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Star Wars Could Only be Gayer if They Gave the Millennium Falcon a Handlebar Moustache
Publisher Electronic Arts has taken a bit of flak lately over the fact video games let you be, or even be around, gay people in space. Said flak has mostly come from homophobic assholes, but still, flak is flak. It’s an argument other media has had to deal with for years and will for years…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 15, 2012 -
Star Wars: The Old Republic Expands Free Month Offer to Include Less Valuable Players
Yesterday BioWare made a substantial portion of Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s player base angry by offering a free month of play to its “most valued” players—those that had reached level 50 in the game. Today the developer continues to surprise and delight players by expanding the promotion as to not alienate people. While the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2012 -
Star Wars: The Old Republic Manages to Piss Off Players By Handing Out Free Game Time
After all the trouble Star Wars: The Old Republic has seen since its launch late last year, BioWare today decided to reward its “most valued players” that stuck with the game a free month of game time. How could that possibly go wrong? It’s all about the definition of “most valued players”. BioWare apparently defines…
By Mike Fahey Published April 12, 2012 -
The Star Wars Game Lucasarts Should Have Made, But Never Did
This is very exciting. Nearly three years ago, I did a story on Han Solo Adventures, a fan-made project looking to bring the world the 1990s Lucasarts x Star Wars adventure game it never actually got. Given this was three years ago, I’d given the project up for dead, but no. In the last few…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 11, 2012 -
Anti-Gay Star Wars Complainers Now Complaining About Spambots
Who is waging the public opinion battle between anti-gay “family values” groups and the video game creators who dared to allow same-sex romance in their massive new Star Wars game? The anti-gay crowd says the Star Wars defenders are getting help from spam-bots. (Would they be spam-droids?) Anti-gay controversy over The Old Republic began in…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 10, 2012 -
The 1.2 Update Warzone for Star Wars: The Old Republic Is Pretty Good
MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic has been churning along pretty well since its launch late in December of last year. Developer BioWare is now preparing to release update 1.2 for the game, which will add a rather significant amount of content. One of the features arriving in SW:TOR with the 1.2 update is the…
By Kate Cox Published April 9, 2012 -
Rancor vs AT-ST Walker: Who Would Win?
Well, according to the brushwork of artist Benjamin Carre, it’s the Rancor with a KO. Oh, don’t look so shocked. If you can bring an AT-ST down with logs and rope-swinging wookies, you can certainly bring one down with a beast that exists only to eat and destroy things. Monsters [DeviantArt, via Super Punch]
By Luke Plunkett Published April 9, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Star Wars Needed More Smoothtroopper Crotch Grabbing
So did Kinect Star Wars, for that matter. This totally unlicensed shirt was spotted by writer Brian Michael Bendis in Tokyo. It’s glorious. Check out Kotaku‘s Kinect Star Wars review here. Check out this shirt somewhere in Tokyo. Infringe-a-licious Tokyo tee: best Star Wars shirt ever? [BoingBoing]
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2012 -
Let Me Show You What Doesn’t Work In Kinect Star Wars—And What Does
Kinect Star Wars is not the world’s greatest new video game. I’ve said as much in my review. But you should see this game’s failures—and its triumphs—for yourself. Watch the video and allow me to demonstrate. As you watch, bear in mind that this game might be lovely for little kids who have a high…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 5, 2012 -
There Won’t Be Another Skywalker if You Use Star Wars Condoms
While it can’t be that long until we see something more official along these lines, for now, artist Benedetto Papi’s ideas for Star Wars condoms are as close to Galactic contraception as we’re going to get. Not sold on the quotes, though. May I suggest (and these will be abbreviated to fit on the packaging):…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2012 -
Homophobes Slam EA With Thousands of Letters Over Same-Sex Romance
The past year has seen a great deal of discussion about the existence of same-sex romance options in EA and BioWare’s Mass Effect franchise and their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic One recent, particularly irrational anti-gay “family values” campaign has kicked off a wave of thousands of letters to EA disapproving of the addition…
By Kate Cox Published April 4, 2012 -
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 -
ReviewsKinect 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