Star Wars

Patton Oswalt’s Amazing Star Wars Episode VII Rant, Brought To Life

The totally improvised, 7 1/2 minute filibuster from an episode of NBC’s Parks & Recreation last month, in which Patton Oswalt outlines his vision of Star Wars: Episode VII (with Marvel crossovers) could not possibly have been more perfect, could it? Well, yes, it could, actually … YouTube video uploaded by iZacLess To contact the…

Star Wars, Dr. Who Fans Get Into The Lamest “Fight” Of All Time

A long-standing rivalry between two sci-fi fan groups in England boiled over earlier this week when Star Wars and Dr. Who fans had a “bitter exchange” outside a convention. When the treasurer of Norwich Star Wars Club Jim Poole turned up and tried to get the autograph of Dr. Who actor (and Bill superstar!) Graham…

New Star Wars Games Might Bring Back Old Series

Despite big layoffs in other areas, publisher Electronic Arts is opening a brand new office in Los Angeles for Battlefield developers DICE, the Wall Street Journal reports. The office isn’t a development studio per se; it’s there to “help with recruiting talent” for the company’s upcoming Star Wars games, which the report says are still…

Now We Can All Be Kitty Girls And Boys In The Old Republic

In case you just hopped on the MMO bandwagon with the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, it’s not a massively multiplayer party until the anthropomorphic animals arrive. The original EverQuest had the Vah Shir, World of Warcraft has Worgen and now Pandas, and The Old Republic has the Cathar, a race of intergalactic…

Photographer Finds Ruins Of Luke Skywalker’s Original Desert Home

While there are some attempts at preserving them for future generations, the fact is most of the sets used in the Tunisian desert for the Star Wars films – either the classic or prequel trilogy – have fallen into disrepair. Something that New York photographer Rä di Martino has captured beautifully in these photos taken…

The Slow Decay Of Classic Star Wars Figures

Those in need of a time-waster for the rest of the day need look no further than Merchandising Is Forever, a blog that does nothing but post pictures – and gifs – of the “minute variations in deterioration over time” on old Star Wars figures. I just…can’t stop staring. And remembering how, yeah, the paper…

If You Play Board Games, You’ll Know This Man’s Art

Henning Ludvigsen is art director at Rock Pocket Games, so if you like the colourful, cartoony style of upcoming platformer Oliver & Spike, he’s one of the people to thank. You should also thank him if you’ve ever played anything from Fantasy Flight Games. For the tabletop and card game giants Ludvigsen has lent his…

Fusible reports that Lucasfilm has registered a whole bunch of domain names pertaining to Star Wars, including “Order 67,” “Wookiee Hunters” and “Gungan Frontier.” Also, “Bothan Spies,” ’cause hey, why not.

Just Cause Devs Nearly Made A Star Wars Game

Ah, what could have been. In the wake of EA and Disney’s blockbuster deal to make new Star Wars games, the developers of the Just Cause series have come out and said that, a few years back, they came very close to making a game for former owners Lucasarts. A former Avalanche manager (Oskar Burman)…

Electronic Arts will not be publishing any Star Wars video games in the coming fiscal year, the company told investors in a quarterly earnings call today. Yesterday, EA and Disney announced an exclusive partnership to make games.

The Entire Intro To Star Wars, Remade In Minecraft

If the original Star Wars movie was shot in Minecraft, a) we’d be living in an era of time travel (please let us know when Half-Life 3‘s coming out. Thanks.) and b) it’d look like the video above. One out of two ain’t bad. Check out the start of A New Hope, Minecraft-style. The short…

School Janitor Wins Internet with Amazing Zelda Drawings

Most janitors are satisfied with keeping things clean. This junior high school custodian might be, too, but also has a hankering to do something else: Draw incredible pictures. Spotted on a school cafeteria whiteboard, these awesome drawings depict things like Link from The Legend of Zelda. Here’s Midna and Wolf Link from Twilight Princess. These…

Of Course There Are Infomercials In The Star Wars Universe

While commercial influences in the original trilogy are non-existant, the prequel films saw fit to properly introduce the Star Wars universe to the notion of canonical enterprise. Namely, with giant advertisements and billboards. So this clip, bizarrely, isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibility. Mashing together several infomercials, it gives us a rare glimpse…

EA Buying Star Wars Might Not Be All Bad

The news that EA has locked down the rights to Star Wars games has, understandably, been met with a fair amount of backlash. Electronic Arts is far from people’s most trusted and beloved publisher of video games, and fans are worried this will somehow be bad news for the future of Star Wars video games.…

EA Snags Exclusive Deal To Make Star Wars Games

The gaming giant behind everything from Madden to Battlefield to Need for Speed is now the gaming giant behind Star Wars too. EA has secured an exclusive license to publish and develop Star Wars games, the company announced today. EA studios DICE (Battlefield) and Visceral (Dead Space) will both make new games in the popular…

EA Meets Star Wars… With the Help of Some Photoshop

If any intrepid readers want to cook up a quick Need for Speed: Most Podracer, Battlefront: Bad Company or even a Death Star Space (ok, that last one doesn’t really work), send it over. We’ll publish and give you credit. Thanks! UPDATE: OK, here we go. Death Star Space up top is from Kotaku reader…

X-Wing Tabletop Game Pays Awesome Tribute To Dark Forces

The X-Wing Miniatures tabletop game, which I like very much, has a new line of tiny little spacecraft on the way. Joining the eight units already available (Xwing, A-Wing, Y-Wing, TIE Fighter, TIE Interceptor, TIE Advanced, Slave One & the Falcon) are four new ships. They are the B-Wing, Lambda-Class Shuttle, TIE Bomber and HWK-290.…

Aussie Star Wars Isn’t Exactly Canon

This is Aussie Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Bloke. For those living outside the antipodes, think of it as anthropology meets popular culture, because just about every reference they drop in this thing is perfect Aussie Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Bloke [YouTube]

Celebrate Star Wars Day with a Livestream of Battlefront III [Update]

This just popped up on Twitch.tv, it’s a livestream of pre-alpha gameplay of the long-lamentedStar Wars: Battlefront III, by Past to Present Online Though reports suggested the game was “99 percent done” when LucasArts scrapped it, obviously you’re seeing something in a pre-alpha state here. Word is that this version, by Free Radical, came eight…

Moneysaver One-Shot: May The Fourth Be With You

That’s no moon, it’s The Moneysaver. Looking for the current Moneysaver roundup? Click here May the deals be with you. The first thing you need to know is that it’s FREE Comic Book Day. Click for all the details. We’re rounding up the best deals today on everything Star Wars, and if you find a…