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Want To Get Paid To Play Star Wars™: The Old Republic™?

Are you interested in The Old Republic? (Of course you are.) Do you live in or around Austin? Are you looking to break into the game industry?

If you answered yes to any or all of those, BioWare wants to hear from you!

Austin Books will be holding a special Star Wars day this Saturday at their shop, and tweeted some juicy info:

@austinbooks Update about our Star Wars Day: BioWare will be here recruiting part time, onsite playtesters for their MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic!

BioWare Senior Community Manager Stephen Reid added some advice of his own on Twitter as well:

@rockjaw If you want to work in QA at BioWare on #SWTOR and live in Austin, TX (or nearby), you might want to head to @AustinBooks this Saturday.

So, what are you waiting for? Cancel all of your plans for Saturday and head on down to Austin Books at a shot for getting paid to play The Old Republic!

[UPDATE] Austin Books has confirmed via its Facebook event page that Alexander Freed and Rob Chestney, authors of “Blood Of The Empire” and “Threat of Peace” respectively, will also be on hand to sign comics and chat with fans!

Stephen Reid, BioWare Senior Community Manager, has also confirmed his attendance:

@rockjaw Austin Books tomorrow – more details on the Facebook event page http://on.fb.me/hgogMC – I’ll be there 2-ish to 4-ish…

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New Warzone Revealed? The Voidstar + Extended Release Into 2012?

German MMO gaming magazine buffed.de has pubished a short preview of The Old Republic in their latest issue, and in the process revealed a new Warzone: The Voidstar

While the piece is understandably entirely in German, our friend Google helps us out on the translation surrounding The Voidstar:

War zones, these are the PvP battle-fields translated in The Old Republic. Long-Up was only one known and that the civil war on Alderaan (more on page 18), but now Bioware still the PvP battlefield”The Voidstar” announced interred, which will provide a Conquestmode. More will follow as we lead designer told PvP month, Gabe.

It seems this may have been some information learned at the recent London press event, as we know Gabe Amatangelo was in attendance.

Part of the translation seems to indicate a “conquest” formatted Warzone.

A potentially more disturbing Google translation would be about the release date:

Star Wars license to the top dog WoW defy? This is the central question as to which moves the community. Expected to achieve appears the sci-fi MMO in the second half of 2011 and no later than early 2012.

Clearly a rough translation… but 2012 is clear. Does that mean that the game will possibly not ship until early next year? We may have almost a year to go, if true.

via DarthHater.com

 

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Facebook Image Of The Week #8

Stardate: -311718.7601154237

Oops, wrong sci-fi universe.

At any rate, it’s Wednesday and BioWare has given us another Facebook Image Of the Week (Number 8, for those keeping track):

I think this shot really shows off the scale of the structures, much as the recent PAX East Planet video teasers. It appears this is one big game, with big zones!

Make sure you head on over to Facebook and “Like” Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ so you get these great images posted directly onto your wall!

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"Making Of" Book In The Works?

For as much time as we at Ask A Jedi all spend on the forums, I can’t believe this one slipped under the radar.

There is little detail currently available about the 160 page tome, and the link to it on Amazon has been removed (along with the image.) The publisher, listed as Chronicle Books, seems to focus on a different stream of content, but you never know. The book, incidentally, doesn’t show up on their site either. The projected date of availability is November 1, 2011.

While this appears to be a book that will be available from multiple retailers, this is the sort of thing that is usually one of the included perks when you buy a “collector’s edition” of an MMORPG (or any game, in general.)

Here are some retailers who currently have it listed:

• Amazon
• Borders
• Allbooks

I have no doubt everyone reading this would love to have a copy when (if) it comes out. The question is would you buy it separately, or go for the collector’s edition if available?

We’ll see if we can dig up any more info on this lust-worthy item! Stay tuned!

 

 

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Facebook Image Of The Week #7

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Facebook Image of The Week, that’s who.

Ok, sorry. That was bad.

But this is good! BioWare has released the 7th image in their series of Facebook Images of The Week.

In this screenshot, we get a look inside of the Imperial Agent‘s starship, the X-70B Phantom:

The caption makes us wonder if there might be elements to ship upkeep and customization in the game. What do you think?

Make sure you head on over to Facebook and “Like” Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ so you get these great images posted directly onto your wall!

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