This week's friday update is the E3 Multiplayer Game Play Demo:


Sean Dahlberg gives further insight about the video:


Working Dissection after the jump.

Last Updated: July 3 @ 1:22 PM EST

BioWare offered a really packed Friday Update this week, and included several announcements. First up, they announced the premiere issue of Blood of the Empire, the new webcomic:


And the latest Video Documentary, Combat in The Old Republic, is now available on the official site:


BioWare's Sean Dahlberg was also busy putting up some new polls on the official site, and announced a Fan Friday. This one included a ton of fan-created art, new forum avatars, a Developer Corner featuring a screenshot of a taxi and a video of Belsavis(?) focusing on environmental design with ZOMG WATER EFFECTS:


More after the jump.

Here is Darth Hater's dissection of the latest Video Documentary from Star Wars: The Old Republic, which focuses largely on Combat. 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.


Last Updated: April 26, 2010 @ 3:00 PM EDT

The Star Wars: The Old Republic Fatal Alliance cover image definitely sparked our interest at STARWARS.com:


The site also states the scheduled release date for the Sean Williams novel is July 20, 2010.

In other news, the official SWTOR Twitter hinted we might see a new video documentary in tomorrow's update:


Although some of us mistakenly thought it was Return to Taris because we think the Developer Dispatches are indeed documentaries, the correct answer is Video Documentary #3 -- released on July 17, 2009.

Update after the jump

It's a bit too early to tell on this but it is quite interesting the way that this NPC seen in the Coruscant developer dispatch video seems to have control over this creature:


This is obviously pure speculation right now but this is the first time that we have seen a creature in close proximity to an NPC or player without them fighting it at the time almost as if it were the person's creature. I can't wait to get my hands on the high-res version of the video to get a better look at this in the future.

Though the article reveals nothing new from what we have known for some time it is nice to have confirmation on one of the items that we speculated on in our first dissection:


Hat tip to Chillinvillain.

As promised here's our video version of the developer Q&A day 1. Embeds and direct links to the downloadable versions of the video after the jump.

We now have an HD version of our Coruscant trailer shown a few days back. Enjoy :)


Direct link to the HD download version of this reveal.

Gamespot has uploaded a high resolution version of the Coruscant reveal trailer we posted earlier. This version of the trailer is a bit higher quality than the one we posted. Even now after more than ten times of watching this reveal it is still just as impressive.

As promised here is the entire 2nd day gameplay demo that was shown at PAX. This is the demo where the trooper class, seen earlier in our other video, is shown in great detail. Check below for the Youtube embed and direct download link. Enjoy.

Today's last and final demonstration of the PAX Star Wars: The Old Republic demo shows off trooper gameplay footage. Oh also - /dance confirmed in this demo We also got to see a little glimpse of the death/respawn system - RETURN TO MEDCENTER is the death option in the demo when the person demoing the game died. We are hoping to have the full gameplay demo video up today if everything goes well with the bandwidth at PAX.

Youtube Embed:


UPDATE: The trooper video is now up for torrent download. Youtube embed above now up. Youtube also just parsed it into HD so everything should be good there.

We will be covering the third question and answer session with the developers live over UStream today from 1-2PM PST (4-5PM EST - World Clock for your time zone).We would like to invite you to join us on UStream to interact with us and developers during this question and answer session. Your question, if asked in UStream, could be answered by the developers. If you miss the live broadcast, don't worry. We will have an archived version of the video up after the Q&A ends. This live Q&A UStream session is being hosted by the Darth Hater crew at PAX (Pete and Sleeper) with permission from Bioware.
[Link] for the live feed. (Now over)

Embed links after the jump, click read more for the videos of the Q&A.