There were launch parties held for The Old Republic on Monday night in North America, with official BioWare presence in Times Square, New York and at the Austin, Texas Best Buy. Check out how the game’s launch was celebrated in the gallery below, posted on the official SWTOR Facebook page.

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With Amazon shipping their copies of The Old Republic early, we got out hands on the Collector’s Edition before the game’s official release date and have put together a video and image gallery of the contents. The box includes the game in a special steel book case, the Journal of Master Gnost-Dural, Collector’s Edition Soundtrack, Galaxy Map poster, security authenticator, and of course the Darth Malgus statue by Gentle Giant. Unfortunately our video is cut off midway through as the device ran out of storage space, but we’re hoping the number of images in the gallery will make up for what we didn’t get to show off in the video. Check it all out below.

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Keeping with their promise of an update each week, new screenshots have been revealed on the official site. Of course they are added too our gallery as well. Fans should be pleased with this batch of shots as they are definitely starting to look better. The lightsabers are noticeably smaller and the pictured Jedi and Sith are wearing more familiar outfits. You can check out all the new screenshots in our gallery.