During a developer panel at Comic-Con in San Diego, BioWare and LucasArts confirmed that their upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will include space combat.

The news was later corroborated on BioWare's official forum. Sean Dahlberg writes, “Space combat is an alternative gameplay experience to the primary game of storytelling, questing, and ground-based combat. In space combat, you fly your personal ship to various ‘hot spots’ on your galaxy map.

“From there, you will blast your way through asteroid fields, enemy fighters, frigates, destroyers, and a variety of other obstacles that will evoke memories of some of the great Star Wars space battles.

Our cruisers cannot repel news of that magnitude!

More information on SWTOR’s space combat will be revealed in the months ahead. In the meantime, why not check out our coverage of the game from E3 this year, including hands on time with the Bounty Hunter class, and an interview with the game’s lead writer, Daniel Erickson.