EA released a press statement about its upcoming GamesCom appearance that includes heavy Star Wars The Old Republic presence. Here’s the interesting part for SWTOR fans:

Five EA and EA Partner titles at gamescom have already received early recognition for their outstanding quality. The gamescom 2010 award nominations were announced today and include:

• FIFA 11 — Best Console
• Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ — Best Online and Best of gamescom
• Crysis(R) 2 — Best PC, Best of gamescom
• The Sims(TM) 3 console — Best Mobile title
• Rock Band(R) 3 instruments — Best Hardware

Another important thing to know is that there will be a Press Briefing on Tuesday, August 17th, at 4:00pm CET (that is 7am PST) held by Electronic Arts. A live stream of the press conference will be available at http://live-event.ea.com/gamescom/live/ . We’ll try and record it so you can view it at a more convenient time :).

News spotted at MarketWatch.

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