Star Wars

Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Kotaku Review

After two Lego Star Wars games covering a movie trilogy each, can Star Wars: The Force Awakens carry an entire Lego game by itself? Not without a lot of help. For example, I launched the game halfway through downloading to my PlayStation 4. While most of the game was waiting for more data, I was…

Untold Star Wars Stories Are The Best Part Of Lego: The Force Awakens

Star Wars Episode VII’s main story is great and all, but have you heard about how dashing Resistance pilot Poe Dameron and C3PO saved rescued Admiral Ackbar from a First Order Star Destroyer? Let me tell you all about it. The prequel-based Lego Star Wars made three so-so to horrible films endearing. Lego Star Wars…

LEGO Kylo Ren’s Bedroom Is Perfect

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ version of Kylo Ren can be a bit intimidating, but deep down inside he’s just a fan like everybody else. The game comes out next week. He’ll be in his room sulking until then.

The LEGO Force Awakens Demo Shows Off All The New Stuff

In case you were wondering if the ship battles, cover-based shooting and multi-builds were enough to get you to buy another movie-based LEGO game, the free LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens demo has all of those things. Launched last night for the PlayStation 4 and available this afternoon for the Xbox One, the LEGO…

EA Lays Out Their Star Wars Plans For The Next Three Years

EA is working on more Star Wars games. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you. DICE and Motive (the company founded by former Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell producer Jade Raymond) are working on a new Battlefront for 2017. Visceral’s Star Wars game, headed up by former Uncharted maestro Amy Hennig, is coming in 2018. Respawn…

Sushi Chef Makes Star Wars Vegetable Sculptures

Meet Okitsugu Kado. For the past ten years, this sushi chef has been honing skills as the best Star Wars vegetable carver around. Kado uses veggies like carrots, cucumbers and sweet potatoes to create an array of Star Wars characters. To date, he’s carved over 90 different Star Wars characters. Kado even appeared at last…

The Wild Story Of Tie Fighter’s Illegal 1994 Pirate Leak

Software piracy in 2016 is so ubiquitous that we expect games to leak ahead of release. Back in the 20th century, though, it was a lot harder for pirates to get hold of video games before they hit retail shelves. As evidenced by this crazy old story about howthe classic TIE Fighter got out a…

EA Says Star Wars Battlefront Didn’t Have A Campaign Because Of The Force Awakens

If you thought Star Wars Battlefront was insubstantial, you’re not alone. The folks running EA agree, and they say they plan to add more content when the next one comes along. Yesterday during EA’s annual investors day, executive vice president Patrick Soderlund explained that they chose to develop Battlefront without a single-player campaign so they…

Artist Makes Badass Battlefront, Killzone & Resident Evil Figures

Snow Corporation is a British artist who, inspired by stuff like Sideshow’s efforts, builds and modifies custom action figures. Star Wars, Warhammer, Marvel, commissions, he’s done it all, and they are all incredible Note this is different to the VTS figures we showed last week; those are commercial bootlegs, while these are either for commission…

Star Wars Battlefront will return in 2017 with “bigger and better worlds,” and will pull from the new films, EA announced on an investor call today. It’s unclear if this means a proper Battlefront 2 or a big expansion. An EA spokesperson said the company had “nothing more to share.”

Rogue One’s LEGO Trailer Is As Good As The Real One

The Star Wars: Rogue One trailer was released on April 7. That’s less than a month ago, and already, a team of fans have gone and made something that actual LEGO game developers Traveller’s Tales would be proud of. The clip was a collaboration between nine of the internet’s best LEGO animators (full list here),…

Lock Xbox Controller In Attack Position

To ring in this most special of marketing holidays, End Of Line Designs built this incredible X-Wing pilot-themed Xbox One controller. You can’t buy it—it’s a one-off custom—but don’t let that stop you wondering what it’d be like for Microsoft to put the same effort into custom Elite controllers (oh for that to be a…

Both Star Wars: The Force Unleashed games are now backwards compatible on Xbox One, Microsoft announced today. While it’s not the Knights of the Old Republic remake I’ve been hoping for, it’s something.

I Can Finally Play Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire Whenever I Want

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, much like the recently re-released Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, used to be a pain to get your hands on. Now, though, it’s just a few clicks away. Shadows of the Empire was a sort of Star Wars mid-quel, an attempt at bridging the gap between Empire Strikes Back and…

The Makers Of Titanfall Are Working On A Star Wars Game

Clearly not busy enough with Titanfall 2, the developers at Respawn are working with EA on a new Star Wars game, they announced today. EA says it’ll be a third-person action-adventure game, just like the one that’s currently in development at Visceral (Dead Space). Says the company: Today, I’m thrilled to be able to announce…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens LEGO Game Shows Us What Happened Before The Movie

Episode VII left fans with many unanswered questions. How did Lor San Tekka get part of Luke’s map? What were Han and Chewie doing alone on a ship full of deadly Rathtar? The answers to these and other burning questions arrive next month in LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Like previous games in the…

No One’s Missing From This Fan-Made LEGO Mos Eisley Spaceport

A wretched hive of scum and villainy. LEGO and Star Wars enthusiast I Scream Clone and his friends built a quite busy and enormous blocky version of Mos Eisley, including pretty much everything that can show up in a desolate place like this. The cantina with the main characters is in the center of the…

Star Wars vs Studio Ghibli [Update]

Inspired by CG+’s Star Wars: Reimaginedcontest (which we’ve already covered, and which he missed out on entering), artist Lap Pun Cheung has drawn a few images of his own taking the galaxy far, far away and injecting it up to its eyeballs with Studio Ghibli’s aesthetic. We actually showcased Cheung’s work fairly recently, but this…

The First Order’s TIE Pilots Are Lookin’ Sharp

We get a lot of Rey, Finn and Kylo Ren cosplay around here, but master props builder Shawn Thorsson has turned his eye towards one of the cooler and more obscure designs from Force Awakens: the new TIE pilots. Beginning with 3D models, Thorsson built a few suits from scratch, making everything from the helmets…

Dark Souls Players Nuke Invader Death Star Style

Today on Highlight Reel we have vaporized invaders, powerful kicks, rocket punches and much more! Watch the video above or on our Youtube Page, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below Dying Light – “you monsters are…