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Plenty of news this week, including the upcoming Community Cantina at SDCC, the interviews with Jesse Sky and Michael Backus, and what’s happening with Star Wars Battlefront and the second Star Wars anthology movie.

1. Introduction

The game Jeremy mentioned he is playing on his iPhone is Star Wars Commander.

Here is the spreadsheet that Chill created with his hours played across his many, many alts:

2. Tip of the week

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Daxxgar! Thanks to Cabuor, Draknir Darkknite, Tim M, Elion D, Bar’holomew, Bruzer, Aldò and GasGuy for entering.

Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Tuesday for a chance to win a Taunfawn or M8-3R droid code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.

3. Holofeed

• The next Community Cantina will be held in conjunction with San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) this Saturday (11 July). BioWare are asking for players to submit questions for its panel on the official forums and Reddit.
• In August, there will be a Community Cantina held in Cologne, Germany on 7 August in conjunction with Gamescom.
• EA published an interview with Jesse Sky about the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion.
• Joseph Bradford interviewed Michael Backus at E3.
• Courtney Woods has published the story Vacation, re-introducing Nico Okarr, the gunslinger companion all players will receive if they’re subscribed on 31 July.
• A number of guilds were affected by a player utilising social engineering to gain access to their guild banks.
• The comic Star Wars: Shattered Empire reveals what happened immediately following the events in Return of the Jedi.
• A second anthology movie, Han Solo’s origin story, will be released on 26 May 2017.

4. Community

You can find out more about Snave’s 1v1 tournament on The Red Eclipse here.

5. Force Feedback

6. Outro

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Jeremy (@Darksplat) and Charlie (@Kranitoko, youtube.com/KranitokoGames)

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

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