Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Genre(s)	Action role-playing, Massively multiplayer online role-playing
Developer(s)	BioWare Obsidian Entertainment Saber Interactive Broadsword Online Studios
Publisher(s)	Microsoft Game Studios LucasArts Aspyr Electronic Arts
Creator(s)	Drew Karpyshyn, James Ohlen
Platform(s)	Windows Xbox Mac OS X iOS Android Linux Nintendo Switch
First release	Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic July 15, 2003
Latest release	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Legacy of the Sith February 15, 2022
Parent series	Star Wars video games

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) is a media franchise of space opera role-playing video games created and developed by BioWare, which have seen releases on the original Xbox, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, OS X, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, IOS, Android and Nintendo Switch. The franchise takes place in the fictional universe of Star Wars by George Lucas.

The first title, and subsequent massively multiplayer online role-playing game series, was developed by BioWare while the second was done by Obsidian Entertainment per LucasArts' request.^[1] All were published by LucasArts. The video game series is based on an earlier comic book series; the franchise includes a subsequent new comic book series. Both comic series were published by Dark Horse Comics and act as prequels to the video games.