Star Wars

This Official Star Wars Keycap Set Leans Towards The Dark Side

I find your lack of custom keycaps disturbing? No. These are the keycaps you’re looking for? Only Imperial Stormtroopers type so precise? I’ll figure this out. In the meantime, the first officially-licensed Star Wars keycap set is going up for sale. NovelKeys, home of the giant mechanical keyboard switch, has teamed up with Disney and…

Hello there, Battle of Geonosis. The Attack of the Clones finale is being added to Battlefront II on November 28, along with a bunch of customisation options for Obi-Wan, General Grievous and some Clone Troopers.

Building A Better Star Wars Action Figure

Picking up an action figure of your favorite character at the store is all well and good, but what if you could spend several hours assembling one from scratch? Putting together these Star Wars character kits from Bandai and Bluefin is a lot more fun than it sounds. When I was a child, my father…

Star Wars: KOTOR Fan Remake Shutting Down After Cease And Desist From Lucasfilm

Back in 2016, an ambitious group of fans began work on an Unreal Engine 4 “reboot” of role-playing, light-sabering classic Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic called Apeiron. The project has made impressive progress since then, but it emitted a tragic Wilhelm scream this week when Lucasfilm lawyers zapped it out of existence. As…

New Darth Vader Game Is Coming To Oculus VR [Update]

Vader Immortal is a new series of virtual reality games coming to the just-announced Oculus Quest headset. Here’s the trailer: Not much to go on there, other than the fact it looks like you’re playing as some scmuck who gets kidnapped by Darth Vader then forced into some kind of Indentured Sith Apprenticeship Scheme. The…

K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Lightsaber

Yes, that Star Wars—the one from a galaxy far, far away—made a K-Pop song. Lightsaber, a 2015 song by EXO, was released for the purposes of marketing Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Asian countries, where the intellectual property didn’t have as much pull as it does in America. (It still doesn’t, really; do a…

The Witcher Meets Star Wars In A Well-Edited Fan Video

Back in 2015, Kirk Hamilton floated a “crackpot theory” that Ciri from The Witcher III told a tale of traveling to the world of CD Projekt Red’s upcoming Cyberpunk 2077. What if he was wrong? What if she traveled to a galaxy far, far away? YouTuber Tolkfan has edited together a spiffy little video that…

Star Wars’ Board Game Miniatures Are Out Of Control

If there’s one thing repeated Kickstarter successes have proven, it’s that board gamers love little plastic miniatures. And if there’s one thing they love more than little plastic miniatures, it’s bigger plastic miniatures. Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars: Armada has made its money appealing specifically to that sentiment, with the quality and scale of its model…

Delayed Battlefront II Fix Leads To Monthlong Fan Fiasco

The makers of Star Wars Battlefront II will restore Emperor Palpatine to the game a little over a month after they removed him. That will cap several weeks of online discussion about how long an announced “hotfix” should take and just what a game studio and a fandom should do when the community manager is…

‘Shop Contest: Palpatine Deserves To Be Everywhere, Winners!

Emperor Palpatine isn’t getting the respect he deserves, so last week I asked you to put the evil-ass Sith Lord in basically everything that you could. I was not [evil voice] disappointed Palpatine is often known as “that wrinkly guy” or “the evil Star Wars fella,” but true Star Wars fans who had to live…

The Last Jedi, You Look Different

A group of large adult babies wants to remake The Last Jedi, because waaaah waaaah. To help get their unofficial project started, maybe give them some ideas, artist Fernando Reza has made (and made fun of them with) this poster. You can buy it here. It is perfection.

Solo Was A Good-Lookin’ Movie

I really liked Solo! What I liked most—and don’t let this appearing in a concept art feature shock you—was how good it looked, how Star Wars everything was, from Corellia to the Kessel Run. One of the people to thank for that is Finnian MacManus, an artist we’ve featured before here on Fine Art. But…

Huge Chewbacca-Themed Statue In Japan

Is this the biggest Chewbacca-themed statue in the world? Today in Nagoya, a tall Chewie was unveiled. This is for Solo’s Japanese release The statue, however, is always up, but not decked out like Chewbacca. Called Nana-chan ningyou (“Nana-chan doll”), this is a huge mannequin located in front of Nagoya’s Meitetsu Department Store Since 1973,…

Everything EA Showed At E3 2018

This morning in Los Angeles, Electronic Arts kicked off E3 2018 with a press conference in which they announced a new Star Wars game, an Unravel sequel, and took a longer look at BioWare’s upcoming RPG Anthem, which is out next February. It was a straightforward way to begin E3: light on major news, with…

Respawn’s Star Wars Game Is Called Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 

Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind the awesome Titanfall 2, shared details on their upcoming Star Wars project today at the EA Play press conference. It will be called Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and take place during the time between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope Speaking at the EA Play conference, Respawn CEO…

A Darth Vader Costume Made From Cardboard 

Notebook maker Showa Note doesn’t only make school supplies. It also makes cardboard costumes. Previously, Kotaku featured its Dragon Ball Z and samurai outfits. Today, it’s time to show off Showa Note’s upcoming Darth Vader costume. The made-in-Japan outfit goes on sale this fall for 3,980 yen ($36.38). No word yet on an international release. Kotaku…

What We Liked (And Didn’t Like) About Solo

There’s a new Star Wars out, have you seen it yet? It’s more likely than ever that the answer is “no.” Solo: A Star Wars Story, the origin tale of everyone’s favorite stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder, has been struggling hard at the box office since its release on May 25. What’s behind the audience…

And Now For Some Excellent Solo Cosplay

Here’s Sunjiwith one heck of a Han Solo/Alden Ehrenreich smirk. Photos by kmitenkova

Solo Has A Weird Little Video Game Easter Egg

Spoilers here, obviously. So there’s a scene in Solo where Emelia Clark, playing Han’s former flame Qi’ra, shows she’s a lot more dangerous than first thought by handing out a brutal beatdown to a bad guy. That eventually happens a lot in the movie, so whatever, but it’s memorable the first time she does it…

Battlefront II Developers Answer Fan Pleas To Change Some Holograms

Sometimes it’s the little things that bug players. And sometimes those little things are worth fixing. That’s the case with Battlefront II, a game with a playerbase that’s been frustrated by microtransactions and a lack of new content but at least has had their call answered to get rid of the holograms in the game’s…