• Interview

    A Talk with LucasArts: On Plagues, Reviews and Internal Development

    When I spoke to Haden Blackman, executive producer of The Force Unleashed, last month about the upcoming new level of the Star Wars game he told me that they are considering giving players new force powers down the line as part of a downloadable content pack.

    But what interested me more were the cut force powers.

    "We implemented more force powers than we shipped with," Blackman told me. "We removed some because of consumer feed back. There were too many in the game and (the force) started getting watered down.

    "We do have other ones we could go back to look at."

    While Blackman declined to list out the cut force powers, I did manage to get him to talk about one of the cut powers he particularly liked. More »

    12:30 PM on Fri Oct 3 2008
    By Brian Crecente
    12,550 views, 89 comments

    Most discussed MASOCHIST187: I really liked this game. I'm curious, for those who think the targeting was so bad, what system do you more »

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    The Force Unleashed On Everything Mobile

    THQ today announces that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is now available on mobile handsets the world over. This includes the iPhone, where it has been lurking for quite awhile, Nokia's N-Gage gaming platform, and more than 850 different cellular handsets. Should you pick it up? Well Star Wars plus iPhone equals extra nerd chic of course, and Star Wars plus N-Gage equals you might as well, you obviously went out of your way for an N-Gage platform supporting phone.

    As for the remaining 850 handsets, this is a good time to check and see if your phone needs upgrading. If yours isn't one of the 850 you obviously need to step up to a newer model, unless that military field phone is part of your whole campy, retro vibe. More »

    11:40 AM on Mon Sep 29 2008
    By Mike Fahey
    10,249 views, 36 comments

    Most discussed Testamonium: Am I the only person left under the age of 30 who doesn't play cell phone games? I just more »

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    Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Selling By The Bantha-load

    Over 1.5 million copies of Star Wars:TFU have been shifted since the game launched last week, making it the fastest-selling Star Wars game of all time.

    Actually, is that such a great record? Hard to tell without knowing the other figures for context - anyway, it has sold a lot and that is good.

    LucasArts say that the initial publishing run of 4.3 million copies is unlikely to last long, and the game is going into a a second 'printing' earlier than expected.

    Full details after the jump More »

    5:20 PM on Tue Sep 23 2008
    By Stuart Houghton
    9,752 views, 121 comments

  • Round Up

    Frankenreview: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

    When LucasArts first announced Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the game where continuity is tussled in order to introduce a secret apprentice to Darth Vader, gamers were excited, and hardcore Star Wars fans were a little outraged. Star Wars continuity is not something you want to screw with unless you're George Lucas himself, and even then they're not too sure about it. Now time has passed, emotions have settled somewhat, and what is essentially the next installment of the epic Star Wars story is upon us. Has LucasArts managed to appease both gamers and Star Wars junkies, or have they left both groups out in the cold? The game critics tally midi-chlorians, after the jump. More »

    12:30 PM on Wed Sep 17 2008
    By Mike Fahey
    30,964 views, 167 comments

    Most discussed Kidd: This game is garbage. Terribly clunky controls. Poor, sometimes even awkward writing. Buggy. Doesn't push the boundries of anything like it more »

  • Review

    The Force Unleashed Review: As If Millions of Star Wars Fans Suddenly Cried Out

    In many ways Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is more than just a game, it is a chance for George Lucas and the team at LucasArts to tie up a lot of loose ends, string together the gap between the films Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It's also another chance, perhaps the greatest since Jedi Knight, to let gamers tap fully into The Force in all of its deadly nuance.

    Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, packed with new AI and physics technology and a story written by Haden Blackman, certainly has potential, but is The Force with this game? More »

    12:00 PM on Tue Sep 16 2008
    By Brian Crecente
    66,653 views, 228 comments

    Most discussed RockerX: h. Hll. Ys. Tht Str Dstryr lvl s mg pn n th ss! thr thn th stry, ths gm s more »

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    Game Ads Show Up In The Darndest Places

    If you weren't already aware that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was available at retail starting tomorrow, September 16th, you're not only skilled at avoiding media blitzes, you haven't checked your Major League Baseball team of choice's upcoming schedule. Nestled within the calendar of upcoming baseball games of every MLB team is a friendly reminder from Lord Darth Vader. That's right, jocks! We're invading ur baseball schedules, creeping you out with our sci-fi nerdiness!

    This is a brave step in advertising, capitalizing on heretofore untapped tiny blank squares. Thanks, geekgrrl!

    7:30 PM on Mon Sep 15 2008
    By Michael McWhertor
    6,942 views, 46 comments

    Most discussed y2julio: Dodgers?? Ewwww. Go Mets!!! more »

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    Loads Of People Downloaded The Force Unleashed Demo

    And here we were thinking people had lost interest in Star Wars games. And here you are, proving that even the most mistreated fans will flock back to George Lucas' wrinkled, cash-soaked bosom (or at least have a quick test suckle). Lucasarts announced yesterday that over a million people have downloaded the Force Unleashed demo for the 360, a figure that apparently set a new speed record for the console (fastest to 1 million downloads, which it hit in eight days). Over 1.3 million people downloaded the demo on the PS3. That gives us a grand total of 2.3 million downloads. For a week and a half, that's a lot. Course, it'll all be for naught if you all thought the game was a bit shit and don't buy it, but hey, we're talking the past here, not the future.

    5:30 AM on Thu Sep 11 2008
    By Luke Plunkett
    5,342 views, 146 comments

    Most discussed CubemonkeyNYC: I have no idea what people were expecting from this, but I thought it was exactly what it was supposed more »

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    Party With the Cast of Star Wars Unleashed

    The Secret Apprentice, Maris Brood and Rahm Kota will be hanging out at the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed party later this month when the game hits shelves.

    The group of voice actors for the upcoming game will be joining some of the title's development team at the Best Buy in San Francisco (1717 Harrison Street) on Monday, Sept. 15 to celebrate the game's release.

    The event will run from 7 p.m. to midnight and will also give gamers a change to play the game and have their photos taken with "some of their favorite Star Wars characters." That better be a confirmation of Wookie. More »

    4:00 PM on Fri Sep 5 2008
    By Brian Crecente
    3,459 views, 19 comments

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    Force Unleashed: The Book Tops NY Times Best-Sellers List

    Early reviews are in for Force Unleashed (the game), and at this (early!) stage things aren't looking as good as Lucasarts would have hoped. If that scoring trend continues, the game will sell a few copies (if only for the branding), yeah, but it won't set the world on fire like the company were probably banking on. Ah well. Least the book's doing well! Force Unleashed the novel topped the New York Times best-sellers list for hardcover fiction over the weekend. So, are Star Wars novels taken more seriously by their creators than Star Wars games? Or are SW book lovers just suckers? Who knows! Could be all of the above.

    Star Wars Book Tops NY Times Bestsellers List [GameDaily]

    4:30 AM on Thu Sep 4 2008
    By Luke Plunkett
    2,895 views, 57 comments

    Most discussed denki: "A Jedi uses the force for knowledge and defence, never for attack." Something that everything since RotJ has thrown out the more »

  • Trade-In Values

    EB Canada Offers Hazy Force Unleashed Buyback Guarantee

    You may remember back in March, when EBGameStop announced a too good to be true buyback program of sorts for the PLayStation 3 title Haze, in which they offered gamers a chance to trade-in the title for full purchase price in case they didn't enjoy the game. Fortunately for GameStop, Ubisoft pulled the emergency brake on that deal, but now GameStop Canada has brought back their gaming guarantee, only this time for a title that might not suck. Players picking up Star Wars: The Force Unleashed within seven days of release have a week to return the title for full-price store credit should they dislike the game, or beat it early.

    I'm not seeing anything about this program outside of Canada, which is probably due to the fact that GameStop knows those friendly Canadians are just too gosh-darn polite to take advantage, while in the states they'd have 50% of their inventory back by Friday.

    Star Wars: The Force Unleashed [EBGames Canada via NextGenPLayer - Thanks Dave!]

    8:30 AM on Mon Aug 18 2008
    By Mike Fahey
    6,008 views, 68 comments

    Latest by 7ruthslayer: @NeVeRMoRe666: Yes, I live in Ed, so I don't see why we couldn't compete against each other. more »

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