Sean Dahlberg sends word of this week's updates:


In the latest developer blog, "Creating Worlds," Daniel Erickson goes into detail about the process behind creating Voss. He includes some of his notes collected during the process and expands on the sheer amount of documentation that is generated for each of the worlds created for the game.

In addition to the new developer blog, the Game Systems section of the official website has been launched. The Advanced Class System is the first entry in this new section.


This new section gives a summary of the concept behind the Advanced Classes and emphasizes how important choosing an Advanced Class will be in defining a player's character.

Images and things of note after the jump.

Today, Sean Dahlberg confirmed that the next issue of Blood of the Empire will be released on Friday, May 7th, as well as a new blog on the 14th.

Sean Dahlberg sends word of today's Star Wars: The Old Republic friday update:



Highlights of the Developer Blog after the jump.

This week's update is a Developer Blog. As Sean Dahlberg said:


After reading this blog, a few new people might be interested in playing a Jedi Consular. After you have finished reading this blog, feel free to check out our Afterlife Interview and our Timeline Synopsis if you haven't already.

The Friday update is live and it's time for future Sith Inquisitors to get another glimpse at their class of choice, this time from a writer's perspective. Sean Dahlberg posted about the update earlier today on the official forums, including a brief preview from the author of this developer blog, Rebecca Harwick.


More after the jump

Enjoy playing MadLibs in the DevBlog

Real time decoding:


We're going with Zoidberg's very good suggestion of DARTH ANDEDDU unless we can find something better... but Drew Karpyshyn mentions him in the Darth Bane books & there are a few blog entries mentioning him, so this is our strongest contender so far:


Happy New Year

(Special thanks to Ascendant, ProdigaLLL, and of course, those who participated in the constantly moving thread linked above)

The good graces at Bioware have been generous with us this week. Not only did we see the Agent released, but a developer blog and Threat of Peace were released.


For those of you that would like some links, here is the Blog and Threat of Peace. If you want to read everything on the latest update, here is the big news thread.

Looks like the forums are busy speculating about this week's Friday update again. Droopy_McKool spotted a nice little tidbit at Drew Karpyshyn blog:


This makes sense, as it is typical for BioWare to release a Developer Blog the first Friday of the month.

Today a developer blog was released regarding the Sith Warrior:


It is a nice little read that lets you know what is going on in the heads of the designers. Don't forget, they also have the testing signups as the update for the week.

Sean has updated on us on what tomorrow's update will be:

Today's developer blog is one from Hall Hood on the creation of the smuggler class:

Developer Blog #10 discussing voice over production work in Star Wars: The Old Republic with Shauna Perry is now online. It is quite an interesting blog to read for those looking to learn more about the way voice overs in video games get recorded and the people behind them. We found the most important thing of note (to us) in the article was a quote from Shauna Perry:


How much does that script weight in paper form? You could probably seriously or fatally hurt someone with that thing