Del Rey is publishing tie-in novels for the eagerly anticipated MMORPG game Star Wars: The Old Republic from BioWare and LucasArts. The first book, Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance, by Sean Williams hit the New York Times best seller list and has been receiving rave reviews from fans. Next spring we follow up with a second book, Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived, by Paul S. Kemp. Del Rey announced at Star Wars Celebration V that Drew Karpyshyn, one of the lead writers of the game and author of the popular Darth Bane series of novels will write a third book in the Old Republic series.

Quite possibly the biggest news to come from Del Rey at Star Wars Celebration V was the announcement by Del Rey editor at large Shelly Shapiro and author Aaron Allston that he would be writing a new Wraith Squadron installment in the oh-so-popular Star Wars: X-Wing series of novels. The pair made the announcement at the beginning of the panel focusing on the current series, Fate of the Jedi, and the crowd erupted with applause and raucous cheers at the news.

Del Rey editor at large Shelly Shapiro announced to a large panel crowd at SWCV that the last book in the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi series would be titled Apocalypse.