A few weeks ago the Darth Hater team descended on E3 with a ravenous desire to learn about Star Wars: The Old Republic. With so many hands on deck, we were able to gather large quantities of data for the TOR fan community, and we shared much of this information in our articles, a group podcast, and even a packed live Q&A. The best part of this entire experience is that, after all of our coverage, there is still more to share.

Sean Dahlberg sends word that Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ won the Best RPG category on the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 list:


Congratulations to BioWare and LucasArts on the award.

We are back from over an hour and a half playing 6 of the 8 classes in Star Wars: The Old Republic, not including Jedi Knight and Jedi Consular. All official videos are posted on our YouTube channel. Although we will have more specific information about the classes shortly, we first wanted to give you a heads-up on some of our findings after the jump.

Updated: June 30 @ 5:40 PM EST

In the Gaming Industry stream numbers, along with other metrics, are often used to gauge the interest level of a game before launch. For those interested in the stream numbers pertaining to Star Wars: The Old Republic during E3, we have a chart from Electronic Entertainment Design and Research:


It appears Star Wars: The Old Republic did very well. ;)

Our dissection of the Star Wars: The Old Republic content released during E3 is now online. As in our prior dissections, we will add new content in as we find it, so keep checking back. Feel free to let us know if you notice something we missed, and we will be happy to add it to our dissection with credit. Note: If something is mentioned in a prior dissection, then we do not reiterate it again here. Low bandwidth users should note there are numerous images contained in this article.

BioWare's Sean Dahlberg soothed some community worries about class-restricted species, wrapped up the reveals of the week, and waxed poetic about the ups and downs of E3:

In regards to the delay of this week's update, we sympathize with Sean Dahlberg of BioWare regarding post-E3 travel:


Two new screenshots of a male Twi'lek Smuggler and a female Chiss Imperial Agent are on the official site, while the rest are the War Zone shots that were part of the E3 press package. Also, we were treated to the latest issue of Blood of The Empire.

In our own Hater version of Fan Friday, a reader submitted their recreation of the Deceived trailer that we had to share with you:


Lots of yellow text after the jump...

Rob Chestney commented in this thread concerning the "Tank, healer, DPS paradigm" in an attempt to clarify some misconceptions about the demo shown at E3.

Click below to read the full post.

We were honored to gain more insight regarding class design, group sizes, character progression, and other topics from James Ohlen, Creative Director and Lead Designer of Star Wars: The Old Republic™. As the game is still under development, we must warn you that some specifics mentioned about particular systems are subject to change after undergoing significant testing. An example of this is the combat systems for the Trooper changing to become something more fitting to the class in almost three months between our hands-on game play sessions, and the mysterious disappearance of double bladed lightsabers in the Sith Warrior HoloNet outfitting screenshots.

For the reason behind the latter and more, read on.

We had the pleasure to interview Daniel Erickson of BioWare about companions, warzones, player ships, party dynamics, and more.


The video portion is above, and the transcription is after the jump. Enjoy.

A Gametrailers interview with Daniel Erickson at E3 went up recently. Although the video is rather short and covers some material already mentioned, it does contain some new elements talking about overarching story. Listen at about 2 minutes on for the new info. Link to the video is below.

Gametrailers Interview with Daniel Erickson.

Highlights

For those interested, IGN will be doing a live review of Star Wars: The Old Republic at E3. It will air at 6:40pm EDT, 3:40pm PDT, or 11:40pm GMT. It will be 20 min review. The link is posted below.

IGN Live at E3

Update: The interview was short but we were able to get a few things from it below.

Highlights