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Simutronics and BioWare announced that its first MMO title, Star Wars: The Old Republic, is being developed Simutronics’ HeroEngine middleware technology. BioWare Austin, the developers behind the game, said that it selected the Simutronics because it wanted to partner with a good track record of developing technology that is squarely focused on MMO design and deployment.

HeroEngine is described as an “integrated, collaborative, and realtime platform for full life-cycle development, deployment, and maintenance of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games and virtual worlds.” Licensees include ZeniMax Online, and many more around the world. More information is available at heroengine.com.

More detail on BioWare’s MMO can be found at www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com.

At an event at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco just mere minutes ago, BioWare founders and LucasArts’ Daniel Rodriguez announced a new massively multiplayer role-playing game set in the Star Wars universe. The new game, set in the Old Republic is called Star Wars: The Old Republic. The game was announced by BioWare founders Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, who confirmed what we already knew: the game is in development at BioWare Austin.

While BioWare’s founders are keeping most of the details secret, they did reveal that the goal of the game is to create something that anyone can pick up and play - even non-Star Wars fans. It was also revealed that companions will play a serious and integral role in the core gameplay. Players will also have a strong influence on their companions, based on their moral choices and attitudes.

James Ohlen, who is the creative director of BioWare Austin and the writer behind BioWare’s hit RPG KOTOR, offered some light details on when the game is set. Old Republic will be set 3,500 years before the Star Wars films and 300 years after the Obsidian developed Knights of the Old Republic II. Players will be able to choose between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, each offering their own set of classes. Every class will have some sort of back-story to get the adventure rolling just like the early Star Wars movie characters.

We’ll have more info on this game as it becomes available. In the interim, check out this first batch of screens and art from the game:  Star Wars: The Old Republic Media. And for a different take on today’s announcement, check out the latest Backward Compatible comic right here on Crispy Gamer.

According to a rumor floated by Variety’s Cut Scene Blog (citing multiple “reliable sources”), Hollywood movie producer Avi Arad has optioned the rights to BioWare’s sci-fi action role-playing game, Mass Effect from Electronic Arts.

Avi Arad is best known is the head of Marvel Entertainment’s movie business spearheading such hit films as X-Men, Spider-Man, Iron Man Ghost Rider, Elektra, Ghost Rider, and many more.

Certainly a Mass Effect movie is a great idea given the rich back-story in BioWare’s game and the many compelling characters would work well in a film. We’ll keep you posted on this story as it develops, but for now let’s just call it what it is: just a rumor.

Source: Cut Scene Blog

SEGA of America and BioWare’s Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood has gone gold and will be in stores exclusively for the DS on September 30th. Promising an all new adventure crafted by BioWare the game will take the Sonic universe to a new space with new adventures, beautiful environments, a classic cast of characters, and a new dark enemy for Sonic to take on. Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood marks the first RPG game for Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends.

For more information, check out our recent preview.

If you liked the tools that Bioware provided for its Neverwinter Nights role-playing game series then take heart in the fact that a toolset is planned for its next big RPG - Dragon Age. The company announced today that it will deliver content-creations tools to the gaming community with the release of its game. the company is also showing off these tools for the very first time at the Penny Arcade Expo in the Washington State Convention & Trade Center today through Sunday.

Attendees of the Penny Arcade Expo will be the first to see the new toolset in action as BioWare will provide a live demonstration of some of its features and capabilities. The Dragon Age Toolset will be part of a stage demonstration during the Penny Arcade Expo at 1:30pm, August 31, on the main stage.

These tools will allow consumers to create their own original adventures, create all kinds of scripts using the included script editor, access to a creator similar to what it set up for Neverwinter Nights and the promises of continual updates to the tools.
You can find out more about the tools and the game by visiting www.dragonage.com.

BioWare is going on the road to promote their upcoming dark heroic fantasy Dragon Age: Origins. The company’s next RPG will be publicly shown for the first time ever to fans at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana, the GC Developers Conference in Leipzig, Germany and the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Washington.

This marks the very first public appearance of Dragon Age: Origins ever, with fans able to get a first-hand look at the combat, magic and digital actors that make up this game.

For more information about Dragon Age: Origins check out www.dragonage.com.