerous factors, including the expiration next year of its contract with LucasArts on the MMO.
]]>A group of over 50 Star Wars Galaxies players are preparing to file a class-action lawsuit against Sony Online Entertainment, in protection of a petition to keep the game open.
]]>Sony Online Entertainment has announced it will be shutting down its long-running MMO Star Wars: Galaxies come December 15, having first launched the game on June 16, 2003.
]]>Sony Online Entertainment has resumed service, and boy, has it been busy while we were away.
]]>Sony Online Entertainment's put up a new blog post which details how it plans to compensate its customers and when they can expect its services to come back online.
]]>Server transfers. Great. Every MMO has 'em. Free ones, though? This could get messy.
]]>Sony Online Entertainment is offering players the chance to donate to a Japan relief fund by purchasing in-game items in a range of online titles.
]]>The first bifurcation of shorts is here. Read the follow-up below. The only thing better, would be triplets.
]]>In Star Wars Galaxies' January producer's letter, Tony Tyson has detailed some new concepts in the works for the game's Galactic Civil War system.
]]>Loads of MMOs are planning Halloween and fall festivities for users, but some have already launched tricky goodness.
You can find out more about those past the break, but while you are headed that way you will also learn other sorts of stuff like: Legends of Norrath's eighth expansion has launched, CrimeCraft is headed to iPhone and Facebook, and having gone free-to-play D&D Online is doing great, apparently.
Also, Star War Galaxies is overrun with zombies. That's right. Zombies.
It's all there kids. Enjoy.
]]>Loads this week in MMO news, and some is more interesting than what we have been offered in previous weeks.
FussionFall is getting an expansion for its 5 million users, the EQI&II trademark rumors turned out to be new expansions, Star Wars will be on hand at Comic-Con, and Conan got a new update.
Also, Warhammer and LotRO are celebrating the summer with festivities to make things a bit more zany and fun.
Find out all about these and others after the break.
]]>Leading up to E3, there is not a megaton of news with anything, let alone MMOs. The week was basically all about screens, delving into crafting systems and character sheets, and general stuff that you can view on any online game's website. It's called pre-E3 malaise, and today it's pretty thick.
However, we have dug through the mire once more to bring you something in the way of MMO news that didn't hit the front page.
You can catch up on it all after the break.
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