Star Wars

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Force Awakens Stuff

Disney has announcedthat September 4 is the day all the toys and merchandise for Star Wars: The Force Awakens will hit store shelves. Accompanying the announcement was a blank box with easy to mimic placeholder fonts. IT’S A TRAP! I know we did a Star Wars ‘shop contest last week, but some opportunities are too…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Bling Side Of The Force: Winners!

Last weekwe challenged our Photoshop-savvy readers to out-bling a Darth Vader helmet covered in gold. We’re going to need more precious metals. While many of this week’s entries took a more modern approach to making sure everybody knows how much money Star Wars characters have, ‘Shop Contest regular uscg_pa took a more…traditional approach? Sure, we’ll…

What A New X-Wing, Tie Fighter Could Look Like

X-Wing Alliance, the last proper space sim set in the Star Wars universe, was released in 1999. The 20th century. The chances of us getting another one are approximately 3722 to 1. But that’s OK! We can always dream. And hope that this indie game actually gets made. This is STAR FORCE. It’s a space…

Someone Put A Star Wars AT-AT In Arma 3

On today’s Highlight Reel we have ArmA III AT-ATs, illegal hair loss in GTA V, sitting guardians in Destiny and much more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Destiny – Sittin…

Come On, Disney, Hip-Hop Stormtrooper Needs to Be Star Wars Canon

“Can I walk onto a Star Wars set and fit into the background?” A lot of the costumes on display here could do exactly that. Probably not Hip-Hip Trooper, though. He’s definitely Expanded Universe… unless things change. Thousands of Star Wars fans converged on Anaheim more than a week ago for the annual Celebration fan-fest.…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Bling Side Of The Force

Last week a Tokyo jeweler covered a Darth Vader helmet in gold, leading to at least two obvious questions—why just the helmet, and why only Vader? Surely the entire extended Star Wars cast is deserving a shiny metal makeover. Ginza Tanaka may have had good intentions, but he fell way short of his completely assumed…

The Gold Darth Vader Helmet You’ve Always Wanted

The Dark Side of the Force? Oh no. This is the bling side. Tokyo’s Ginza Tanaka has covered a Darth Vader helmet in gold. According to The Wall Street Journal, the jeweler won’t divulge how much it cost to create this glittery Vader and isn’t offering the mask for sale. Instead, as Reuters adds, the…

When Luke Skywalker Sucked at Being a Jedi

In the original Star Wars trilogy, we saw Luke Skywalker pull off amazing shit. Destroying the Death Star. The cool-ass sequence where he stormed Jabba the Hutt’s skiff. (That somersault!) We saw him struggle a lot, too. But, the newest issue of the Star Wars comic gives us a glimpse at how bad his self-doubt…

Bulgarian Music Video Is Weird Star Wars

The latest video from Bulgarian group Deep Zone Project features some familiar co-stars. Not sure if they’re official ones, though. Yeah… I’ve got a very bad feeling about this. Plus, Star Wars: Kinect flashbacks. The video, which was spotted by Europ Popped, doesn’t even look remotely official. The tune is called “May the Force Be…

Force Awakens Actor Roamed Star Wars Con Disguised As Clone Trooper

Cosplay can be pretty useful, especially if you use it as misdirection. And that’s exactly what John Boyega, star of the upcoming Star Wars movie, did at a convention recently. As The Daily Dot writes, Boyega was at the Star Wars Celebration last weekend…as a Clone Trooper. Nobody noticed! That was the point, of course.…

The Brilliant Star Wars Galaxies Idea That Didn’t Happen

In 2003, way before anyone could even imagine a Star Wars-Disney union, thousands of eager padawans signed up for an online game called Star Wars Galaxies. Today, Galaxies is no more, rendered obsolete by a glut of other massively multiplayer RPGs including BioWare’s recent Star Wars: The Old Republic. But back then the SOE-developed game…

BioWare’s Star Wars Games Are Not Official Star Wars Canon

With the new Star Wars movies, Disney basically tossed out everything in the Extended Universe. At last week’s fan convention, someone asked what it meant for BioWare’s games. What “canon” means for Star Wars has changed in the last few years. While Disney is reigning in what is and isn’t considered “official,” it’s still open…

So Many Mandalorian Mercs At Star Wars Celebration 2015

How many Mandalorian mercenaries can you fit in the Anaheim Convention Center? Looks like all of them. With close to a hundred of them in the shot above alone, Mandalorian mercenaries (or Mandos for short) make up the majority of our second batch of Star Wars Celebration 15 cosplay photos, courtesy of the fine folks…

Star Wars Battlefront Looks Cool, But I’m Not Ready To Get Excited

Star Wars fans are easy marks. It’s one of our kind’s more endearing qualities, even while it tends to leave us vulnerable to being exploited. And we have been exploited, even by, perhaps accidentally, the man who created this universe and brand. When you’re sitting in a big room full of hardcore fans at Star…

Watch The First Trailer For Star Wars Battlefront

After a decade of cancellations, false starts, and one tragic studio demise, this is the year we’ll finally see a third Star Wars Battlefront game. Here’s our first look. Today as part of the Star Wars Celebration, publisher EA released a trailer for their upcoming take on Battlefront, which is developed by DICE (best known…

The Coolest Cosplay from Star Wars Celebration 2015

“It’s time to put on makeup/It’s time to dress up right/It’s time to raise the curtain on the Empire Show tonight!” Unless you’ve been trapped in a Death Star garbage compactor all week, you probably know that Star Wars Celebration is happening right now. And, of course, the fanfest for folks who love the Force…

“The coolest man in the galaxy” is getting his own comic book when Marvel launches a Lando Calrissian series. The first issue by Charles Soule and Alex Maleev hits in July, joining the three other excellent Star Wars series being published by the House of Ideas. Contact the author at [email protected]

First Star Wars Battlefront Details Emerge

The third Star Wars Battlefront—just called Star Wars Battlefront—will be out on November 17 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. It’ll take place during the original film trilogy and let people play as iconic characters like Boba Fett and Darth Vader, according to an AP report. It’ll also let you go to a planet from…

Custom LEGO Star Wars Sandcrawler Gets The Size Right

If the official 3,296-piece version of the Jawa’s desert vehicle wasn’t big enough, here’s a colossal one built by Peter Brookdale As you can see in the video shared by The Brick Show, it’s not just a big chunk of brown bricks. but a rather detailed version with working tracks and a ramp. To contact…

Here’s The New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

Good afternoon, everyone. Here’s a new trailer for that movie about space. The teaser, which opens with a great Luke Skywalker monologue about his family’s connection to the Force—and sets the stage for plenty of speculation that this new set of movies will star his kids—is full of sizzling moments that will likely be analyzed…