Edition 453 - July 11, 2012

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News, Events, & Reviews
Off-LJ Content (provided by biowarefeed)
Star Wars: The Old Republic
SWTOR Strategies with Pachter: "Subscription MMOs have peaked. If Star Wars couldn't do it, no-one can do it."
TORWars with Galaxy of Guilds - The 5th Column. 
Darth Hater with Column: OpsCom. 
TORWars with Open TOR Policy - All in the Family. 
SWTOR Strategies with SWTOR: True Server Merge Coming Later this Summer?
Strategy Informer with BioWare Launches SWTOR Free Trial, Play Up to Level 15. 
TORWars with TORWars Podcast #88: Companions We Love, Companions We Loathe. 

Mass Effect
Gamasutra with Current Platform Proliferation is Great for Developers says BioWare Mythic VP. 
Kotaku with The Evolution of Stars: The Unusual Astronomy of Mass Effect, Halo, and StarCraft II. 
BioWare Blog with ME3: Earth MP DLC. 
Action Figure Insider with San Diego Comic-Con 2012: Dark Horse Announces the Dark Horse-BioWare Store. 

Future Game/DLC Speculation
tersa posts about the upcoming ME3 MP Earth DLC. 

New Communities, Challenges, & Community Updates
me_challenge posts this week's Insanity Round.
mebigbang posts Artist Guidelines.
seimaisin announces a Dragon Age Big Bang hosted over at the new comm dragonagebb.

Fanfiction
Complete
Dragon Age
The Queen's Letters by sabrielrose [Anora/Calian, Anora/Alistair, F!Mahariel | T]

WIP
Dragon Age
Pick Your Card (Chapter 1) by thebirdlady [M!Hawke/Varric | G]


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