FIRST STAR WARS EXPANSION ANNOUNCED; TO BE TITLED “NECROMANCY AND ALCHEMY” [Author: Lum the Mad]

(If you don’t get the title, it’s a UO thing. You wouldn’t understand.)

Two Star Wars Galaxies newsbits out of E3 today: the first actual screenshots (the forest scenes looking an awful lot like Luclin) and an announced expansion that adds the first word of the game title. (The third word, “Galaxies”, will be added in the second expansion with the Battlestar Galactica and Muffy the Daggit addons!)

\’e2\’80\’9cThe staggered release schedule of the space component of the Star Wars Galaxies series will benefit players because they will have time to establish their characters and explore different elements of the core game before we add the space layer,\’e2\’80\’9d says Rich Vogel, director of development at Sony Online Entertainment\’e2\’80\’99s Austin studio. \’e2\’80\’9cOnce the space component becomes available, players who have been with us since the beginning will be ready to buy their own starships and launch into this new arena.\’e2\’80\’9d

Translated into Basic, “We have to get this damn thing out by Episode Two or else George Lucas will make us add gungans.”