In the following months, rumors persisted about the development of a new Knights of the Old Republic video game, spurred on by leaks from within BioWare and LucasArts and the registration of 'Star Wars The Old Republic' and 'The Old Republic' as LucasArts trademarks. By January 7, 2007, Electronic Arts completed its acquisition of BioWare/Pandemic for $860 million, in a move motivated by hopes of expanding into the MMO genre of video games. It was released on December 31 2011.Įvery player recieves his or her own Starship.īioWare began development on The Old Republic in December 2005 at a satellite studio in Austin, Texas constructed primarily for the project.
The game is set 300 years after the events in Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, and over 3,000 years before the rise of Darth Vader.
Star Wars: The Old Republic, abbreviated to TOR, is an massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by LucasArts and BioWare.
