Star Wars

2016 Is A Crucial Year For Star Wars: The Old Republic

With Knights of the Fallen Empire, the latest expansion for SWTOR, Bioware tried something different, and right now I’m not talking about all the gameplay changesI applauded back when it first hit in October. The game is in a better place than it was. Now it has to keep improving. Though KOTFE did technically release…

Kylo Ren Hates Losing at Arcade Games

Pro-tip: If you are playing Taiko no Tatsujin with Kylo Ren, let him win. Via Twitter user RugusuLee, here is a glimpse of what happens when you don’t. [Photo: RugusuLee] [Photo: RugusuLee] [Photo: RugusuLee] Top image: RugusuLee To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is…

Bless This Sweet Little Star Wars Kickstarter [Update]

Devin Tripp, from Grapevine, Texas, says he is 20 years old. His is not the first name that springs to mind when you’re thinking of development of a new Star Wars “open world RPG”. Nevertheless, Tripp—who is “not a very good programmer” and “an even worse artist”—has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Star Wars Open…

Look At These Force Awakens “Action Figures”

Hot Toys, whose work on comic book movies has been nothing short of inspiring, also have the license to make figures based on the characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. They’re so good. There are already a ton of the large, detailed figures announced, from stars like Rey and Finn to Kylo Ren to…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Minus the Movie Stars, the Expensive Effects, and Hollywood

Star Wars movies aren’t cheap. They are filmed all over the world and require numerous practical and digital effects. That costs money. But what if you made The Force Awakens trailer with friends on a budget? A very low, low budget. Then, I guess it would look like this. Nice work, penny pinchers! This isn’t…

There’s a PC Hiding Inside This Huge Star Destroyer

What looks like a Venator-class Star Destroyer replica at first is in fact an incredibly well-made case for a gaming PC. We have to take a closer look to see all the hardware, hidden by modder Sander van der Velden, functioning as the engines and other parts of the massive ship. The frame was made…

There Has Been A Cosplay Awakening

There’s already a ton of great Kylo Ren cosplay out there, but I haven’t seen one go the extra milelike Alhon has The outfit is great, but it’s the location that makes these shots so fantastic; he went outside in a “Minnesota blizzard”, which not only gets him a nice dusty effect on the black…

R2-D2 And C-3PO Are Out Of Control

Forget C-3PO’s new red arm. That enhancement is nothing compared to Yamaguchi Katuhisa’s figure modifications of the two old, otherwise peaceful, robo-buddies. He swapped a few parts of R2-D2 and C-3PO figures with ones from Ultron, Snake or a Ghost in the Shell Tachikoma to create the most powerful fighting force the Star Wars universe…

Star Wars Fan Spends A Year Building The Best LEGO Millennium Falcon Ever

LEGO builder Marshall Banana spent a year planning and building this 7,500 piece replica of the latest version of Han Solo’s ride. It’s one of the most beautiful pieces of garbage I’ve ever seen. The official LEGO set for The Force Awakens’ Falcon is 1.329 pieces, and it doesn’t look so hot. The biggest official…

Fan Builds Huge 3-Foot Tall Star Wars Ewok Village

Quite a surprising choice for a Star Wars-themed LEGO build. But KW Vauban’s Ewok village is so amazing it almost makes the little furry bastards of Endor lovable. Here are some close-ups (more pics over here), showing memorable moments from Return of the Jedi and some familiar faces hiding under the trees. To contact the…

Kylo Ren’s Fake Twitter Account Is The Best

If you haven’t seen Force Awakens yet, SPOILERS AHEAD Seen it? OK, so you know that Kylo Ren is…not your average villain. He’s a villain-in-training, a moody young man with feelings and a lightsaber, which should eventually make for some interesting character development, but for now makes for an excellent parody Twitter account someone has…

The Force Awoken

JokerLolibel with a pretty good Rey. Photo by Eva

Fallout 4 Star Wars Mod Lets You Kill People With Lightsabers

Because your murderous wasteland rampage needs a little extra something, don’t you think? “Lightsaber Renew” is a cool Fallout 4 mod created by invalidfate, and not only does it let you equip a lightsaber, it also comes with the appropriate shoom sound effects whenever you unleash it. You get a few color choices, too, including…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Was Beaten In Japan By…Yo-Kai Watch

There has been an awakening. Whilethe new Star Wars movie crushes box office records across the US and Europe, let’s take this moment to consider that not every market awards box office victories based on cash money. Japan, for example, tracks movies based on the number of ticket sales, not how much money was made…

Counter-Strike: Global Awakening. WeAreSOLST1CE took Counter-Strike and added a dash of Star Wars. How? Perhaps they spoke words with such mellifluous power that we’re collectively hallucinating something that isn’t there. Or maybe they, you know, edited a replay. One of those.

What We Thought About Star Wars: The Force Awakens

We recently took a break from our usual back-and-forths about video games to chat about the new Star Wars movie: what we liked, what didn’t make sense, what we think will happen next. Join us, if you will. Warning: this one’s full of spoilers. Don’t read it unless you’ve already seen the movie (or don’t…

Star Wars N64 Looks Like It Was Found In The Wreckage Of Jakku

Inspired by The Force Awakens, artist Vadu Amka decided to make a Star Wars console themed after the desert wreckage scattered all over the planet Jakku. It took him around 30 hours to make, and involved everything from hammered aluminium to sanding to melting tin sheets onto the thing. You can see more pics of…

How Stars Wars Mobile Games Are Celebrating The Force Awakens

Battlefront has its Jakku maps, Disney Infinity 3.0 has its movie adventure, but about the platform with more current Star Wars games than any other? Here’s how the mobile side of Star Wars gaming is celebrating the release of Episode VII Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes EA’s collectible character role-playing game was custom-built for quickly…

The Force Awakens Is a Very Good Star Wars Movie

“Oh my dear friend, how I’ve missed you,” says a returning character to another in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. They’re glad to see each other again. I was, too. Throughout the decades since we first met them, the metallic, furry and extraterrestrial personas of Star Wars have felt like larger-than-life acquaintances who’ve been gone…

A Funny Thing Happens At The End Of Disney Infinity‘s Star Wars: The Force Awakens Play Set

The Disney Infinity Star Wars: The Force Awakens adventure loosely follows the events of the new movie from start to finish, though one particular dramatic development is glossed over. Spoilers are going to happen here, kids. Seriously, if you’ve not seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens yet and plan on doing so, do not read…