Star Wars

What Really Happened With Luke’s Hand After His Duel With Darth Vader

Star Wars’ extended universe might have an answer for the fate of Luke Skywalker’s lost hand after the events of The Empire Strikes Back, but cartoonist Doug Savage’s short is just a better one. It’s a bittersweet tale with a Father’s Day spin: To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Stormtroopers Make Sure Japanese Children Plant Rice

The rice planting season has wrapped up in Japan. Imperial Stormtroopers ensured everything went as planned. [Photo:cinematoday_stf] As noted on Japaaan and Game Over, the children were from a local nursery school in Aomori Prefecture, and they were enlisted for the day to help plant rice for rice paddy art. This is actually a publicity…

We Played Star Wars: Battlefront

And then we talked to you about it live, on Periscope. Here’s an archive of that chat, in which Evan and I discuss our warm feelings towards the roughly 13-minute multiplayer round we played at E3. If you weren’t already aware, Periscope is a Twitter-owned live-streaming service that operates best in landscape mode. And if…

I shouldn’t care about this game. Disney Infinity was terrible, and 2.0 wasn’t much better. And yet, there is hope for 3.0. Mostly because of the involvement of Ninja Theory (Enslaved) and Sumo Digital (Outrun 2006). And just partially because of the sweet figures.

Five Minutes Of Star Wars: Battlefront Gameplay

Straight outta EA’s E3 press conference, here’s a big chunk of multiplayer gameplay from Star Wars Battlefront, out November 17 for PS4/Xbox One/PC. Looks pretty rad, don’t you think? EA says this is running on a PS4, captured from a 40-person battle between the Empire and Rebels on the frozen planet of Hoth. “As the…

Yay, another fucking mobile Star Wars card game. Coming later this year, EA believes “this is the Star Wars game mobile players have been waiting for.” Unlike Star Wars Assault Team or Star Wars: Force Collection. Great.

Brother battles brother in Star Wars: The Old Republic—Knights of the Fallen Empire, a free expansion pack coming later this year that promises a return to BioWare-style storytelling. Expect epic adventures, a new companion character and a website that says all of this and has since it accidentally leaked over the weekend.

My Current Favorite Star Wars Characters Join Disney Infinity 3.0 

The finest band of Rebel scum since Luke and Pals get their due in this fall’s Disney Infinity 3.0. That’s right, my favorite Star Wars is currently an animated series. While I’ll always have a soft spot for the originals and a hard, prickly spot for several characters from the prequel, the crew of the…

A Sad Comic About The Star Wars Pilot Who Blows Up The Executor

It’s an act of suicidal heroism that helps tip the entire Battle of Endor in the Alliance’s favour, but the pilot responsible for the Executor’s destruction—Arvel Crynyd, aka Green Leader—is basically an unknown. A random face attached to a giant explosion, whose actor wasn’t even credited in Return of the Jedi. This comic looks to…

A Very Special Edition Of Return Of The Jedi

Slave Leia is such an overplayed subject for cosplay that these days it takes a lot to get people to notice it. Or, if not a lot, then a beard and some balloons. Cosplay by Bearded Leia Cosplay, via fashionably geek

Disney Infinity 3.0 is Actually a Pretty Interesting Star Wars Game

The original Disney Infinity was a wonderful celebration of some iconic Disney worlds (Pirates of the Caribbean, Monsters Inc, Cars…), but the second Marvel-themed Disney Infinity 2.0 didn’t seem to have as much creativity or, I suspect, as much passion in its design. I hugely enjoyed going through the original play sets, even the slightly…

Now This Is How You Do Star Wars Art

So a new Star Wars game got announced today, and people seem pretty ho-hum about it, mostly because it’s for mobile. But it got my attention right away, mostly for the art. Four images of the game’s characters, all drawn by Brian Matyas, were released today, and I don’t think I’ve seen a Star Wars…

Darth Vader and The Other Big Moment from This Week’s Star Wars Comics

Yesterday’s Star Wars comic dropped a big bombshell, introducing a character that changes everything we know about the galaxy’s most notorious smuggler. But, along with the newest issue of Darth Vader, it showed the exact moment when the Dark Lord of the Sith learned who Obi-Wan Kenobi’s last padawan was. Yeah, the one he’s related…

Disney and Kabam are teaming up for Star Wars: Uprising, a Diablo-inspired mobile game that’ll have a beta in the “coming weeks” for certain territories. It’s set after Return of the Jedi but prior to The Force Awakens, and the full game arrives this fall. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected]…

Awesome Star Wars X-Wing Drone Takes It To The Sky

Hard to get a glimpse of the propellers in French enthusiast Oliver C’s X-Wing drone. It is a completely rebuilt and customized quadrocopter that now looks like the iconic fighter from Star Wars The creator took it to a test flight to see how it performs and made a short video (with the Death Star…

A Very Different Kind Of Stormtrooper

ThreeA—a company renowned for making some of the best damn toys on the planet—has come out with a line of Star Wars figures, designed by famed comic, toy (and Metal Gear) artist Ashley Wood Taking ThreeA’s regular thing of making everything dirty and urban, these Stormtroopers look more like post-apocalyptic backpacking samurai. I’m not sold…

The New Star Wars Arcade Game Is Worth Tracking Down

Star Wars Battle Pod might not be good enough to justify paying $35,000 to have at home, but there’s no denying it’s the most fun I’ve had with an arcade game in years. I’m not kidding about the $35,000 price tag, either. Bandai Namco announced yesterdayit would let consumers start purchasing copies of Star Wars…

Buy Your Own Star Wars Battle Pod for Just $98,000 [Update]

Star Wars Battle Pod is the first Star Wars arcade game in years. I guess because playing it in game centers isn’t enough, Bandai Namco is selling it to the Japanese public. There’s a catch! And it’s the price. Update: Namco Bandai will be making the Battle Pods available for purchase in the U.S. and…

I Care About Star Wars Because It Introduced Me To ‘Lore’

Today, May 25, is Star Wars Day—not the weird pun nonsense earlier this month that people love to call “Star Wars Day”, but the anniversary of the release of the original film in 1977. And today here on Kotaku we’re going to celebrate an oft-mocked part of Star Wars: the Expanded Universe. Today, nerds (this…

No foam or cardboard here. JaroKrieg’s Jaster Mereel suit is made from aluminium plates! Photo by DarthInvidia