{"id":28192,"date":"2013-04-10T18:39:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T08:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=28192"},"modified":"2013-04-10T18:39:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T08:39:27","slug":"the-battle-for-makeb-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=28192","title":{"rendered":"THE BATTLE FOR MAKEB HAS BEGUN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, players in Star Wars<sup>TM<\/sup>: The Old Republic<sup>TM<\/sup> are gearing up to take on the ruthless Hutt Cartel in an epic battle over the planet of Makeb, in the first Digital Expansion: <em>Rise of the Hutt Cartel<\/em>.\u00a0 With the start of Early Access, players who pre-ordered Rise of the Hutt Cartel by January 7, 2013 are starting their journey five days before anyone else, today!<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Rise of the Hutt Cartel<\/em> players will battle a ferocious new enemy that has emerged from the shadows to challenge the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire for control. The dangerous Hutt Cartel will unleash never-before-seen Droids and monstrous battle stations that serve as powerful weapons of destruction.\u00a0 All of this, and new new weapons, armor, abiliites and 5 new levels of progression, raising the game\u2019s level cap to 55.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Early Access for Rise of the Hutt Cartel, BioWare is also releasing the hugely ambitious new<em> Game Update 2.0: Scum and Villainy<\/em>.\u00a0 Scum and Villainy will bring exciting new Level 55 content to our high level players including a new Operation, all new Legacy Achievements, four Hard Mode Flashpoints, and much more. Also, players can now earn an additional 5% Guild XP Bonus for all experience gained while playing in a guild. Players can expect more valuable in-game bonuses and benefits for being in a guild coming later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the new <em>\u201c<\/em>Scum and Villainy\u201d launch trailer for Game Update 2.0 here and if you haven\u2019t pre-ordered Rise of the Hutt Cartel yet, there is still time to pre-order and receive exclusive items.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XNK2th0137A?rel=0\" height=\"320\" width=\"620\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To pre-order Rise of the Hutt Cartel, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com\/RiseoftheHuttCartel\" target=\"_new\">www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com\/RiseoftheHuttCartel<\/a>. Stay connected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com\" target=\"_new\">www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com<\/a> or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, players in Star WarsTM: The Old RepublicTM are gearing up to take on the ruthless Hutt Cartel in an epic battle over the planet of Makeb, in the first Digital Expansion: Rise of the Hutt Cartel.\u00a0 With the start of Early Access, players who pre-ordered Rise of the Hutt Cartel by January 7, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=28192\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news","category-trailers-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28198,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192\/revisions\/28198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}