Star Wars

The Star Wars Battlefront II Beta Shows EA Has Made Better Choices This Time

Star Wars Battlefront II’s multiplayer went into a semi-open beta today for players who preordered. I’ve spent most of the day blasting away. A few small changes from the previous game makes it much more focused and exciting to play. 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront felt fragmented at launch, thin on content and lacking the grand…

Players Slam Classic Star Wars: Battlefront 2 PC’s Servers After Online Multiplayer Returns

Do you have fond memories of playing the 2005 version of Star Wars: Battlefront 2? Do you wish with every fiber of your being that it had official online servers again? Well then, good news: your wish just came true, somehow. On both Steam and GOG, the PC version of the original Battlefront 2 has…

Be Nice If A Star Wars Game Looked Like This

BIGO is an artist from Brazil working in both video games and books. I love this Star Wars stuff. It looks like the best iOS game Disney never bothered to make. An XCOM-y adventure game that looked like this would change the world. You can see more of BIGO’s art at their ArtStationand Behancepages. To…

EA Has Charts To Show That This Year’s Star Wars Battlefront Is An Actual Full Game

EA, a company willing to level with you about the deficiencies of last year’s sports games when it is time to sell you this year’s, is coming clean about the inadequacies of 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront. A new trailer for the game’s November sequel makes clear that, yeah, that last game was more short on…

Star Wars Destiny is normally a trading card game (meaning you buy decks, ala Magic or Pokemon), but this new version bundles a bunch of characters and cards into a pre-loaded box designed specifically for two players.

New Star Wars Battlefront 2 Trailer Shows Off Dazzling Space Battles

The first look at the game’s Starfighter Assault mode has the Millennium Falcon, bright lens flares, and yes, Yoda manning a laser turret. The mode also appears to include Darth Vader and plenty of evil Sith, because what better way to use your super powered warriors than by putting them inside fragile space cans that…

Grand Moff Tarkin Toy Looks Better Than The Rogue One Version

Hot Toys have a couple of new Star Wars toys coming, one for Darth Vader, the other for his shift supervisor Grand Moff Tarkin. Both have existing Hot Toys figures, but these are new versions of them, featuring stuff like better head sculpts and fancier uniforms. Tarkin’s Peter Cushing is especially terrifying, with the wrist…

Edgar Allen Poe Dameron

Love it. Cosplay by Beth Grimes, photo by mnbookgeek

Star Wars Battlefront 2 will get a multiplayer beta in October, EA said today. It’ll be on all three platforms starting October 4 for pre-orderers (and October 6 for everyone else).

Star Wars Armada: The Corellian Conflict: The Kotaku Review

Star Wars Armada is a great gameto play every once in a while. But committing to play a lot of it in the name of an organised campaign is another story. The Corellian Conflict, released last year, is an attempt by Fantasy Flight to add a bit more weight to your fleet engagements by linking…

We’ve Finally Seen A Campaign Mission From Star Wars: Battlefront II

EA Play’s press conference was packed with thirty minutes of Star Wars: Battlefront II multiplayer but lots of people wanted to see the campaign. We did. After that showcase ended, I sat down to watch a developer-guided runthrough of an early story mission. The 15 minute sequence was full of dogfights, stealth takedowns, and laser…

Everything EA Announced At E3 2017

Electronic Arts just kicked off E3 2017 with an earlier than usual Saturday press conference. EA showed some Star Wars, some sports, some car chases, and a brand-new game from BioWare called Anthem. There was also a live drumline, in case you thought E3 needed more drumlines. EA didn’t announce much—the only two new games…

Our First Look At Star Wars Battlefront II’s Multiplayer In Action 

EA showed off some Battlefront II footage at today, and it looks awesome. According to EA boss Andrew Wilson, the developers considered all “constructive” criticism players had for the first game. They also claim BFII will have three times more content than the first game. As some of you already know, unlike the first game,…

$380 Millennium Falcon May As Well Be In The Movies

Bandai is releasing this 1/72 scale Millennium Falcon model kit that they “almost as precise and accurate” as the actual ones used in the filming of the classic trilogy. Seeing as the originals were themselves built using cannibalised model kit parts, and that the detail on this is astonishing, it doesn’t look like they’re kidding.…

At Least It’s Not Another Star Wars Collectible Card Game

There’s a new Star Wars game out on mobile today, and it doesn’t involve collecting characters, buying things in order to unlock characters or forming a party of collectible characters. At this point a match-three game like Star Wars: Puzzle Droids is kind of refreshing. As much as I like to ride on the lazier…

A Gold Darth Vader Helmet Costs Only $1.4 Million

For diehard Star Wars fans with deep pockets, there’s this: a solid gold Darth Vader helmet. According to Dengeki Hobby, the one-of-a-kind 24-karat Vader helmet weighs 33 pounds and goes on sale at Ginza Tanaka in Tokyo on May 4. Yours for a cool 154 million yen (US$1.4 million). The dark side of the Force?…

He’s Nice Men

Always nice to see Han Solo cosplay. Doubly nice when it’s old Han Solo, and everything from the hair to the dusty jacket is spot-on. Cosplay here by Wolverony, photo by HSL

Star Wars Battlefront II Is Written By Spec Ops: The Line‘s Writer And An Ex-IGN Reporter

Star Wars Battlefront II, which was officially announced last weekend, will give fans what they’ve wanted for two years now: Mitch Dyer. Also, a single-player campaign. To write this next Battlefront (not to be confused with the other Star Wars Battlefront II), EA hired Walt Williams, best known for his work writing the critically lauded…

EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II may not have a season pass, at least not one that relegates new maps to people who pay extra. “We don’t have a season pass,” the game’s creative director told Mashable. “We don’t want to segment our community.” Mashable says EA asked them to not report that, suggesting it was premature.

EA Officially Reveals Star Wars Battlefront II, Single-Player And All

Star Wars: Battlefront II is definitely happening and it will have a single-player story (if you still had any doubts). EA officially “announced” the game at this year’s Star Wars Celebration, showing off the game’s protagonist and aerial combat. It’ll be out this year on November 17 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The trailer…