Star Wars

All the Deaths from the Original Star Wars Movies, in Three Minutes

How many people became one with the Force in the Episodes IV-VI of the Star Wars films? Have a look at this montage of death scenes from the original trilogy and find out. This video from Digg keeps a running tally of all the on-screen deaths from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return…

A TIE Fighter and the Iron Giant, from artist-slash-game-dev Derek Laufman. These are part of the Inktober campaign, where artists create one ink drawing a day in October to improve their skills. Laufman’s already pretty good, as you can see. There’s more of his stuff below, and on his deviantART and Tumblr pages. Derek Laufman…

You Can Grab 89 Star Wars Comics for $15

The Humble Bundle has been branching out from just games for a bit now, but today they have 89 comics available if you pay at least $15. You’re reading Numbers, a blog on Kotaku that examines games and culture through the lens of math and statistics. To contact the author of this post, write to…

LEGO Star Wars Build Is a Huge 60,000-Piece Work of Art

Polish LEGO enthusiast Michal Kazmierczak picked a rather surprising scene from the Star Wars universe for his truly impressive build: the tiny red planet Mustafar, where Anakin fought Obi-Wan Kenobi and, as a result of his loss, he became Darth Vader. Just for comparison, the official LEGO Death Star, one of the largest in the…

Take a Look at the First New Star Wars Arcade Game in Years

The best part of the Star Wars arcade games of yore was how they transported you into the movies, letting you be the one destroying the Death Star and defeating the Empire. A new bunch of Star Wars machines are going to do the same thing for today’s audiences, starting next January. Star Wars Battle…

Darth Revan Gets His Own Star Wars: The Old Republic Expansion

The hero/villain/it’s complicated who launched Star Wars’ distant past setting in 2003’s Knights of the Old Republic gets another shot at the spotlight in Shadow of Revan, a digital expansion for MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, launching in December. In retrospect, Star Wars: the Old Republic might have done a lot better at launch…

Disney Kills Star Wars Game Without Telling Creator

Tiny Death Star‘s creator is not having a good day. A cursory look at the iOS App Store and Google Play reveals that Disney has fired its Mickey-Mouse-shaped Death Star at two relatively short-lived Star Wars games: Tiny Death Star and Star Wars Assault Team. The latter was a basic albeit solid card battler, but…

Death Stars It’d Really Take to Destroy a Planet

Ever since I learned how inaccurate Star Wars battles really were, I’ve been thinking about how off the entire Star Wars universe is. I get it, in a place where people have telekinetic powers and can shoot lightning from their fingers; you can’t exactly expect things to line up with… well, physics. When I started…

What Are The Best Video Game Levels Ever Made?

A recent topic at Quora was What are the best video game levels ever made? There’s a wide variety of choices, including the final level in Braid, Ocarina of Time’s Water Temple, and a level from Tie Fighter that immediately came to my mind. You can watch the entire mission above—you start out flying an…

Why Weren’t These Guys Fighting On Endor? The Empire Might Have Won!

You’ve got to think that one of the main reasons Imperial troops got their asses handed to them on Endor was their camouflage. Or, lack thereof. That glossy white armour plating doesn’t exactly make you blend in with the forest surroundings. This is a Swamp Trooper, but that colour palette could easily have worked among…

Han & Chewie Figures Look Real Enough To Pull The Ears Off A Gundark

Look at Chewie long enough and you start imagining him flicking his arms around in slow-mo, like the universe’s coolest shampoo commercial. Look at Han long enough and, well, you’ll get those same feelings you always get when you stare too deeply into his cheeky scowl. This Chewie figure is by Hoy Toys (who else),…

Science Explains How Space Battles Could REALLY Go Down

Look, since they usually involve smartass aliens, robots and magic powers, space battles have never been expected to the bastions of scientific accuracy. Still, it’s interesting seeing just how much is wrong with the epic showdowns in stuff like Star Wars. This clip, while based on a pinch of conjecture, uses science to break down…

Sometimes, a mobile game has a ratings prompt so gross it compels fans to get genuinely angry. And other times, a mobile game approaches the necessary evil with the humour it deserves.

Major Knights Of The Old Republic Character Making Big Return, It Seems

An interesting teaser for fans of Knights of the Old Republic, for sure, presumably whetting appetites for The Old Republic MMO’s next big update. UPDATE: Apologies for any confusion, but Revan’s been in The Old Republic before. He appears in a Flashpoint mission. The “big return” we’re referring to is that the teaser suggests he’ll…

The Episode VII Millennium Falcon Has The Batmobile On It

Bad Robot’s latest tweet shows off the Episode VII Millennium Falcon, which has a familiar vehicle sculpted on it: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Return Of Darth Revan

Good news for fans of Knights of the Old Republic—according to this new teaser video, Darth Revan will soon be making a major appearance in Star Wars: The Old Republic: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Sand People Ride Cute Dogs In Single File, To Hide Their Numbers

$24. That’s all this costs. $24 to turn your “dog” into a Bantha. I say “dog”, because I’m looking at this, and I’m looking at my 18 month-old kid, and I’m reaching for my wallet. For those of a more Imperial persuasion, you can get a similar outfit, only with a Sandtrooper atopa Dewback. [via…

Here’s A Stormtrooper Being Stopped By The New Batmobile

Zack Snyder’s latest Batman/Star Wars mashup image features a Stormtrooper, the new Batmobile, and GCPD’s finest You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

​Star Wars is Anticlimactic Without Music

Few scenes in film are as triumphant as the end scene from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The pageantry! The celebration! The swelling John Williams soundtrack! Well, maybe it isn’t so impressive when you take away that last bit. Auralnauts reimagined what the end of Star Wars sounded like without all that pesky…

Heroic Kickstarter Wants To Build A 13-Foot Star Destroyer

LEGO builder Thomas Benedikt has big dreams. He wants to build a LEGO version of a Super Star Destroyer. And yes, there’s an official model of an SSD already available, but it’s only 4-feet long. Thomas wants to build one over three times larger One catch: that takes a lot of LEGO bricks. So Thomas…