This week we have EA’s response to worry that their servers for Star Wars: The Old Republic may not hold up, Mac users get Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars and Yoda was arrested for drunk driving in Germany. Wait. What?
As you may have heard, the Battlefield 3 servers, which are also run by publisher EA, had some serious downtime this week, taking offline thousands upon thousands of users on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms. This, of course, caused major outrage and a lot of pie on the face of the software giant, but it also shed doubt on their ability to maintain Star Wars: The Old Republic. EA was quick to point out that there is an entirely different PC only configuration involved in the SW:TOR servers and that the same problems would not be seen there. Of course, with anything of this nature there is bound to be a problem at some point. Even Google isn’t immune. But it’s good that EA is trying to look ahead and see what they’ve done wrong in the past.
If you have a Mac, you were probably disappointed to learn that Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars wouldn’t be coming out with the PC, but good news. As of a last week, you can now buy the irreverent look at the George Lucas universe in all its glory for $29.99 in North America, 19.99 pounds in the UK and 24.99 euros everywhere else in Europe for the Mac version. The game, developed by TT Games, in cooperation with LucasArts, features 32 story-based missions, 48 levels, 16 star systems and includes bits from not only the animated series, but the movies as well. As for requirements, you will need Mac OS X 10.6.8 or higher, 2GB of RAM, 1.4Ghz Intel processor, 7GB of drive space, 128MB of Video RAM and a keyboard. ATI X1xxx, Nvidia 7xxx and Intel GMA video boards will not be supported, so you may be out of luck if you have one of these, but this is certainly a good reason to upgrade.
And finally, Yoda may not be able to make any of the Jedi Council meetings after losing his wheels in Germany this last week. Seems he was partying just a bit too hard and then decided to drive home. However, he never got that far, hitting a pedestrian, which he lightly injured. The cops caught up with him after he drove away from the scene. And they were pretty surprised when they went up to the window and who was sitting in the front seat but Grand Master Yoda, apparently quite plastered. They took the costumed man (yes, it was only a Halloween costume) to the station, got his blood for an alcohol test, confiscated his driver’s license and sent him home. It’s not clear whether he had a court date or a lawyer or that concluded the matter. He did have to walk home as Yoda though, which probably freaked out the citizens as well. But the best part of the story was that the cop couldn’t resist the urge to include at least one Star Wars reference in the report when he wrote “The force was not with him.”
And that’s all the Star Wars news we have at the moment. Thanks for reading.
