Sith or Nazi?

Kathy’s back from being out of town and we celebrate by having Roxanne compare things to Nazis and spread baseless rumors about who’s picking up the tab at the fansite cantina event.  Speaking of cantinas, we hope actual social spaces like cantinas will replace fake social spaces like the mailbox in our Community Buzz discussion.

Fact or Fiction: Can you pick out the confirmed fact from the tall tales?  This week’s host challenge involves crew skills, class balance, and PAX East.

From the Newsnet & Beyond: Roundup of the most important announcements and news.

* Friday Update 2/11: Timeline, “The Great Hyperspace War.”  Jedis believe in genocide!

* Friday Update 2/18: Studio Insider, “Sith Temple Concept Design.”

* Friday Update 2/18: Fan Friday, Community Q&A, Fan Site Spotlight on Mos Eisley Radio, polls.

* Friday Update: 2/25: Developer blog, Blaine Christine’s “Living the Life of a Live Producer.” Working at BioWare Austin is like working in a combination of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and Disneyland!

* Damion Schubert interview with Ask A Jedi.  Companions can’t be killed on missions, but they might screw it up and lose your money.  Full article here.

* The Doctors at DICE 2011.  Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk face-off with Blizzard’s Mike Morhaine….and everyone is really nice to each other.  Read Gamespot article here.  Watch Gamespot video interview here.  Read Gameindustry.biz article here.

* “SW:TOR Graphics Evolution & Comparison” video by logun24x7.  Terrific side by side comparisons of old TOR graphics to latest graphics, plus comparison to other current MMOs.  A second video showing off the run/walk animations is also worth a look.

* “New” Fansite Agreement.  Well, not really new, but BioWare is starting to ask the sites to be in compliance.  Thanks to Guild Launch for their sponsorship, sorry we had to say goodbye.

* Georg Zoeller confuses us with his talk of Guardian DPS “option.”  Read here and here.

* PAX East!  March 11-13 in Boston, MA.