The Holocron

Okay, so I’m a little slow on the uptake with this, partially seeing as it’s been posted pretty much everywhere else. Highlights: -Saber user in heavy armor (inspired by Vader, so they say.)  Not sure what to think about that, but certainly unexpected. -Despite using “action points” and being likened to WoW’s Rogue class in [...]

Ahh good old G4.  Such stunning strides forward since they took over TechTv.  In a continuing example of their professionalism, dedication, and quality they completely missed the SW:TOR ComicCon panel.  And after SW:TOR went to such lengths to promote the fact that G4 was going to be there, you’d have thought the one media outlet [...]

Wow.  What an update this week.  I mean, just tons of good info and really impressive…..oh who am I kidding? Seriously, we’ve had our fill of E3 info.  We’ve read all the articles there are to read, watched all the interviews, devoured every scrap of info to come out of E3 until we are filled [...]

Seriously, MMOGamer is swiftly becoming my favorite TOR info site.  Yet another Epic interview with bioware Devs has been posted up on their site and it is 4 pages chock full of SW:TOR goodness.  Like this: Daniel Erickson: It is a story that advances as you advance, with several smaller stories that go on, as [...]

GameTrailer.com has a slightly better E3 interview with one of BioWare’s people about TOR.  You can check it out here and learn everything there is to know about the Ship Date. Star Wars: The Old Republic Video Game, E3 09: Story And Smuggler Class Interview | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com.

Gamespot gets an exclusive sneak peek at the smuggler class in this interview with Bioware Senior Content Producer Dallas Dickinson, principal lead writer Daniel Erickson, and lead systems designer Damion Schubert. To succeed, the smuggler must rely on stealth, charm and my personal favorite, SHOOT FIRST!  Check out this article at gamespot and Brian and [...]

Hope you are ready to cut loose because we’re going on A Date with Starkiller. Tonight, we are joined by d20radio’s own Mr. Sam Witwer, who happily answers your questions and discusses what he hopes to see in SW: TOR.  Along the way, he reminisces about games of yesteryear and spills the beans about who [...]

Howdy Gang, The Holocron records live Sunday May 17th at 6pm Pacific (9pm Eastern) with Special Guest Sam Witwer.  You can join us live by logging in to our live chat channel http://www.ustream.tv/channel/d20radio and participate in the cast. Hope to see you all there.

Hey gang, check out this post and pay attention to Day Two’s tiny little bombshell from BioWare : GDC Canada 2009: The Recap Part One Specifically this little gem of a paragraph from the Keynote presentation: While explaining their current model of story design, the doctors liberally dropped hints at what to expect in their upcoming [...]

Not a whole lot of news for you folks today, but here goes: First, Happy Birthday to Joe, hope you’ve enjoyed yourself.  Many happy returns and so forth. Second, it looks like Holocron #11 will tentatively be recording live this coming Sunday.  As promised, we will be talking Planets.  We’ve done a big work up [...]