Every week, at least for the foreseeable future, we’ll be presenting you a new segment called “Get to Know a Dev” where we get all the developers you know and love to answer a few serious questions like, “Where is the best place to grab lunch?”

This week we get a chance to pick the brain of Georg Zoeller, Principal Lead Combat Designer, who we got to know a little bit about back in April in a “Bioware: A Day in a Life” thread on the Official Forums. Keep reading to find out why it may be touch and go during the first week of any new semester at the nearby Acadamy.

http://www.forcejunkies.com/2011/09/...georg-zoeller/

Here's a teaser:
What other games have you worked on and how long have you been working on Star Wars: The Old Republic?

I’ve been with BioWare since 2003 (I was hired from the Neverwinter Nights forum community) and worked on the Neverwinter Nights Series, Jade Empire, the Mass Effect series and Dragon Age: Origins before relocating to BioWare Austin to work on The Old Republic.

Thanks for the great feedback!

Hello Everyone!

I would like to introduce our new website, FORCE Junkies. For those that have played RIFT you might know recognize the Junkie part as we are the creators of RIFTJunkies.com. Since we love videos games, and especially Star Wars, we're expanding to cover SWTOR.

Now I wouldn't be posting this just for the sake of saying hello without giving you guys something to watch. We were at PAX and met a whole lot of great Bioware guys which include Stephen Reid, James Ohlen, David Bass, Gabe Amatangelo and more! We were also welcomed warmly by the SWTOR fansite community and we got to meet the folks from Darth Hater, Torocast, CRR, AskaJedi and TORWars.

While meeting all these wonderful people we managed to take some time and talk with James Ohlen about a lot of different aspects on the game. I hope you enjoy the interview.

Interview: http://www.forcejunkies.com/2011/08/29/pax-2011-interview-with-game-director-james-ohlen/

Trion has just released all of the details on their Collectors Edition for Rift. Check it out here - http://www.riftjunkies.com/2010/12/28/details-on-rifts-collectors-edition/ - it's going to be awesome.

Thanks, glad you guys like it!

We just went through a major site redesign recently and it's time to show it off. Thanks to Teljair for an amazing job.

Here are a few new things we have for now that Beta 3 is about to kick off.

We'll be live streaming Beta 3 for everyone to watch. It will begin tomorrow evening. Stay tuned for updated times!

Link> http://www.riftjunkies.com/2010/12/2...-beta-3-event/

For those neophytes just entering Beta 3 we now have Newbie Survival Guides for each of the callings. Essentially these are primers more than guides, but should help the new and maybe the veteran beta testers out!

Link> http://www.riftjunkies.com/rift-junkie-guides/

For those that did not get into Beta 3 and don't have access to the Beta Forums here are the Patch Notes with all the changes coming this week.

Link> http://www.riftjunkies.com/2010/12/2...3-patch-notes/

I hope you guys enjoy everything, just don't mind our Forums! They are still under construction but make sure you stop by and say hello and join the conversation.

 I just wanted to make you all aware of a new interview at Rerollz.com - www.rerollz.com/2009/12/15/interview-with-allods-online/

Rerollz got a chance to ask a few questions of Wes Yanagi, Senior Producer of DC Universe Online. We got a chance to check the game out in person back at NY Comic Con and now we got a chance to learn a little more about the game. One point of interest is how they plan on meshing new gear that you get with your existing costume so it matches.

Read the interview here.

Recently we did a large write up on Aion, this was based on playing first hand the Chinese Open Beta. Enjoy!

http://www.rerollz.com/2009/04/15/a-closer-look-at-ncsofts-aion/

I just wanted to share with everyone a new Q&A released with Mark Jacobs.

http://waaaghhammer.com/2008/09/25/waaagh-hammers-qa-with-mark-jacobs/

I just wanted to share the link to a new website with some great WAR articles.

http://www.waaaghhammer.com

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Originally posted by erixone
we have baron nuff said

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