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Gamers have logged over 60 million hours already.

With the year almost over and most of the games industry taking some much needed time off, Star Wars: The Old Republic seems to dominate the conversation. We here at PixlBit feel that a great deal of time is needed with the game before giving our readers a comprehensive and fair review of the game. With that said, we have some interesting information for you regarding BioWare’s Next Big Thing, including the first rumblings of expansions.

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Highly populated servers can see waits of up to an hour, but servers are slowly freeing up space.

After 6 years in development and a budget that’s rumored to rival some major motion picture costs, BioWare has finally launched their ambitious new MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Our own Rob Ottone was lucky enough to attend the special launch event in New York, which you can read about here. However, any MMO launch is bound to have some hiccups and difficulties at first. TOR is no different, and the game has been reported to have serious waiting queues for some of the high population servers. Help is on the way, though, according to the SW:TOR official forums.

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There are World Warriors that have yet to step into that ring!

With the release of the free “Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition 2012” update out now, I’ve had the seminal fighting franchise on my mind. Every Christmas, I have a 100 match melee with my cousin to see who the greatest Street Fighter of the year is. It’s time to get back to training, but as my thumbs get back into fighting form a thought occurs to me: there are some characters that have yet to step up and throw down in the Street Fighter tournament. Who are these possible “New Challengers”, and what could they bring to the table that sets them apart from the already unique and diverse cast of characters?

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The sequel to FF XIII sold 1/3 the number of copies that XIII did.

Final Fantasy XIII is one of the most divisive games in the series, on both sides of the world. The game has one of the lowest Metacritic scores for a main entry in the RPG franchise, and the creation of the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII-2 is to address the complaints that stalwart fans had of the 2010 release. That sequel launched in Japan last week, and the sales look strong. That is, until you dig a little bit deeper.

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Get a triple dose of HD Dante next Spring!

Thanks to the trend of HD reissues, you could easily spend most of 2012 playing the best games from 2001-2006 and not even think that you were missing out. Hot on the heels of the Ico/Shadow of the Colossus and Metal Gear Solid HD Collections, we’re just a bit away from Silent Hill, and let’s not forget that Jak and Daxter is on the way as well. We here at PixlBit have quite a few games and series that we would like to see get the HD treatment. Devil May Cry didn’t quite make that list, but it was definitely in the discussion. We already knew that an HD collection for all things Dante was on the way, but now we know when.

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