Star Wars

Disney Infinity 3.0 Should Have Led With The Force Awakens

Today we get our first look at the Disney Infinity 3.0 Star Wars: The Force Awakens play set in action, and I’m finally excited about the combo. Not that I haven’t appreciated all of the Star Wars characters in Disney Infinity 3.0 and enjoyed the twoplay sets introduced so far. It’s just that we knew…

EA’s Other New Star Wars Game Has Nothing On Battlefront [Update–Launched Worldwide]

“The Star Wars game mobile gamers have been waiting for” has soft-launched in several countries, giving us lucky faux-Australians a taste of EA’s mobile card RPG. Not featured: gripping excitement. Update—now available worldwide! Originally posted on 10/17/15 You know those mobile “role-playing games” that are big right now? The ones where you summon random characters,…

Alongside Star Wars: Battlefront’s pricey $50 season pass, EA says it’s going to be releasing “new maps” for free “in the coming months.” Most people seem to dig Battlefront, with the game’s biggest problem being a lack of content.

Tense Star Wars: Battlefront Duel Ends In Best Way Possible

Two enemies lock eyes on the battlefield. One, a Rebel soldier. The other, an Imperial Stormtrooper. This can only end in one way. And it’s probably not the way you’re thinking. This clip, uploaded by Nick Nixon, is one of the funniest things I’ve seen come from Star Wars: Battlefront.

Graphics Mod Makes New Star Wars Game Look Like A New Star Wars Movie

After wowing us with his gorgeous (and still unreleased)graphics mod for Grand Theft Auto V, Martin Bergman applies his Toddyhancer tweaks to Star Wars: Battlefront with ridiculous results. The Tatooine survival mission in Star Wars: Battlefront isn’t too hard on the eyes in its unaltered form. But once Bergman applies his signature mix of reshade…

Star Wars: Battlefront PC Benchmarks: A Small Show Of Force

It’s been a big year for PC gaming with plenty of blockbuster releases including GTA V, The Witcher 3, Fallout 4 and Project CARS, but there was one more game on everyone’s radar since its first teaser videos were unveiled by EA in 2013. Star Wars Battlefront has been met with tremendous anticipation. Its 5-day…

Fan Fixes, Then Improves Star Wars: Republic Commando

Republic Commando is one of the best—if not also underrated—Star Wars games ever made. Thing is, if you’ve wanted to play it on PC recently, you’ve been shit out of luck, since the game ran poorly (and didn’t look great) on modern graphics cards. Thankfully, there’s now one hell of a fix. Earlier this yearLeon280698…

Battlefront Easter Egg Celebrates One of Star Wars’ Best Bloopers

Blink and you’ll miss one of the best easter eggs in Star Wars: Battlefront. Spotted by GamesRadar, here’s a silly background moment that happens in a Battlefront cutscene: Bonk! As Star Wars fans already know, that’s totally a nod to one of the most famous slip-ups in Star Wars. Pay attention to the right side…

Star Wars: Battlefront: The Kotaku Review

Star Wars: Battlefront wants you to believe you’re in a Star Wars movie, but at heart it’s one of the video-game-iest video games I’ve played in ages. This is the source of both its greatest triumphs and its worst failures. Star Wars: Battlefront is a large-scale multiplayer shooter loosely set during the original movie trilogy.…

All Aboard Japan’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens Train

This all makes sense for a country that already has, not one, but two Star Wars airplanes. As part of the seemingly endless Force Awakens promotional push, the Nankai Rapi:t train service, which runs between Kansai International Airport and Osaka City’s Namba Station, is getting covered in a good helping of the Force. According to…

The Weaponized Nostalgia Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Over the last few months I’ve been watching with increasing amazement at how perfectly the new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens, has been pitched. Nostalgia has been a key tool for Hollywood for a long time now. Whether it’s a rebooted Ghostbusters, Terminator, or Mad Max, the hysteria over Back to the Future Day,…

Star Wars: Battlefront Helped Me Understand How The Empire Lost On Endor

How could a powerful military force like the Empire lose to a scruffy band of rebel scum and a handful of teddy bears? I’m thinking it has something to do with the Imperial dress code. While I’ve only been playing the release version of Star Wars: Battlefront since yesterday, I’ve played enough to dread the…

Luke and Vader Face Off in Marvel’s Best Star Wars Comic So Far

Star Wars canon has changed, and some of that has happened in a new wave of Marvel Comics series. Months ago, we saw Luke Skywalker wield a lightsaber against his father way before their fateful meeting in The Empire Strikes Back. This week’s Star Wars comic has them dogfighting against each other and it’s damn…

Luke Skywalker Sure Did Kill A Lot Of People

Darth Vader is nowhere near the young Jedi. Taking official numbers into account, MrSundayMovies carefully calculated how many people Luke killed in the original Star Wars trilogy. It’s a staggering 369,470. Dammit, Luke. And it’s just the original trilogy. Things like Timothy Zahn’s books are not even included. Does this mean… he’s really the bad…

That Time Star Wars Became An Awful Fighting Game

With only weeks to go until the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, everyone has Star Wars fever. Over the years, the universe of Star Wars has spawned countless video games. Some, like Masters of the Teräs Käsi, were pretty bad. Star Wars has been the basis of first-person shooters, third-person shooters, action games,…

Life-Sized X-Wing Is Parked at a Singapore Airport

If you are strolling through Terminal 3, you might notice something. A giant rebel fighter. You can do more than just look at this replica. Toggle and The Strait Times report that regular folks can even climb into the cockpit for photo ops. A limited number of tickets are given out daily. Of course, this…

Star Wars Battlefront Impressions: Skimpy Singleplayer, Fun Multiplayer

What is Star Wars Battlefront actually made of? The heavily hyped multiplayer game from the makers got an early release for EA Access subscribers on Xbox One. I dove in on Thursday to see what the game is all about. Battlefront is, not surprisingly, a multiplayer-centric game. Everyone figured that, given that that’s pretty much…

Star Wars Battlefront Lets You Kill Rebel Scum While You Install

There’s a cool little mini-game in the installation screen for Star Wars Battlefront. Also, if you’re on EA Access, you might not want to play it. When you load up the new Star Wars, which comes out Tuesday but went live today on EA Access, you can jump right into a battlefield and rip apart…

K-Pop Group Releases Lightsaber Song

While the world should start bracing itself for a nasty Star Wars: The Force Awakens hangover, it isn’t. Korean pop fans, included. As tipster Sang points out, boy band Exo teamed up with Walt Disney Korea for this songvertisement “Lightsaber.” The video seems kind of low budget, and there’s a side-helping of cringe, but Exo…

Snacktaku Senses Great Fear In Kraft’s Star Wars Macaroni & Cheese

With The Force Awakens fever growing with each passing day, no where is safe from Star Wars merchandising—not even the pasta dish people usually make because they’ve too little time or money to eat real food. I kid Kraft Macaroni & Cheese (or Kraft Dinner in Canada), though really I don’t. Despite its general tastiness…