Star Wars

Pile Of Industry Awards For Star Wars: The Old Republic a Sad Reminder of the Game That Might Have Been

The Game Developers Choice Online awards exist to give folks in the gaming industry a chance to highlight and celebrate the work of their peers in online games. This year’s award ceremony took place last night in Austin. The full list of winners includes nods to Diablo III for best audio and League of Legends…

A Simple Change To a Star Wars Video Game Helped Me Fight Depression

I am a very flawed individual. I am physically flawed, sure, but mostly when I say I am flawed I am referring to my mental state. In the past 17 months, I have had frequent visits with both a psychiatrist and a therapist, and we have been taking aim at those flaws. We have made…

This Halloween, C-3PO and R2-D2 Are Dressing up as Pokémon (or Mario)

Artist Andrea Gerstmann has some ideas for Star Wars‘ most famous droids. In particular, what they can wear this Halloween. It’s a little cosplayception, what with them being characters within characters, but I like it. I can hear them arguing over them already. “What makes you think there are Princesses over there?” “Beep Beep” etc…

Before There Was Angry Birds: Star Wars, There Was Fanmade Angry Birds: Star Wars

Angry Birds: Star Wars doesn’t look half bad! I really like the art style, and if this game adds as many neat new features as Angry Birds Space did a few months ago, it should be really interesting. Now that the crazy crossover is official, it seems like a good time to remember that almost…

Angry Birds: Star Wars Arrives on November 8. We’re Not Making This Up!

Yep. Angry Birds + Star Wars. Just announced this morning by the Angry Birds folks at Rovio. The game will be out for iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, Mac, PC, Windows Phone and Windows 8. Peter Vesterbacka, chief marketing man at Angry Birds studio Rovio calls the game “the best Angry Birds game we’ve ever…

Japan’s Amazing Drink Can Sculptures Will Melt Your Mind

Makaon has a hobby. She likes to make sculptures of pop culture characters as well as insects, animals, and more. But she doesn’t use clay. She doesn’t use stone. Makaon uses cans. Beer cans, soda cans, cocktail cans, and energy drink cans are her palette, which she uses to create her mind-blowingly wonderful work. Makaon…

Robotic Admiral Ackbar Cosplay Isn’t a Trap, it’s a Masterpiece

This isn’t just an Admiral Ackbar suit. That would be too easy. This Admiral Ackbar cosplay outfit is part-man, part-Mon Calamari and part-robot Artist, sculptor and costume builder Tom Cuthbert is the genius behind (most of) this costume, which features an animatronic suite (installed by Daniel Valdez) in the head to power the Alliance Admiral’s…

Smash an AT-AT Full of Pigs in the Angry Birds/Star Wars Toy Line

Teased on Friday, we knew that some kind of a crossover between Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise and Star Wars was coming. It’s a natural pairing, given the enormous mainstream reach of those names and their owners’ willingness to license it in the toy space. Well that’s exactly what’s coming. It’s a toy line set to…

It Looks Like The Angry Birds Are Getting A Star Wars Crossover

It appears that some kind of Star Wars and Angry Birds crossover is in the works. Rovio launched a new Angry Birds tumblr account today, with this sneaky *.gif. What is the black bird doing with that cloak and lightsaber? Apparently the world will find out on Monday morning, with an announcement live from New…

Report: Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s lead designer has apparently left BioWare.

Fifteen Seconds of Empire Strikes Back, Turned Into an Old Video Game

Remember Star Wars Uncut? That brilliant project where artists all over the world could submit their own interpretations of fifteen seconds’ worth of Star Wars, then have it all cut into the one insane movie? Well it’s back. With Empire Strikes Back Uncut And just like last time, it looks like it’s going to feature…

A More “Human” Yoda is Creepy. So, So Creepy.

Sculptor Andrea Eusebi is the target for your applause here with this stunning recreation – and reinterpretation – of Jedi Master Yoda. Built almost entirely from modelling clay, there’s a certain poignancy about the whole thing, because with a more human face he starts to look a lot like Mel Brooks. Who played the Yoda…

Um, What’s This Secret Star Wars Game on Xbox Live Arcade?

For whatever reason, web designers Gifted Apollo went trawling on Xbox.com, and scooped up the image files for pretty much every Xbox Live Arcade game on the server. Even the ones that aren’t out yet and which we know nothing about. Like Star Wars: First Assault With no announcement or official word from Lucasarts on…

The Battle of Hoth Recreated in Minecraft, as an Incredible Animated Short

In December, reader Grahame made one of the coolest Minecraft videos I’ve ever seen, recreating Star Wars’ famous “trench run”. He’s outdone himself now, though, with this animated rendition of Empire Strikes Back’s Battle of Hoth. It took him two months just to build the “set”, and six days to film it and get it…

If Star Wars Had Been Made in the 1950’s, Alec Guinness Could Have Been a Dashing Han Solo

Canadian artist Dean Reeves has taken Star Wars back to a galaxy an even longer time ago, away from the 1970s and back a little further to film noir’s heyday of the 1950s. I would so buy these to frame and hang up and…oh, you can buy them. Awesome. GraphicLanguage [Etsy, via Super Punch]

The Greatest Star Wars Battle You Never Saw

Did you ever, as a kid, re-enact pivotal moments from the Star Wars trilogy? I know I did. Hell, I’d have done it as a teenager playing X-Wing if I’d had an orange jumpsuit lying around. You probably never did something this cool though: a complete re-enactment of the Battle of Hoth, complete with AT-AT…

You Don’t Need To Go to Tatooine To Visit the Star Wars Slave Quarters

You do need to go to Tunisia, which doubled as Tatooine spaceport Mos Espa. It was what Anakin Skywalker called home and the locale for the podrace in Star Wars: Episode I. Real people now live on the abandoned set, but not all of Mos Espa was created by Hollywood. Ksar Hadada in Tunisia served…

Sure, The Old Republic Is Going Free-to-Play but EA Prez Says Subscriptions Aren’t Dead Yet

It’s inevitable. It’s the future. It’s what people want. Everywhere you turn, gaming execs and pundits have been trumpeting the shift to free-to-play by saying some variation of those statements. Games like DC Universe Online and Everquest have seen huge population bumps by going F2P, even if there’s anger that comes with that shift. With…

Star Wars, Dead Space, Transformers, This is Some of the Best Nerd Art on the Planet

Ryan Church is about as close to the top of the concept art world as you can get. He’s worked on Star Wars movies. He’s working on the new Star Trek movies. He’s worked on Avatar, Transformers and John Carter. In addition to all that movie stuff, though, he’s also found time to lend a…

Star Wars Meets Ancient Rome, When Senates Were More Interesting

Custom toy builder Sillof has made quite a name for himself in the past few years turning random action figures into themed, fantasy sets of Star Wars pieces. His previous efforts, like Second World War and Steampunk Star Wars, were great, but this latest one might be the best of all, if only for the…