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Lego Star Wars Siege Of Takodana Lets You Play As The Bad Guys

Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens shows us another side of one of the movie’s pivotal moments in the new Siege of Takodana DLC. Join Kylo Ren and his Stormtrooper pals as they blow up a perfectly good sci-fi theme restaurant. While there’s a much better mission involving Kylo Ren and Captain Phasma included in…

By Mike Fahey Published October 27, 2016

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Empire Strikes Back Costume Melts Hearts Before It Reaches The First Marker

Custom motorcycle artist Clint Case made this Halloween costume for his son. It’s wonderful. Potentially grisly, depending on how many Wampas are left in the wild in the mainland United States, but wonderful nonetheless. Clint, if you can scrounge together the materials for an adult version, that’d be great, thanks. Via Laughing Squid

By Luke Plunkett Published October 17, 2016

The Final Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer

Well, this looks very good. Here is the second story trailer, apparently the final one before the movie gets its December release. I do imagine we’ll get a slightly recut international trailer (maybe Japanese?) with a few more seconds of new footage, but this should give you an idea of what to expect when it…

By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2016

BioWare Announces New Story Expansion For The Old Republic

Knights of the Eternal Throne, a new story heavy expansion for BioWare’s Star Wars MMO will release on December 2. It will continue the story set in the previous expansion, Knight of the Fallen Empire. The announcement featured one kickass trailer. The trailer focuses on Senya, a Knight of Zakuul and former wife of the…

By Heather Alexandra Published October 7, 2016

Lego Star Wars‘ Lame Explanation Of How Poe Survived Crashing On Jakku

Crash-landing on Jakku after escaping The Finalizer, rebellious Stormtrooper FN-2187 fears his newfound Resistance friend dead. But Poe Dameron survived to fight another day, and the latest Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens DLC explains how. It’s pretty dumb. There was much hyping of the special missions in Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens and…

By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2016

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How Can Love Be Wrong If It Feels So Right?

Some cosplayers just want to see the world burn. Leia is Galacticat, Riker is her boyfriend. Photo by Alexandra Lee Studios

By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2016

An Excellent 105-Minute Review Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

So, so many years after his now-famous reviews of the Star Wars prequels, Mr. Plinkett returns with some (well, many) thoughts on The Force Awakens. Among other things.

By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2016

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Keep Your Eyes Peeled For These Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Retailer Exclusives

Think yourRogue One: A Star Wars Story toy shopping adventure is over? Have you been to Kohl’s yet? How about Walgreens? Entertainment Earth? Here are six sets of retailer-exclusive Hasbro Star Wars toys to add to your shopping list. The shorter versions of Hasbro’s premium Star Wars Black line of figures are so much better than…

By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2016

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Star Wars Space Battle Has No Chill

Darren Tan is a freelance artist from Singapore who has done a lot of work for board game giants Fantasy Flight, and in particular their Star Wars titles. Below you’ll see some of Tan’s work for the company, from Armada (which is great) to X-Wing (also great) to the new card game Destiny You can…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 25, 2016

Star Wars: Uprising Is Coming To An End

Last year around this time, mobile developer Kabam and Disney released Star Wars: Uprising, a “dull Diablo clone” set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. It’s shutting down in November. As of yesterday, folks still playing Uprising for whatever reason can no longer make in-game purchases, and they’ve got…

By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2016

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The Dark Side Always Gets The Cooler Outfits

This is Miss Sinister (who we’ve featured before) as ass-kicking Star Wars witch Asajj Ventress. You can check out more of Miss Sinister’s work at her store page Costume fabrication by GSTQ Fashions and Monqiue Renee. Light sabers by Travis Wood, Pixel Bash Props and Zatcaskagoon. Electronics by Sublime Lightworks

By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2016

Players Celebrate As Star Wars Battlefront Cuts An Amusingly Controversial Feature

It’s rare that the removal of a feature from a video game makes fans of that game happy, but fans of Star Wars Battlefront seem pretty happy that, thanks to a new update, anyone playing as a Stormtrooper in the game is forced to keep their helmet on. “No more wretched storm troopers without helmets,”…

By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2016

The New Death Star DLC Makes Star Wars Battlefront More Interesting

The new paid Death Star expansion for Star Wars Battlefront won’t significantly alter the game’s reputation as a fairly casual shooter designed for quick, chaotic fun. But it does add an interesting three-stage mode that culminates with the possible destruction of the Death Star. That new mode at least makes a session with the game…

By Stephen Totilo Published September 20, 2016

Awesome X-Wing Miniatures Game Now Has A Campaign

The X-Wing miniatures game is very, very good. If there’s a complaint I have about it, though, it’s that there isn’t a campaign mode for more long-term play and…oh, wait, thanks to a very dedicated fan, now there is. Wonderful. First released in 2015, and created by Josh Derksen, Heroes of the Aturi Cluster is…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2016

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Star Wars Reimagined By The World’s Best Concept Artists

A little while ago, ArtStation ran a competition with Industrial Light & Magic asking some of the world’s best artists to “imagine key moments, new vehicle designs, character and droid designs, and epic battles within the Star Wars universe”. The winners have now been announced, and they are fantastic As you’d expect! The best entries…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2016

Star Wars Galaxies Is Dead, But These People Are Keeping It Alive

The ambitious MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies shut down servers in 2011 but the fan run servers of SWGEmu keeps an old version of the game alive. There are countless players still enjoying a game that officially died years ago. What brings people back to the galaxy far, far away after all this time? The emulated…

By Heather Alexandra Published September 13, 2016

The Unreal Engine 4 Recreation of Star Wars Looks Real Good

Jason Lewis, a senior environment artist for Obsidian Entertainment, started a personal project earlier this year that was meant to teach him the ins-and-outs of Unreal 4. That project soon ballooned, and other developers at Obsidian got involved in making what they’re calling an “interactive fan art piece.” As spotted by 80 Level, the recreation…

By Patricia Hernandez Published September 9, 2016

With Star Wars: Clone Wars, Dolphin Emulator Finally Boots All GameCube Games

Until recently, the folks behind the popular Dolphin GameCube and Wii emulator software have been able to run every GameCube game in the official Nintendo library save one: Star Wars: Clone Wars. Now it finally works. The Dolphin team has been tirelessly working to make the perfect GameCube emulator for years, rewriting and tweaking the…

By Mike Fahey Published September 6, 2016

Look At This Enormous LEGO Star Destroyer

OliveSeon, a team of Korean LEGO builders, have designed and constructed one of the most impressive Star Wars creations I have ever seen. Via Brothers Brick, their Imperial-class Star Destroyer has some frightening specs. It used around 42,000 bricks, took approximately 1000 hours to build, is 2.2m/7′3″ long and weighs 50kg/110lbs. Most impressive, though, is…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2016

Here’s The New Star Wars: Rogue One Trailer

Ever wondered what Star Wars vs D-Day would look like? Rogue One’s got your answer.

By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2016