Star Wars

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…

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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,…

Hanging Out with Darth Vader Sure Seems Fun

Camping. Skateboarding. Getting your hair done. If you’re a looking for a buddy, Darth Vader is the Sith Lord you want. Vader appears in the Samsung Galaxy spots for Japanese mobile carrier Docomo. Debuting last fall, the commercial is part of the “Walk with You” series of commercials that turns celebrities in personified cell phones…

Return of the Jedi LEGO Has a Freakin’ Sarlacc Pit

There’s been a lot of great Star Wars LEGO over the years, but these two new sets, both based on the opening of Return of the Jedi, are my new favourites. The first set is Jabba’s Palace ($120). It not only has a moving throne platform, for trapping Luke beneath while he sticks bones in…

Air Force Dad Surprises Son by Coming Home as a Jedi Knight

Col. Rob Kiebler spent 14 months away from his family serving with the US Air Force, both training and on a tour of Afghanistan. He recently returned home, and having not seen his son for over a year, wanted to really surprise him. Adorable. What just about brought the tears down for me, though, was…

Star Wars: The Old Republic Is Going Free-To-Play This Fall

BioWare’s massively multiplayer online RPG Star Wars: The Old Republic will go free-to-play this fall, publisher Electronic Arts said today. EA later said in a press release that The Old Republic will go free-to-play this November. The game will be available for $15 starting August 7, a price that also includes a month of free…

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How The First Death Star Was Built

You see the Death Star being built in Revenge of the Sith, but only from a distance. You see the second Death Star under construction during Return of the Jedi, but you don’t actually see it being constructed. There’s no extended footage of imperial workers swinging space hammers, popping galactic rivets or doubling their efforts.…

The Hello Kitty Dolls of Your Dreams

One of the ways Hello Kitty stays relevant is to turn itself into a feline billboard to promote other things. Recently, that’s meant the birth of an array of interesting Kitty-chan collaborations—like a Hello Kitty X Ringu tie-up that was used to promote the horror series’ latest spin-off. Artist Joseph Senior goes one step further—and…

Star Wars Used to be Uncool. Pinball Helped Bring it Back.

This Star Wars pinball machine wasn’t released in the 70s, or 80s. It was released in 1992, which makes it very special, because that makes it part of the great Star Wars renaissance. After the hype over the original trilogy died down after the mid-80s, as weird as it is to imagine now, Star Wars…

A Child’s Sketchbook From the 1980s, Preserved For the 21st Century

From 2012, let’s take a trip back to the 1980s, and what it was like to be a kid drawing the stuff you were into. Some of the images you’re about to see are ostensibly part of “schoolwork”, others drawings scribbled in the rear pages of a book where there was supposed to be stuff…

Star Wars’ Best Scenes Recreated With Action Figures (by a Comedian)

Colin Mochrie, who should be well-known to anyone who’s ever seen an episode of ad-lib comedy spectacular Whose Line is it Anyway?, here grabs some Star Wars figures and re-enacts some of his favourite scenes. If you’re wondering why, at least initially, so many lines are “wrong”, see again his job description, above. Collin Mochire’s…