Last week Eurogamer got its hands on exclusive screenshots from Star Wars: the Old Republic, an MMO in development by Bioware. These were more than ordinary screen caps of a galaxy far far away, no these revealed to us game mechanics, advanced classes. The original roster of classes in SWtOR is currently eight deep, but after yesterday’s news we can consider that doubled. The screenshots revealed a tree system branching off from the core class. The first advanced classes they revealed branch out from the Sith Warrior.

The first advanced class in tree is the Juggernaut, though in the screenshot it just says Advanced Class 1. Underneath that are two skill trees the player can chose from cleverly labeled Skill Set 1 and Skill Set 2. One hopes that in time these will all be assigned names

It was fall of 1998 and in my hands

Back in May of 2007 a good friend of mine, Arturis, sent me a link to a set of viral marketing sites. Both of us are huge suckers for puzzles, even more so for ones that awesome. This lead us on the trail of a secret Funcom had been keeping close to the vest. Over the next few days they released vague details