smrtsmith: Star Wars: The Old Republic revealed

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SAN FRANCISCO--Today in a flashy media event in San Francisco, LucasArts and BioWare announced development from the   PC massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic. Though ostensibly suspenseful, the unveiling's thunder was stolen the 2009 July by John Riccitiello, CEO of BioWare parent Electronic Arts. Speaking into a business-oriented SWTOR Credits Buy magazine, the executive casually confirmed that, yes, BioWare was focusing on a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set inside Star Wars: Knights in the Old Republic Universe.     
However, Riccitiello's comments--which weren't officially corroborated until today--were unsurprising even so. Whispers of your KOTOR MMOG began back March 2006, when BioWare opened a satellite studio dedicated solely with an unnamed massively multiplayer online role-playing project. Leading the revolutionary operation were James Ohlen, lead designer from the original KOTOR, and Richard Vogel, former vp of application at Sony Online Entertainment, developer with the only current LucasArts MMORPG, Star Wars Galaxies.         
The fact the studio was a student in Austin, Texas--home of SOE's Austin shop, that's the developer of Galaxies--only heightened SWTOR Credits for sale suspicions how the BioWare game was Star Wars-related. A year plus a half later, speculation reached stratospheric levels when BioWare and LucasArts announced these were collaborating with a "next-generation entertainment product." Since the one joint ventures involving the Edmonton, Alberta-based developer plus the San Francisco, California-based publisher have been the two KOTOR games, it seemed likely the modern project can be a follow-up of some sort.