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Darth Vader has finally found a surveillance system worthy of the Galactic Empire. Unfortunately for the Empire, the whole thing was satire. A man dressed as the Dark Lord of the Sith appeared before San Diego’s Public Safety Committee on August 19 and delivered an enthusiastic Star Wars-themed endorsement of the city’s controversial Flock surveillance technology. He approached the microphone in…
Star Wars has developed an unusual problem after nearly fifty years. Almost everybody loves Star Wars. They just do not necessarily love the same Star Wars. Dave Filoni, now President and Chief Creative Officer of Lucasfilm, has offered one of the clearest explanations yet of how he thinks about that challenge. Speaking during the Disney Worldbuilders presentation at D23, Filoni pointed to the…
Star Wars: Galactic Racer takes place after the Empire has fallen. Apparently, that was not chosen simply because somebody at Lucasfilm wanted to park another broken Star Destroyer on Jakku. Fuse Games has revealed that the idea behind the Galactic League was partly inspired by the real-world boom in motorsport after World War II, when experienced military pilots, powerful machinery and rapidly…
Eighteen years ago today, Star Wars fans were given a very simple assignment. Download roughly a gigabyte of data, enter a TIE Fighter factory and start throwing Imperial employees into machinery. On August 21, 2008, LucasArts released the playable demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, giving players their first chance to experience Starkiller’s deliberately…
SWTOR has spent almost fifteen years giving veteran players reasons to accumulate increasingly absurd amounts of Legacy experience. Game Update 8.0 is finally giving some of that experience somewhere new to go. Broadsword has confirmed that SWTOR’s Legacy level cap will increase from 50 to 60 when Masters of the Force launches, bringing ten new Legacy levels and several new Character Perks. At the…
Ewan McGregor has been telling anyone who will listen that he wants to play Obi-Wan Kenobi again. Apparently that now includes the person currently running the creative side of Lucasfilm. McGregor has revealed that he personally floated a new Obi-Wan story to Dave Filoni, built around Kenobi trying to reconnect with Yoda during the years between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. The conversation…
Star Wars Zero Company is now exactly one week away, and Electronic Arts has answered one of the final practical questions before launch. When can we actually play it? The game will unlock simultaneously around the world on August 27 at 3:00 PM UTC, rather than rolling out region by region at midnight. That means players in Europe do not need to spend Thursday morning staring accusingly at a…
Seven years ago today, Star Wars Battlefront II was in a very different place from where it had started. The game that had launched into one of the biggest loot box controversies in gaming history was now announcing Clone Commandos, Felucia, four-player Co-Op, offline Instant Action, AI-controlled heroes and upcoming Rise of Skywalker content. On August 20, 2019, EA and DICE used Gamescom to…
Star Wars: Galactic Racer has crossed one of the last big milestones before release. Fuse Games has officially announced that Galactic Racer has gone gold, meaning the release version has reached the point where it is considered finished and ready for manufacture ahead of its October 6 launch. There will undoubtedly still be polishing, patches and somebody discovering that a podracer can become…
Darth Vader has survived lava, dismemberment, the destruction of the Jedi Order and several decades of Star Wars merchandise. He can probably survive another rumor. A new claim circulating online says Hayden Christensen is in the final stages of negotiating a multi-picture deal with Disney and Lucasfilm, with the biggest part of the rumor suggesting that a standalone Darth Vader movie is among the…
Star Wars Zero Company has spent months convincing us that squad composition matters. Clone Troopers. Mercenaries. Mandalorians. Force users. Specialists carefully selected for whatever dangerous mission Hawks has managed to acquire this week. Or you can apparently bring four Astromechs. The newly revealed achievement list contains a wonderfully named challenge called Angry Beeps, awarded for…
Fifteen years ago today, Star Wars: The Old Republic was still four months away from release, and BioWare had a small problem. Everyone knew SWTOR had dialogue, companions and enough fully voiced conversations to keep several recording studios employed until retirement. But was it actually an MMO? On August 19, 2011, Gamescom provided a fairly convincing answer. We published more than 20 minutes…
By 2008, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic had already conquered the Xbox, PC, comic shelves and a suspiciously large percentage of conversations about whether Revan could beat absolutely everyone else in Star Wars. Eighteen years ago today, it conquered the dining-room table as well. On August 19, 2008, Wizards of the Coast released two substantial Knights of the Old Republic products on the…
Star Wars Zero Company already has permadeath, wounds, percentage-based shots and enough opportunities to become emotionally attached to soldiers who may shortly be standing in entirely the wrong piece of cover. Apparently Bit Reactor looked at all of that and decided some players would still be insufficiently miserable. The newly published Zero Company trophy and achievement list reveals a…
Star Wars: Galactic Racer apparently does not believe choosing a character should merely determine whose face appears on the results screen. A newly surfaced Character Select screen from the current pre-release preview build shows at least 13 selectable racers, including several of the strange personalities we have been seeing throughout the game’s campaign material and one particularly familiar…
There was always an easy version of Star Wars: Galactic Racer. Remake Episode I: Racer. Bring back Sebulba. Make the engines louder. Give Tatooine enough modern lighting effects to melt a graphics card and allow everyone who owned the Nintendo 64 cartridge to discover that their reflexes have aged considerably less gracefully than their memories. Fuse Games has chosen something much stranger. When…
