More gameplay footage from PAX. This time it’s the smuggler, the bounty hunter and finally the trooper, which we haven’t really seen in action until now. Thanks again to the guys from DarthHater for filming and uploading these ones.

A trailer for the planet Coruscant has been shown at the Penny Arcade Expo, confirming the planet as playable and showing off some of the environment. There’s also some combat gameplay, which includes a very brief look at some of the Jedi’s moves and some fancy robe-swishing physics.

Thanks to the boys at DarthHater.com for the video.

The rumor? Sony Online Entertainment has once again partnered up with LucasArts to develop a browser-based Star Wars MMO set in the Clone Wars period. Sony would use the browser-based engine used to power free-to-play MMO Free Realms to develop the game and it would be aimed at a casual audience based on the Clone Wars CGI movie and television series. Read more »

Another new timeline video has been added to the official site, going one step further back in history. This time, it deals with the Mandalorian’s return to the galaxy and Sith involvement. Once again the video is narrated by Lance Henriksen as Jedi Master Gnost-Dural. Check out this week’s timeline holorecord, The Empire Changes Strategy, now.

We knew it was coming after its unofficial reveal at GamesCom this past week, but now it is official as BioWare has announced the Sith Warrior to be the next playable class in Star Wars: The Old Republic.

You can read all about the Sith Warrior in our classes section, and expect to see some screenshots and videos up soon.

Recently there has been talk about what the level cap will be in The Old Republic and how relative the characters we’ve seen in the developer walkthrough are to that cap. Well both Sean Dahlberg and Daniel Erickson have given us something to discuss on the matter. On the SWTOR official forums, Sean Dahlberg had this to say:

In addition to that, Daniel Erickson talked about the game in an interview with G4 at GamesCom.

“We have this very long story arc that we can bring things back to. You may have completely forgotten that when you were at level eight, that you killed this guy you didn’t need to kill. His family hasn’t forgotten it and they’re going to find you 20 hours later and hunt you down, and you’re going to have to deal with the ramifications. One of the really fun things there is that you may be a completely different person at that point. You might have decided to give up your crazy ways from when you were a kid. And now at level 40, you’re a pretty good and these guys come to you. You have to decide, ‘Okay, am I going to cover that up? How am I going to handle it?’ These are the things that really make the galaxy feel alive.”

So now we know the game will have at least 40 levels. What the max level will be is up to speculation for now.

The friendly chaps over at DarthHater.com have done a lovely job of going through the recently released 20 minutes of gameplay footage with a fine tooth comb and pointing out EVERYTHING of interest. The information is presented in a series of screen captures with points of interest overlayed.

Be warned though, the images are in PNG format and quite large. We will endeavour to host them here as more space-efficient JPG files in the near future.

Until then, enjoy! Click the image below to head to the site.

BioWare’s Sean Dahlberg confirmed today via forum post that non-human races will be playable. Most of us already assumed as much, but there were a few people around worrying about the lack of non-human characters shown so far. These people may now officially chillax.

German site SWTOR-Station scored a video interview with lead writer Daniel Erickson at GamesCom the other day. Not a lot is revealed, but there is some hinting in regards to future sith classes.

Video is below.

Bioware hosted a demo video of TOR at the Gamescom in Germany this past week.  The SWTOR-Station reporters attended the convention and posted some juicy tidbits of information for us at their site.  Some of the things mentioned in the TOR demo included auction houses, crafting, PvP play, and housing.  Yes, housing.  There are no other details at this time, so we’ll have to wait for more news. All of those things sound great if they’re implemented appropriately.

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