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The Kinect Star Wars Credits Are 22 Minutes Long

We don’t know how many Bothans died to bring us Kinect Star Wars, but we know that a hell of a lot of people worked on the game. For a couple of years, at least. We’ve got at least a half dozen studios listed in the credits, and lots and lots of other names. If…

By Stephen Totilo Published April 4, 2012

More Footage & Screenshots From Canned Star Wars: Battlefront III Surfaces

It was over three years ago that we got our first look at the Star Wars Battlefront game that never was. Now some more footage has surfaced, and it’s of a much better quality. Obtained by website Past to Present Online, there are both decent-quality screenshots and some video footage of an early build of…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 4, 2012

Kinect Star Wars Lures Game Critics to the Dark Side

What a ridiculous, attention-grabbing headline! Everybody knows game reviewers have already succumbed to the dark side; it’s a job requirement. Looking at the scores Kinect Star Wars is pulling in I’m beginning to wonder if there’s an even darker side. The fun thing about Kinect Star Wars (at least from a review perspective) is that…

By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2012

If You Hated Kinect Star Wars Dancing, You’ll Cry Over These GIFs

The dancing in Star Wars: Kinect is admittedly quite silly to say the least. But you don’t need to chalk this latest Star Wars-branded product up to a scar on your childhood memories Instead, let’s celebrate the sheer ridiculousness that is the Star Wars parody dance moves and songs. But apparently a lot of die-hard…

By Tina Amini Published April 3, 2012

Hey, Star Wars Grumps, You’re Making It Even Worse

It’s been popular for far too long to complain about Star Wars. I’m sick of it, because it all sounds to me like a bunch of old people complaining about kids these days. Sorry, haters, but you are living in an era of wonderful Star Wars, and your childhood isn’t being ruined. And I’m not…

By Stephen Totilo Published April 3, 2012

Reviews

Kinect Star Wars: The Kotaku Review

If you know how to use the Internet, you will have little trouble finding people who will tell you that Kinect Star Wars is a bad video game. These people are correct. The combination of one popular thing (Star Wars!) with another popular thing (the magical hands-free Xbox 360 Kinect sensor!) has resulted in one…

By Stephen Totilo Published April 3, 2012

We Dance With Slave Leia To Weird, Lucas-Approved Christina Aguilera Star Wars Remix

We’ve had a copy of Star Wars: Kinect in our New York office for a few days now. Which means, aside from Stephen’s upcoming review, people have been dancing their asses off to pop songs. Pop songs that have been re-worked to include lyrics from the Star Wars universe. While Lando and Boba Fett dance…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 3, 2012

Kid’s Colouring Books Explode With Amazingness

Or, a the project is called, “The Best Coloring Book Ever”. Either label is entirely justified, because unlike the lifeless books kids are actually subjected to, this one has Mario fighting Spider-Man and Starscream It also features a single page with Luke Skywalker running at TMNT’s Raphael while Bumblebee…well, while Bumblebee fucks Luke’s X-Wing. Size…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 2, 2012

The Horror, and the Glory, of Kinect Star Wars’ Dancing Game

There are enough copies of Kinect Star Wars out there in the wild now that people are stating to upload gameplay videos to YouTube. Obviously, we’re only concerned with the dancing battles, because they are at once the most excruciating and enjoyable things about the game. Sure, it’s a wholly unoriginal mechanic, and sure, the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 2, 2012

These Might be Images of Another Cancelled Star Wars: Battlefront Game

In 2010, Kotaku learned that SOCOM and Resident Evil series part-timers Slant Six Games had been working on a game in the Star War universe. Specifically, a new entry in the Battlefront series of multiplayer shooters. While that game was eventually cancelled, a user on website Betagames.org claims to have found a series of images…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 1, 2012

Internet Fixes Yoda’s Speech Disorder

Important to the series he is. Crucial to the development of Luke Skywalker, he was. But God damn was Yoda’s speech pattern annoying, especially in the prequel trilogy, where it felt like George Lucas was purposefully trolling us with it. So in this video, it’s been fixed. Spoken in the correct order, his sentences are.…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 1, 2012

A Message From Princess Leia Is Hidden In Every R2D2-Looking Xbox 360

The special edition Star Wars version of the Xbox 360, which our pals at Gizmodo ogled last summer, looks like R2D2. Fittingly, it packs a secret message from Princess Leia, as you can see from this video that we shot of the unit. We haven’t found any other surprises. And we’re sure there are no…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2012

A Star Wars: Old Republic Figure That Stands Seven Feet Tall, Costs $6000

First announced last year, Sideshow Collectibles has finally unveiled product images and details about its upcoming Darth Malgus statue from Star Wars: Old Republic Just in case you never saw the guy at a gaming show last year, he stands 88″/2.2m high, and weighs 159lbs/72kg. So, yes, when they say he’s “life size”, they’re not…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2012

Batshit Crazy Fake Star Wars Figures are Cooler Than Real Ones

In the late 1980s, a line of bootleg Star Wars figures was released in Turkey called Uzay. What’s so great about these figures isn’t the fact they’re horrible copies of the originals because, given the time, the toys themselves weren’t that bad. What makes them so great is the packaging. It’s just bananas. The Imperial…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

The Star Warsploitation Film That Deserved a Crummy Atari Game

If you’ve never seen 1979’s Starcrash, boy are you missing out. It’s basically a collection of awful special effects, Flash Gordon-style pulp science fiction and a lot of attractive women in small bikinis and thigh-high boots. Of all the bad Star Wars clones that emerged in the wake of George Lucas’ classic, this was one…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2012

Pretending to Use the Force Works Better with Kinect Star Wars

We’re just a week away from the April 3 launch of Kinect Star Wars, the game you get when you buy that sexy new Star Wars Xbox 360 bundle. While my hopes aren’t particularly high for the game, at least it gives pretending to Force Choke someone important context. Kinect Star Wars stands to play…

By Mike Fahey Published March 26, 2012

Family Values Group Rails Against Hypothetical Transgender Darth Vader Video Game

The Florida Family Association, best known for badgering companies into pulling advertising from TLC reality show All-American Muslim last year, is hard at work ranting about a new target: BioWare/EA game Star Wars: The Old Republic. This isn’t the first temper tantrum that supposedly pro-family groups have thrown over The Old Republic, just the most…

By Kate Cox Published March 21, 2012

There’s a Giant Tie Fighter for Sale on Craigslist

There’s a beautiful crackpot in Seattle who is selling a Star Wars Tie Fighter on Craigslist. Not a little toy, or a model that sits on your desk. He’s selling 8 foot x 8 foot replica. Which you can sit in No idea what it was built for, but it’s on wheels, will hold a…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 21, 2012

The Panel Discussion Dozen: 12 Comics That Will Send You Sub-Orbital This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

By Evan Narcisse Published March 20, 2012

International Star Wars Fan Groups Now Accepting The Old Republic as Costume Canon

It may have Lucas’ blessing, but a Star Wars product isn’t a true Star Wars product until the fans accept it into their hearts, or their costuming communities. Both the Light and Dark sides of international Star Wars costuming organizations are now allowing applicants to submit outifts based on BioWare’s massively-multiplayer online role-playing game. While…

By Mike Fahey Published March 19, 2012