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Aspyr Media, Inc. Ships Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for Macintosh.


AUSTIN, Texas -- Star Wars(R): Knights of the Old Republic(R), winner of over 35 "Game of the Year" awards in 2003, has come to the Macintosh. Aspyr Media Aspyr Media, Inc. (IPA: /əsˈpaɪər/) is an Austin, Texas based company that specializes in porting Windows games to the Mac OS platform.  today announced KOTOR Kotor (kô`tôr), Ital. Cattaro, town (1991 pop. 5,620), SE Montenegro, on the Bay of Kotor, an inlet of the Adriatic. It is a seaport and a tourist center. The town was colonized by Greeks (3d cent. B.C. (TM), the first major Star Wars role-playing game A Star Wars role-playing game is a role-playing game or role-playing video game set in the fictional Star Wars universe. Official Star Wars games
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  • Star Wars d20 by Wizards of the Coast
, has shipped on the Mac. Licensed from LucasArts, KOTOR was developed for the Mac by Aspyr's internal development team, Aspyr Studios.

The critically acclaimed ac·claim  
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v.tr.
1. To praise enthusiastically and often publicly; applaud. See Synonyms at praise.

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 KOTOR takes place in the popular Old Republic timeframe, 4,000 years prior to the Star Wars films, in an era dominated by an epic conflict between Jedi and the evil Sith. Your actions determine the fate of an entire galaxy as you build your party, travel to seven enormous worlds, interact with new Star Wars characters and creatures and even create your own lightsaber.

The game is rated T for Teen by the ESRB ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board
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 and is available at www.aspyr.com for $49.99. More information on the game can also be found at www.swkotor.com

About LucasArts

LucasArts, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment products for video game consoles This is a list of video game consoles by the era they appeared in. Eras are named based on the dominant console type of the era (even though not all consoles of those eras are of the same type). Some eras are referred to based on how many bits a major console could process. , computers and the Internet. Based in Marin County, Calif., as well as on the Internet at www.lucasarts.com, LucasArts was created in 1982 by George Lucas Noun 1. George Lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944)
Lucas
 to provide an interactive element to his vision of a state-of-the-art, multi-faceted entertainment company.

Lucasfilm Ltd. is one of the world's leading film and entertainment companies. Founded by George Lucas in 1971, it is a privately held, fully integrated entertainment company. In addition to its motion-picture and television production operations, the company's global activities include Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound, serving the digital needs of the entertainment industry for visual-effects and audio post-production; and Lucas Licensing, which manages the global merchandising activities for Lucasfilm's entertainment properties. Additionally, Lucas Online creates Internet-based content for Lucasfilm's entertainment properties and businesses. Lucasfilm's motion-picture productions include five of the 20 biggest box-office hits of all time and have received 19 Oscars and 53 Academy Award nominations. Lucasfilm's television projects have won 12 Emmy Awards Emmy award

Annual presentation for outstanding achievement in U.S. television. Its name is taken from the nickname “immy” for the image orthicon, a television camera tube.
. Lucasfilm Ltd. is headquartered in Marin County, Calif.

About Aspyr Media, Inc.

Based in Austin, Texas, Aspyr Media, Inc. is a leading publisher of Macintosh interactive entertainment software, committed to offering high-quality interactive entertainment products and services, with a smile, to gamers worldwide.

More information on Aspyr and their line of products can be found online at http://www.aspyr.com.
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