Star Wars Outlaws

Play it on: PC, PS5, Xbox X/S
Buy it from: Amazon | Ubisoft | Best Buy
Current goal: Actually start playing

I’ve had a copy of Star Wars Outlaws since Tuesday. Also since Tuesday, I’ve taken on board an unfriendly little virus called covid, an unwanted piece of swag brought home from last week’s Gamescom in Germany. The two are not compatible. I have singularly complained in bed all my British mornings, moaned through my Kotaku shift, then gone back to full-time horizontal moaning and complaining until sleep. There’s no room for trying to coordinate my brain to both sit upright and manipulate a gamepad with all my energy consumed by moaning.

But today is the first day I’ve not felt like I’m currently being slow-motion run over by a leaking garbage truck, and instead merely suffer a monstrously heavy cold—as such I feel that before I return to moaning, I might be able to squeeze in a couple of hours of couch gaming. And then this weekend? Who knows?!

Although I confess there’s an equally high chance that I just go back to bed and play something unbelievably dumb on my tablet—perhaps a ghastly “free” hidden object game that wants me to pay money to find umbrellas—and return next week a moaning failure.—John Walker