Star Wars

A Video Game Tour Of The New Star Wars Planet Jakku

Star Wars: Battlefront’s Battle of Jakku downloadable content is now live for preorder customers, giving Star Wars fans their first taste of The Force Awakens. As it turns out, it tastes a lot like Tatooine. Remember when the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out and everybody was like “Oh great, another…

Disney Releases The Coolest Star Wars Infinity Figures In The Most Annoying Way Possible

Disney harnessed the light side of the Force to create six variant Disney Infinity Star Wars figures with Lightsabers that actually light up. Then they tapped into the dark side to make each of the six exclusive to a different retailer. Using the same sort of portal-based wizardry that makes Light Core Skylanders figures flare…

Japanese-Style Star Wars Art Shown at Buddhist Temple 

One of Kyoto’s most famous temples Kiyomizu-dera is a must see if you visit Japan. But if you’re in Japan this December, you can check out something rather unique at this World Heritage site: Star Wars art. Like the Mario and Luigi painting unveiled earlier this year, this is a Rimpa-style Force Awakens screen painting…

Stormtrooper Gives In To His Anger

Today on Highlight Reel we have Force-sensitive Strormtroopers, horrible leg movements, lucky knives, blind kills and much more! Watch the video above, 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. Rainbow Six Siege – Seeing nothing…still two kills…

Disney Infinity, LEGO Dimensions Or Skylanders: Which Toy-Based Game Is Right For You?

First Skylanders, then Disney Infinity and now LEGO—the video game sections of major retailers everywhere are slowly being taken over by toys. Which plastic portal of power should you be plugging into your game console? Let’s see if we can help. In a perfect world where no one needed to care about cost or shelf…

Lightsabers Work A Bit Differently In GTA V

Lightsabers and the Force as well. I don’t remember the Emperor attacking with a lightning middle finger, but here’s Trevor doing it. Excellent and smooth animation made by Boris the Blade, using only the Rockstar Editor and After Effects. Makes it even more impressive. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Fantastic Star Wars Cosplay Hasn’t Forgotten KOTOR

Is Knights of the Old Republic even canon anymore? Ah, who cares, this terrific cosplay is now Star Wars cosplay canon. Saphirais Satele Shan, Blood Spider is Darth Revan. Photos by So Say We All And just so you know, no, they’re not real lightsabers.

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…