FeatureHow a lifelong diet of games influenced The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
"I went to video games and did not realise I was doing it!"
"I forget everything between footsteps.
FeatureHow a lifelong diet of games influenced The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
"I went to video games and did not realise I was doing it!"
"I forget everything between footsteps.
FeatureBioWare had a really cool idea for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
"Everyone trusts Yoda..."
How do you follow a game like Knights of the Old Republic, the most famous original Star Wars tale a video game has ever told? Forget about Obsidian's sequel for a moment and imagine it was BioWare staring at a piece of paper wondering how to follow a twist like Revan's. Because once upon a time BioWare was - and it came up with an idea.
FeatureCan Star Wars: The Old Republic ever live up to the promise of its incredible trailers?
And the spectre of KOTOR 3?
Last week a wonderful Star Wars animation captured the imaginations of gaming audiences and beyond. It told the story of a mother trying to rescue her young daughter from the Dark Side of the Force. Innocence versus corruption. It was emotional, cinematic and had an impressive fight scene. Such production values wouldn't have looked out of place in a cinema. But this animation wasn't building excitement for the big screen. It was building excitement for a game. But could a game ever live up to it?
What the animation tapped into was a longing for a cinematic Star Wars game with a story. Perhaps Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will have a story in 2017. Amy Hennig's Star Wars action adventure, due out in 2018, definitely will. But will they be deep and winding and emotional enough? Let's cut to the chase: what the trailer tapped into was a longing for Knights of the Old Republic 3.
Imagine the fantastical sights and sounds of Star Wars brought to life with the razzmatazz of the Mass Effect series (which in a way I suppose was BioWare's KOTOR 3 - one it could creatively fully control). Imagine an emotional BioWare tale of Light and Dark, with all the characters and romances and betrayals the studio is famed for. The battles! The Lightsabers thrumming and clashing like cymbals, Force powers crackling and raging. I would like no game more! But I can't have it.
FeatureDigging into the exciting and unlikely fan-made KOTOR reboot Apeiron
"Yes it is very ambitious, exceedingly even. But doable? Yes, very much so."
The Unreal Engine 4 reboot of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, known as Apeiron, sounds too good to be true. BioWare's treasured 2003 role-playing game brought not only up to date visually but also mechanically, with new content on top. Yet there are pictures and videos of Apeiron and it looks great.
A possible link between Kylo Ren's Lightsaber in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the decade-old Knights of the Old Republic video games, has been found. If the link holds true it would seem to cement those games in Star Wars film canon.
FeatureFear is the path to the dark side
Obsidian on KOTOR 2 and what KOTOR 3 might have been.
Please note that there are spoilers about Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 in this article, although I try to keep them to a minimum.
FeatureBastard of the Old Republic
Part 3: Return of the Bastard.
(You can now read the entire Bastard of the Old Republic series in one place.)
FeatureBastard of the Old Republic
Part 2: Bastardier.
(You can now read the entire Bastard of the Old Republic series in one place.)
FeatureBastard of the Old Republic
Part 1: A nice man takes a journey to the Dark Side.
(You can now read the entire Bastard of the Old Republic series in one place.)
They just keep rolling.
Have you ever wondered what your doctor thinks about while they're poking and prodding you? If you lived in Edmonton, Canada, in the mid '90s there's a chance your doctor was thinking, "Gee, I wish I was making computer games instead of rummaging inside this diseased colon". At least, that's how it might have played out if you were the patient of Dr Greg Zeschuk, Dr Ray Muzyka or Dr Augustine Yip. And if you had a diseased colon.
FeatureStar Wars Knights of the Old Republic
Preview - around here, it's the most highly anticipated Xbox game there is
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