Guild Beta Testing Underway + Release Date Hiding In Plain Sight?

Thanks to TORSyndicate’s recent chat with BioWare’s Dynamic Community Duo Stephen Reid and David Bass, we learned that guild beta testing of Star Wars: The Old Republic will be starting soon!

David Bass: In addition to Phase 2, we’re also going to be starting up a guild testing program. We’re obviously continuing to expand our invites for testing and we’re going to start including guilds in that list.

And now, thanks to Twitter it’s been confirmed that guild testing is indeed underway!

David Bass: Yes, #swtor Guild Testing has started. We’ll make a post soon with all the details. Please do not contact any of us with invite requests :)

This is no doubt a huge milestone in the development and testing process for TOR!

So let this serve as fair warning for guilds anxious to test Star Wars: The Old Republic to stay tuned to the official forums, Twitter, fan sites and maybe even CNN to get the information you need to get your guild on the invite list!

In other, non-related news, Stephen Reid posted some pics from the gamescom show floor this morning, and we thought we saw something suspicious etched on the hand of European Community Manager Chris Collins, so we took a closer look.

Shockingly, we learned those sneaky devils were hiding the juiciest piece of information in PLAIN SIGHT! Behold our discovery of the release date for Star Wars: The Old Republic in the diagram below!

Release Date Reveal? Click to embiggen!

Stay tuned for gamescom coverage from Ask A Jedi all week long, beginning Tuesday at 10AM EDT with the EA Press Conference right here!