The Xbox Live site once again updates with a new level available for download for the popular CLONE WARS video game. RHEN VAR - CONTROL ZONE allows the gamer to take control of this snow-covered Republic outpost on Rhen Var by staying on the platform in the center of the map.  Head to Xbox.com for more info.

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The Xbox Live site updates with a new level available for download for the popular CLONE WARS video game. KASHYYYK - CONQUEST allows the gamer to battle for supremacy in the forest canyons of Kashyyyk. Head to Xbox.com for more info.

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TOS updated tonight with a look at Star Wars Insider #69. The issue will feature the Clone Wars (first reported here) including EPISODE II of Timothy Zahn's HEROES OF CARTAO TRILOGY, an interview with Paul Rudish, art director for the Clone Wars Animated Series, and a Clone Wars EU timeline. Check out the cool images of Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Asajj Ventress on the cover! To read more about this issue, head to Starwars.com.

Insider #69 ships to subscribers on June 27, and hits newsstands on July 15. Subscribe to Insider here.

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Best-selling author, Matthew Stover recently took time to answer a few of our questions.  Stover wrote the critically acclaimed New Jedi Order paperback, TRAITOR, and well as the recently released Clone Wars novel, SHATTERPOINT.

Read the interview here.

Stover's other works include THE BLADE OF TYSHALLE, HEROES DIE, IRON DAWN, and JERICHO MOON.

UPDATE: TF.N, JediNet, and SithClan.net have posted news stories on this interview.

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There was an updated Clone Wars timeline that printed in SHATTERPOINT. JEDI TRIAL ("The Praesitlyn Conquest") is placed at 30 months after the Battle of Geonosis. Our timeline has been updated to reflect this.

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Here are the stats of the book. It is 406 pages, divided into 3 sections. There are 23 chapters, all of which are named, plus an Introduction and an Afterward. There is also a nice timeline on the front inside cover. The same timeline is printed on the back inside cover.

Here's the inside text description from the book:

Mace Windu is a living legend: Jedi Master, senior member of the Jedi Council, skilled diplomat, devastating fighter. Some say he is the deadliest man alive. But he is a man of peace--and for the first time in a thousand years, the galaxy is at war.

Now, following the momentous events climaxing in the Battle of Geonosis, Master Mace Windu must undertake a perilous homecoming to his native world to defuse a potentially catastrophic crisis for the Republic ... and to confront a terrifying mystery with dire personal consequences.

The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, the homecoming Mace barely remembers, has become a battleground in the increasing hostilities between the Republic and the renegade Separatist movement. The Jedi Council has sent Depa Billaba--Mace's former Padawan and fellow Council member--to Haruun Kal to train the local tribesmen as a guerilla resistance force, to fight against the Separatist who control the planet and its strategic star system with their droid armies. But now the Separatists have pulled back, and Depa has not returned. The only clue to her disappearance is a cryptic recording left at the scene of a brutal massacre: a recording that hints of madness and murder, and of the darkness in the jungle ... a recording in Depa's own voice.

Mace Windu trained her. Only he can find her. Only he can learn what has changed her. Only he can stop her.

Jedi were never intended to be soldiers. But now they have no choice. Mace must journey alone into the most treacherous jungle in the galaxy--and into his own heritage. He will leave behind the Republic he serves, the civilation he believes in, everything but his passion for peace and his devotion to his former Padawan. And he will learn the terrible price that must be paid, when keepers of the peace are forced to make war...

I hope to have a summary of the "Crisis at Haruun Kal" posted soon. Happy reading!

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Vic Wertz recently alerted the fan community over at TOS forums that the theme for the next issue of Star Wars Insider (#69) will centered around the Clone Wars. He also mentions that we will get more news on the Clone Wars cartoon and some other new Clone Wars related items!

Insider #69 ships to subscribers on June 27, and hits newsstands on July 15. Subscribe to Insider here.

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Chrono Radio Episode IV "Games and Tokens" was released yesterday. In the episode I discuss diversity and racism in Star Wars, but I also gave a couple of quick plugs of this site. Head next door to the Chrono Radio site to download the episode.

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