Star Wars

You Might Think This Is a Star Wars VII Trailer. It’s Not.

This is exactly how I’d imagine the first trailer for J. J. Abrams’ Star Wars flick to look like. Except with more lens flare. And music from Two Steps From Hell. And some extra scenes with space battles in them. On second thought, it wouldn’t look like this at all. Director Todd Sandler calls his…

The Old Republic‘s New Space Battles Have So Many Lasers, Y’all

Are we killing each other in space yet? Not yet. Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s skies don’t fill with fire until the subscriber early start of the Galactic Starfighter expansion on December 3, but you can see them now via this handy video dealio. So many lasers. I haven’t been this excited about Star Wars:…

Kid Only Stops Screaming For Star Wars Theme Song

Ever had a newborn kid? Or even been around one? They are the worst. You treasure any moment of peace and serenity available, and if you see a chance to create one, you take it. If you think this is somehow staged, I can assure you, babies are weird. They’ll find the strangest tranquillisers. My…

The First Major Movie To Be Dubbed In Navajo Is…Star Wars

Star Wars has been translated and dubbed into dozens of languages, but recently it became available in one you don’t normally see on a DVD menu: Navajo. Following a push by the Navajo Nation Museum, and with the stamp of approval from Lucasfilm, the film can now be screened with a complete and (relatively) accurate…

Episode VII of Star Wars will be out on December 18, 2015, LucasFilm just announced. Just 771 days left.

Donkey Kong Gets Unofficial Star Wars, Alien, Total Recall Expansions

Donkey Me is a fan project by Bruno R. Marcos which takes Nintendo’s classic arcade game and gives it a ton of new, unofficial “themed” expansions, based on stuff like Star Wars, Conan, Rambo, Indiana Jones and Big Trouble In Little China. He’s hoping to have it out in the next few days. It will…

Star Wars Bloopers Turned Into Hilarious Star Wars Trailer

So a few days back a fantastic blooper reel from the filming of the first Star Wars was found. Naturally, this footage has now been cut into a trailer for the movie. Based on the very first Star Wars trailer – which my poor brain now associates with Unkleinstead of the movie – it swaps…

Too ​Many Choices Of The Past Gaming Era Weren’t Choices At All

Great characters are usually at their best when they’re surprising us. A villain who is purely evil is never as interesting as a villain who sometimes expresses kindness. A killer with a code; a monster with a soft spot for kittens. Yet some video games this past generation just didn’t seem to get that—they pushed…

A Taste Of What Could’ve Been Had Nintendo Bought Star Wars

Hint: it would have been insane and filled with nostalgia. Okay, let’s be honest. Something like a full-length Star Wars-Nintendo mash-up movie could never, ever, ever have actually happened—which should certainly make us appreciate James Farr’s latest eight-minute masterpiece that much more, in which Link Skywalker faces Ganon-Darth and the evil Empire in a quest…

Hero Building A Star Destroyer As Big As A Room

Canadian artist Steve doesn’t have much use for one of the rooms in his house, it seems, which is why he’s turned it into a construction yard for a replica Super Star Destroyer. It’s called the Assertor, and is based on a design by Ansel Hsiao, whose amazing 3D works we showcased a couple of…

6 Pretty Messed Up Things You Can Do In Star Wars: The Old Republic

Yes, the Galactic Empire, the one from the movies, was pretty bad. They dressed liked nazis, were super racist and sexist, blew up planets, etc. but it could have been worse. And thousands of years earlier, it was. The Sith Empire of Star Wars: The Old Republic is a lot like the Empire we know…

Tour The Too-Cute-To-Blow-Up Tiny Death Star

NimbleBit, Disney and LucasArts are about to unleash the ultimate weapon on our unsuspecting planet — Tiny Tower, only set on Star Wars‘ Death Star. Disguising myself as an Australian, I infiltrated the adorable Imperial base, hoping to save my people from destruction. Is there no hope left? If you managed to shake off the…

The Old Spice Guy, As A Super Annoying Comic Book Nerd

Isaiah Mustafa, aka The Old Spice Guy, is in real life a huge comic book nerd. So enjoy, as in this short he plays the role of a…huge comic book nerd. And plays it well OK, so the clip’s not perfect, and not all the jokes make it. But Mustafa is worth it. WHAT’S IN…

The Greatest Sith Warrior In The Old Republic Is Even Scarier Up Close

Star Wars: The Old Republic couldn’t have Darth Vader, so it got Darth Malgus. Now that I’ve got him standing 20 inches high on my desk in the form of Sideshow Collectibles’ Darth Malgus Premium Format Figure, he might be my favorite Sith Lord ever. I mean, Darth Vader will always be an iconic figure…

Somebody, Call Wedge! Star Wars MMO Finally Adds PvP Space Battles

Sure, running around with a lightsaber or blaster pistol is a cool and integral part of the Star Wars experience. But, for the longest time, Star Wars: The Old Republic has been lacking one of the best things from the mythology: big honking space battles. Yes, yes, there have been crappy on-rails single-player dogfights in…

They’re Making a Tiny Tower Set In The Death Star

Did you feel that? It was as if millions of productive work hours just cried out in pain and then were silenced. Tiny Tower is one of themost addictive mobile games ever made. Star Wars is Star Wars. This combination, teased via the Star Wars Twitter account, is the death of productivity. Here’s the official…

Pokémon, Sonic, And Mega Man, All Made Out Of… Meat?

Ground meat ain’t just for hamburgers, you know. It’s also for art. Over at Tumblr, a blog called Epic Grinds serves as the purveyor of artistic objects created out of ground meat. The owner’s skill doesn’t stop at meatifying game characters, mind you—there’s a great variety of objects from anime, live-action series, and real life…

Every Sci-Fi Starship Ever*, In One Mindblowing Comparison Chart

Holy hell, that is a LOT of starships. This comparison chart, compiled by DeviantARTist Dirk Loechel, presents what he says is an accurate size-comparison between famous sci-fi starships. As far as I can tell it’s got more or less every single sci-fi starship ever, from Star Wars to Warhammer to EVE Online to Halo and…

The Death Star’s Trenches, Through the Eyes of the Oculus Rift

If you think about it, flight simulators, with their fully-realized cockpits and scenic locations, are a perfect fit for the Oculus Rift. So are space sims, for the same reason. Developer Boone Calhoun, realizing this, promptly went to work on an Oculus Rift demo of the Death Star trench run from Star Wars Here’s one…

World’s Largest Star Wars Collection Includes a Working Cantina

Rancho Obi-Wan, a Star Wars museum in Northern California, holds 300,000 unique Star Wars-related pieces, earning it the Guinness World Record for the “Largest Collection of Star Wars Memorabilia.” Steve Sansweet, former LucasFilm employee and curator of Rancho Obi-Wan, says that when Star Wars came out, he was “hooked from the very beginning.” His passion…