Star Wars

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…

You’ll Wish It Was Winter Already After You See This Snowspeeder Sled In Action

Why no one built this until now, 32 years after The Empire Strikes Back, I don’t know. But this enterprising builder, “fortyozjuicebox,” assembled a compact, cardboard version of a Snowspeeder and, at the :40 mark of that video above, races it downhill at a sledding derby. The video, however, doesn’t show the level of detail that…

“Star Wars: First Assault” has been trademarked for “interactive video games”, among other things.

Because You Need to See More Bums & Strippers From the Star Wars Universe

That old Ben Kenobi really was a damn fool. Mos Eisley wasn’t the galaxy’s most wretched hive of scum and villainy. It wasn’t even Tatooine’s (um, Jabba’s Palace?)! No, you want scummy villains, you head to the planet where all the action is: Coruscant. This concept art from the upcoming Star Wars 1313 revels in…

Check Out These Clips From The Robot Chicken Guys’ New, Lucas-Approved Star Wars Parody

File this one under: “What the hell do I even do with this information?” The guys behind Robot Chicken (including Joker himself, Seth Green) are making a new animated show called Star Wars Detours that will mercilessly, if lovingly, mock Star Wars. George Lucas has even given them his stamp of approval. Is this terrible?…

1313 Will Take You Down to Star Wars Hell

It’s always pretty clean and well-lit in Star Wars movies, isn’t it? Even a place as wretched as the Mos Eisley cantina seems like it wouldn’t have a problem passing a health code inspection. So, where does all the dirt go in the Skywalker-verse? Apparently, it’s all going into Star Wars 1313 The video above…

When Giant Buildings Look Silly

Okay, let’s be fair. The PS3 is not silly looking. Nor is Batman or an elephant. But buildings that resemble them? Or saltshakers? And sperm? Silly. Japanese website Heaven has a round up of buildings from across the globe that either accidentally resemble things—or totally resemble them by design. Some of the buildings Kotaku has…

Darth Malgus Will Crush Every Apple in The Galaxy

When compared to a $6000, life-sized statue of the man, a $375 statue of Old Republic’s Darth Malgus suddenly doesn’t seem as expensive, does it? The Sith Lord “Premium Format Figure” (but actually a statue) by Sideshow goes on sale in March 2013. At 20″ tall and with a real fabric cape, you can pre-order…

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II is now available on Steam. It’s great! But get this first

Incredible Star Wars Posters Are The Good, The Bad & The Ugnaught

Artist Timothy Anderson has combined two of mankind’s greatest creations – Star Wars and spaghetti westerns – and combined them in this series of posters, in which George Lucas’ sci-fi trilogy is shown off like they were the kind of movies Clint Eastwood would star – and squint in – a lot. The bad news…

Star Wars’ Intro Eaten Alive By 30 Rock’s

The classic opening to Star Wars gets a little shorter and a lot more contemporary when it’s smashed together with the intro to comedy series 30 Rock. You can see this clip and the original running side-by-side here. Just in case you needed to check how well it’s been done. It’s only seeing them like…

Star Wars Looks Rad as a 1980s Teen Movie

Yeah, the first Star Wars was released in 1977, but for most, the franchise is a staple of the decade that came after. Something artist Denis Medri plays on with these awesome images, reimagining the heroes and villains of George Lucas’ universe as the cast of a 1980s teen movie. Yup. Sounds faintly ridiculous, until…

Oh Man, This New Star Wars Game Looks Gorgeous

We have no idea how well the newest Star Wars game, 1313, plays. From what little of it we’ve seen, it appears to be your standard third-person, cover-based shooter. But boy does it look amazing. This trailer, the game’s first proper clip for public consumption, mixes footage we saw at E3 with some new stuff,…

What if Assassin’s Creed Looked More Like Star Wars?

This futuristic take on what looks like Ezio, from the Assassin’s Creed series, was designed by artist Davis Lim. It takes the Renaissance killer and drops him squarely in the future. Or, if you prefer, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. I’m getting a very “Old Republic” feel from that armour…

Report: BioWare Honcho Leaving Star Wars: Old Republic Studio

Tattoos are forever! Well, sorta. Gigs at game companies? Less so. BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has apparently left BioWare Austin, the studio behind the beleaguered MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic According to Zeschuk’s LinkedIn page, he lists his BioWare Austin position as “past”, seeming to indicate that he has left the post. The move…

Maybe Yoda Was Actually Horrible, Awful, and Totally Evil

Fairly or unfairly, Star Wars creator George Lucas is often pegged as public enemy number one for a variety of reasons. But for sci-fi author David Brin, there’s another baddie: Yoda. Brin, a NASA consultant and a Dreamcast game scribe, has discussed his distaste for both Lucas’ work and the Jedi Master on multiple occasions—such…

Samurai Meets Star Wars in a More Civilized Boba Fett Helmet

Samurai. Skyrim. Or even ancient Mayan prophecies. Star Wars helmets are fertile ground for artistic reinterpretation. But now, it’s all for a cause that’s bigger than simply awesome art. The As You Wish Helmet Project is a charity art endeavor that features over 40 reworked Boba Fett and Clone Trooper helmets to be auctioned off,…