There's an article format Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed Q&A on Warcry today, talking to SOE's Julio Torres about this recently released expansion pack.

LucasArts has released a new patch for Star Wars: Battlefront, updating the multiplayer shooter to version 1.11. Among other fixes and changes, the 61mb update adds the Tatooine Jabba's Palace map.

A new Star Wars: Battlefront dedicated server has been released, allowing Windows server admins without a retail copy of the game to run a server.

New at RPG Vault today is this five page Star Wars: Battlefront postmortem, or wrap report as they like to call it. Pandemic director Eric Giz Gewirtz writes about the development of this multi-platform multiplayer shooter.

Uh oh, LucasArts is working on another Star Wars real-time strategy game. Force Commander and Galactic Battlegrounds weren't exactly triple A titles, but perhaps the ex-Westwood guys at Petroglyph can do better. From a Q&A with LucasArts president Jim Ward (thanks Blues)

... and I think there's a bright future there for games based on these new properties as well as original "Star Wars" games like a new real-time strategy PC game that Petroglyph is developing for next year. This game will take the (real-time strategy) genre in a new direction and will balance gameplay between the hard-core gamers who buy these games and the broader audience that's familiar with the "Star Wars" brand.

The LucasArts Episide III - The Video Game website has been updated with a trailer from this third person action game in development at The Collective. Thanks Blues News.

As expected, LucasArts has released the 1.1 patch for Star Wars: Battlefront. The update improves AI, updates the server browser and improves game stability among other things.

LucasArts has released an updated dedicated server for Star Wars: Battlefront. The 1.1 release offers more options to tweak, and will work with the 1.1 client patch that's being released soon. Updated 3D Gamers.

A new development diary has been posted on the Star Wars Galaxies website, covering the imminent launch of the Jump to Lightspeed expansion pack.

HomeLAN Fed is the latest site with some impressions of Jump To Lightspeed, the Star Wars Galaxies expansion pack which is launching next week.

GameSpot and GameSpy both have their own Star Wars Galaxies: Jump To Lightspeed previews, offering impressions of this expansion pack that's launching soon. GameSpy also has a new development diary.

A new Star Wars: Battlefront patch has been released by LucasArts, updating the multiplayer shooter to v1.01. It changes two things since the 1.00a patch: "Corrects an issue with losing connection to the host after Task-Switching" and "Added planet names at Planet Loading Screen".

This LucasArts support page now has links to various international versions of the Star Wars Battlefront patch, also updating the game to 1.00a and fixing those NAT and server browser problems.

The first patch for Star Wars: Battlefront has been released, updating the game to 1.00a. The 2.7mb patch takes care of the following: Improves NAT negotiation for online games which may help improve multiplayer performance, Minor fix to server browser screen. Thanks 3D Gamers.

Just in time for the release of the game tomorrow, Windows dedicated server files for Star Wars: Battlefront are now available. Thanks CA Flynn.

This press release announces that several Best Buy stores around the country will have a special midnight launch of the Star Wars DVD set as well as Star Wars Battlefront. All of these events start at 10:30, with the DVDs & game going on sale at midnight. The Best Buy stores in question are in Baltimore, California, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, New York and Texas. Check here for details. Thanks HLF.

New on the Adrenaline Vault today is a Star Wars Battlefront Q&A. Executive producer Greg Borrud of Pandemic Studios answers questions about the history of the company, the singleplayer campaign, the variety in levels, different player classes, balancing, bots, and anti-cheat features in multiplay.

Some sad news for the PC fans of KOTOR. LucasArts sent out a press release announcing that while Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords will be shipping on Xbox this December, the PC version now isn't due until February.

There's a Star Wars Battlefront preview on HomeLAN Fed today, offering impressions of a near complete Xbox build of the game. There's also a preview on Silicon Fusion, and the Warcry spends a few words on it as well. Star Wars Battlefront went gold yesterday and will be in stores September 21.

LucasArts has announced that the multiplayer action game Star Wars Battlefront has gone gold, and will be on store shelves September 21st (day and date with the original trilogy on DVD). The Pandemic Studios developed game will be available on PC, Xbox and PS2.

Star Wars Battlefront is an intense open-ended single player and multiplayer action game set in the Star Wars universe that puts fans and gamers in the heat of the action as they re-live all of the epic battles from the classic and prequel eras. In the game, console and PC players can choose intense free-form multiplayer combat or a variety of robust single player modes including "Historical Campaigns" and "Galactic Conquest."