Star Wars

The Rebel Alliance’s Secret Weapon Is This Giant Space Kraken

You can’t go wrong with space kraken. I’ve only ever seen two in my lifetime. One was the steed of Mon*Star, the most badass 80s cartoon villain of them all. The other is this one, made out of LEGO by builder Iain Heath, that would make people whimper “that’s no moon….it’s a space-faring giant squid”.…

The Last Months Of LucasArts (And A Glimpse Of Battlefront III)

In November, just after purchasing LucasFilm, Disney CEO Bob Iger held a company-wide meeting. During the meeting, according to a source in attendance, a few people asked what was going on. What was going to happen to them? What was the future of LucasArts, the LucasFilm subsidiary and 30-year-old video game studio responsible for a…

Japanese Teens Are Now Playing Fake Quidditch

Well, that escalated quickly. First, Japanese schoolgirls started uploading photos of faux Dragon Ball moves. Then, Westerners replied with Star Wars style Force Grips. And now? Japanese schoolboys, it seems, are now uploading photos of imaginary Quidditch games. Quidditch, of course, is the broomstick-based team sport from the Harry Potter books. Why “imaginary”? There already…

Fans of classic Star Wars game Jedi Outcast should know that Raven’s Mike Gummelt popped into our comments section today to discuss with readers the development of the game. And share amazing starfighter mods. Well worth a read

Before It Was Cancelled, Star Wars 1313 Was Going To Be About Boba Fett

We’ve learned a great deal about Star Wars 1313 over the past few months, and today we’ve got one more huge detail thanks to a reliable Kotaku source: last year, just before E3, LucasArts shifted focus and turned it into a game about the masked bounty hunter Boba Fett. This happened last May. Star Wars…

Lucasarts’ Closure Convinces Developers To Release Awesome Star Wars Source Code

In the wake of Lucasarts’ closure today, Raven – the developers of the thoroughly excellent Jedi Outcast – have decided to release the source code for the game. Oh, and the code for its sequel, Jedi Academy, as well. The move should please modders, who have been hounding the studio – and who in turn…

This Is Why You Don’t Give Lightsabers To Toddlers

They let anyone have lightsabers these days, including babies. But good luck trying to get the lightsaber back from a little kid without some casualties. Let this video by gnarlytooth serve as a lesson in why we need stricter lightsaber laws, or at least, pressure for manufacturers to stop making lightsabers for toddlers. I mean,…

A Thousand Voices Cry Out for LucasArts, in Eulogies of 140 Characters

LucasArts, a nearly 30-year-old cornerstone brand in video gaming,said today it would cease all development. It was more than a publisher of Star Wars video games, like Dark Forces or X-Wing. LucasArts gave us point-and-click adventures from the halcyon days of the genre, like The Secret of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Maniac Mansion and Full…

Disney Shuts Down LucasArts, Cancels Star Wars 1313 And Star Wars: First Assault

Disney has laid off the staff of LucasArts and cancelled all current projects. Staff were informed of the shutdown this morning, according to a reliable Kotaku source. Some 150 people were laid off, and both of the studio’s current projects—Star Wars: First Assault and Star Wars 1313—were cancelled. Disney will still use the LucasArts name…

Junk Vader Finds Your Lack of Horns Disturbing

Gabriel Dishaw calls himself an up-cycler or “junk artist.” Basically, what he does is he takes small components from various old, dismantled mechanical devices, and creates something wonderful out of them. Up top is his newest work, something he calls the Red Stag Vader. In fact, he’s done several Vaders: This one’s the aptly named…

Dragon Ball Photo Meme Has New Competition: Darth Vader

It started with a Japanese schoolgirl trend: Kids doing anime style attacks and uploading their pics to Twitter. The trend went global, with people all around the world doing their version of Dragon Ball moves. Now, that meme has some new competition: The Dark Side of the Force. Say hello to “Vadering”. The trend began…

Of Course Somebody Had To Find A Star Wars LEGO Set “Culturally Insensitive”

The new Jabba’s Palace LEGO set is one of the best in recent years from the Danish company, condensing nearly all of the main elements of an enormous location into a neat, compact playset. You’d think that would grant it universal acclaim, but no. Somebody, somewhere had to take political issue with it. That someone…

The rough 1974 draft of George Lucas’ original script for Star Wars – complete with early concept art – is being turned into a comic series

Pilots, you are required to maneuver straight down this Death Star trench, constructed within Minecraft, and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide.

Han Couldn’t Have Shot First With A LEGO Blaster

LEGO builder CaptainInfinity is the man behind this beautiful Star Wars blaster, which has such intricate detail on the finer points you’d think it was a very expensive, official set. If you were wondering, yes, it’s to scale, so if you had a 1:1 scale LEGO Greedo in the house, you could get some bricky…

Our buddies over at Gizmodo say French astronomers have found a real-life version of Tatooine

Terrible Star Wars Figures Become Incredible Video Game Figures

Dan from Chicago Toy Collector has taken some crummy old original Star Wars figures – and come on, nostalgia aside, with that range of movement they were crummy – and turned them into something a little more video gamey. Cannibalising parts (I can see some Bespin Cloud Car pilots, Leia and Obi-Wan) and doing some…

A Brilliant Poster For The New Star Wars Movie, Starring The Original Cast’s Old Faces

So, the next Star Wars movie will most likely feature appearances by many of the original cast members from the 1977-1983 trilogy. That’s…kinda good news, on paper, but remember, 1983 was a loooong time ago. These guys don’t quite look the way they used to. As this awesome mock-up poster by artist Adam Schickling shows…

For those of us who enjoyed the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon, here’s a bummer of an update: With the show abruptly cancelled—save for a few web extras—they’re not even going to reveal the fate of two of the series’ main characters. That’s despite five years of the creators saying we could expect them to.…

Leaked Footage Of Star Wars‘ Newest Take On Battlefield And Call of Duty [UPDATE]

Over the past few days, I’ve been talking to multiple sources about Star Wars: First Assault, the troubled multiplayer shooter that could be LucasArts’s downloadable take on Battlefield and Call of Duty Today Kotaku can reveal gameplay footage from the Star Wars shooter, which has not been announced and may never actually make it out…