SOE has posted word on the official SWG website that a fan art gallery is now available for your viewing pleasure. The gallery is a great place for Fan Art connoisseurs and features art in all forms of medium, from digital imagery to hand painted originals. Check it out!

RPG Vault has a Star Wars Galaxies - Chapter 3: Smugglers and Scoundrels Q&A posted. They speak with LucasArts producer Jake Neri about this newly launched update. Topics include features added based on player suggestions, the brand new smuggling system. faction rankings, GUI improvemetns, and the reward system.

SOE has posted an update over at the offical SWG website which reminds player that there are constant updates to the player events calendar, and that players can even add their own events. Check it out.

The latest installment of Rogue 5's Comlink is posted over at the official SWG website. This episode deals with the upcoming "improvements" and changed in the upcoming issue 29.

The Star Wars Galaxies forums have some new information on the brand new rule changes that will affect the game. These new rules mainly concern the combat system, but there are some other things to note. Check it out.

SOE announced that other say that trading cards for the SOE SWG trading card game are now available. Not only are cards available for SWG, but they are available for all the SOE games, so grab them now.

SWG {ublish 28 is out, and there is now Player Bounty Hunting. This is a brand new way to experience PvP action with the addition of the player bounty system. Players can take out bounties on their opponents and Bounty Hunters will be tracking them down! Sounds cool in theory, let's hope it works in practice.

The SWG website has a breakdown of the new chagne duty ability. The ability allows players to change their factional duty status in the field. Previously, players had to visit a faction recruiter to change their duty status, but no more. This makes PvP combat much easier.

There will be a Star Wars Galaxies dev chat hosted by Stratics today at 5PM PDT. You can join the chat in IRC in the #StraticsHoC channel on the Stratics IRC network.

This week's Rogue 5's Comlink over at the SQG website is posted. This time aorund the subject is the new Expertise System. Apparently players are having enough trouble with it that SOE felt it needed to be esplained a bit more.