Star Wars: The Old Republic Articles

Last week we reported on the first details and images of Star Wars: The Old Republic's sixth class: the Imperial Agent. Today, the official SW:TOR website has updated the HoloNet section with the full Imperial Agent reveal.

Threat of Peace #19 is now available on the Star Wars: The Old Republic website, with this latest entry marking the beginning of Act 3. In Threat of Peace #19 the Bounty Hunter Braden returns from Coruscant and reports in to Nok Drayen to receive his new orders. On the Republic side, Lieutenant Tavus meets with Jedi Knight Fortris Gall on Dantooine.

The Imperial Agent has been revealed as the sixth class for Star Wars: The Old Republic at a recent European press event. Today, the new class has been officially confirmed on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums, with its HoloNet entry to be published next week. In addition to today's confirmation, IncGamers has the very first set of screenshots of the Imperial Agent.

Star Wars: The Old Republic Senior Writer Drew Karpyshyn discusses writing for the recently reveealed Jedi Knight class in this latest Developer Diary.

The folks over at New Jedi Order Encyclopedia have uncovered a listing (including ISBN) for a Star Wars: The Old Republic novel by author Sean Williams.

As we reported earlier this week, we kind of knew this one was coming. But while this news may not be surprising for many of us, the Jedi Knight has been officially revealed today as this week's Friday Update.

The folks at DarthHater have uncovered some pretty convincing evidence to support the claim that the Jedi Knight class will be next to be revealed, likely as this Friday's update. Star Wars: The Old Republic community sleuths have discovered a number of images depicting the Jedi Knight class, and today, the Jedi Knight HoloNet animation has also been revealed. I'm willing to bet this is no mind trick!

Lance Henriksen reprises his role as Jedi Master Gnost-Dural in this latest holorecord entry to the Jedi Archive. The new entry, entitled, "The Battle of Bothawui," details a watershed event for the Republic in the war, as the Republic forces score a major victory against the Sith Empire on Bothawui. This victory served to rally Republic forces to fight with renewed hope and courage.

This latest issue of Threat of Peace marks the series' 18th entry. Threat of Peace #18 follows Jedi Master Orgus Din as he departs Balmorra to pursue the Bounty Hunter Braden, a suspect in the Senate Tower bombing. On Korriban, Lord Baras survives an assassination attempt, and Jedi Knight Fortris Gall teams up with Lieutenant Tavus on Dantooine.

Steven Crews of the MMOGamer got a chance to sit down with BioWare's Blaine Christine, Producer on Star Wars: The Old Republic for an interview that sheds some light on some of the game's more controversial aspects.

A new planet joins the roster of planets announced for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Today, the planet Balmorra was unveiled, along with four new screenshots and pieces of concept art.

A new video has surfaced on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic website for information starved TOR fans everywhere to check out. The new video is a developer dispatch giving us a behind the scenes look at what went into creating the planet wide super metropolis Coruscant.

As part of this Friday's update, Issue #17 of the Threat of Peace webcomic is now available on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic website.

This week's Friday Update is a Developer Blog entitled "The Story of the Sith Warrior". As you might imagine, we learn about what went into the process of writing the story for the Sith Warrior class.

Some of the gumshoes in the Star Wars: The Old Republic community have dug up some interesting language in the Terms of Service agreement included with the application of the recently announced Game Testing program. The language present in the agreement may allude to the existence of an in-game shop aka microtransactions in The Old Republic.