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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 -
CultureCosplayWhen Star Wars Cosplay Is Better Than The Movie
While he’s one of the more impressive creature costumes in The Force Awakens, Grummgar spends his entire on-screen time sitting on the couch. Unlike this cosplay, which can get up and move around and do space mercenary stuff wherever the hell it wants. Of course, this kind of quality is no surprise: it’s by Julian…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 9, 2016 -
Lucasfilm Gently Removes The Star Wars From Popular Battlefront Fan Project
Mod team turned development studio Frontwire Games been making a lot of noise over its free fan recreation of the cancelled Star Wars: Battlefront 3. Turns out Lucasfilm is fine with them making the game, as long as there’s no Star Wars in it. Back in June, Frontwire announced its fan-crafted version of the cancelled…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2016 -
Exactly What Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Was Missing
The first two rounds of downloadable content for Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens drop today, along with some apples from the slippery hands of that lovable scamp, Jar Jar Binks. About time we got some prequel action up in here, am I right? No, I am not right. Still, it’s nice to see some…
By Mike Fahey Published July 26, 2016 -
The New Star Wars VR Experience Is Fine
Launched today on Steam, Star Wars: Trials of Tatooine is a very small taste of what official virtual reality lightsaber swinging might feel like. Note that I say swinging, and not combat. In the six or so minutes it took me to play through the entire experience (a full seven minutes without skipping the opening…
By Mike Fahey Published July 18, 2016 -
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Oh come on, Lego Star Wars. She might be a general now, but she’ll always be a princess.
By Mike Fahey Published July 3, 2016 -
J.J. Abrams Is a Playable Character In Lego The Force Awakens
Sharing screen time with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy in Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lego J.J. Abrams adds troop command and blaster marksmanship to his already impressive resume. It used to be Lego games’ behind-the-scenes cameos were limited to cutscenes. Now we get to take the famed director, producer, screenwriter and composer on a…
By Mike Fahey Published June 29, 2016 -
ReviewsLego 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…
By Mike Fahey Published June 28, 2016 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published June 27, 2016 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published June 14, 2016 -
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…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 12, 2016 -
Kotaku EastSushi 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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2016 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 24, 2016
