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Welcome back to a long awaited Holocron Gamer Nation! MostlyJoe returns and then promptly heads out to Coruscant, Fiddleback gives the Grand Tour of Balmorra, and we have a nice little chat about what happens when Mummy and Daddy have to work different hours. Check all this out and more in Holcron #18, “Planetside”.

If you dig back again I stated a handful of worries about the SWTOR: http://www.d20radio.com/theholocron/?p=350 MMOs, especially huge productions like SWTOR, have been plagued with strange problems and development snags over the years. I don’t mind being d20radio’s in-house Negative Nancy, as long as I’m constantly proven wrong, every time one of my fears is put [...]

I’m happy and worried all at once. Besides my new graphics card nuking on me recently, the beta signup for SWTOR gives me a touch of fear. Fear you say? Well yes, because this is one of the ‘warning signs’ of a rushed development cycle. I could be wrong. I pray I’m wrong! But EA [...]

http://kotaku.com/5302069/ea-combines-mythic-and-bioware-into-a-giant-rpg-robotin-what In what is an interesting move EA has merged Bioware and Mythic Entertainment into one company. This new layout brings Bioware management over Warhammer Online AND the upcoming Star Wars MMO. This could be a cost saving movement on EA’s part allowing for one management team and a combined server/support system. Smart or strange, [...]

Kotaku – Old Republic Is All-Talk (Literally) – E3 2009. *HEAD EXPLODE* Thank you Bioware. Thank you! No text, Voice Overs for everything. *sniff* I’m all misty eyed.

At some core level I’m wishing, hoping, and dreaming that the game will be awesome beyond words and I’m going to be blown away with the new Star Wars MMO. But before we cross that bridge I think it’s time to air the worst of the What if things go bad? fears. Keep in mind [...]

Star Wars: The Old Republic | News Articles. Check out the new timeline info posted on the SW:TOR site. What it presents is a moralistically…indifferent character doing a very good thing for the Republic. Giving this poster hope that we can indeed play very selfish, very troubling heroes in the game with out being tied [...]

Ah, the life of a Droid. Perhaps the most misunderstood of the Star Wars characters. But it might be possible to play one in the upcoming The Old Republic. It’s not official yet…but it does present some interesting speculation. First off, playing a Droid is going to be problematic. Droids are property. For all their wits [...]

Okay, if you’ve got a second go take a gander at the new Hasbro/EA join venture. http://hasbro.ea.com/ Now, what’s going on is that EA is bringing Hasbro’s games to the video game market. You know, Monopoly, Risk, etc. So what does that have to do with us Star Wars fans? Well, as we all know [...]

I wanted to wish Mostly Joe a very Happy Birthday.  As it happens his is the same as my own dear sainted mother. Speaking of birthdays, I feel I need to bring up the fact that The Holocron will celebrate Joe’s birthday on Sunday night, but late.  Stay up and tell Joe Happy Birthday along [...]