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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)…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 8, 2013 -
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 7, 2013 -
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 7, 2013 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 7, 2013 -
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.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2013 -
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…
By Jason Schreier Published May 6, 2013 -
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2013 -
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.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2013 -
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]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2013 -
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…
By Owen Good Published May 4, 2013 -
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…
By Shane Roberts Published May 4, 2013 -
Zen Studios brings its pinball platform to Steam on May 10, with a free download for Pinball FX 2 and six expansion packs priced at $9.99 each — Star Wars, Marvel, Marvel: Vengeance and Virtue, Marvel: Avengers Chronicles, the Pinball FX2 Core Collection and Zen Classics.
By Mike Fahey Published May 3, 2013 -
The Moneysaver: Star Wars/Trek Blu-rays, Last Day for $20 Tomb Raider
Videogames and movies. It’s the best of both worlds. Today is the day to finally pick up all those Star Wars and Star Trek blu-rays you want on your shelf but have never pulled the trigger on. All the films from both franchises are on sale, along with a nice pre-order deal for Next Generation:…
By Shane Roberts Published April 29, 2013 -
Minor league baseball’s Toledo Mud Hens—the favored team of cross-dressing jeep-eater Cpl. Maxwell Klinger—will take the field on May 4 (of course) in these Chewbacca-inspired jerseys, part of a “Star Wars Weekend” promotion. They’ll be auctioned off at the games.
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2013 -
Someone’s Done A Speedrun Of Star Wars. The Movie.
A speedrun is normally something you associate with a video game, when a player tries to get through a game as fast as is humanly (or sometimes inhumanly) possible. Here, though, we see a movie speedrun. An animated whirlwind tour of Star Wars: Episode IV. Funny how good the movie is even when you’re not…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2013 -
See How Star Wars & Transformers Figures Are Made
Our pals at Gizmodo were lucky enough to take a trip out to Hasbro recently, where they sat in with the folks responsible for designing the company’s prototype action figures. In the amazing video above, we get to meet some of the people behind the toy’s design, see how models are built in 3D printers…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2013 -
A New Trailer For The Best Star Wars Movie George Lucas Never Made
Star Wars Uncut, the fan-made project that saw scenes from Episode IV recreated however the hell people wanted to then smooshed into a complete film, is back with a sequel. Empire Strikes Back Uncut isn’t done yet, but the trailer above shows good progress is being made. Very good progress. Empire Strikes Back Uncut [Site,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2013 -
True Love Is Dressing Your Dog Like A Star Wars Animal
These four costumes are real products, not late April Fools gags. You can preorder them now, and one day soon, your dog (or capybara) can look just like a beast of burden from the Star Wars universe. The Bantha is good, because it blends into many dog’s natural colour schemes, but boy, as a former…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2013