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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 -
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 RecallThe 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 -
When Star Wars Meets High Fashion, AT-AT Drivers Ride French Bicycles
Artist John Woo throws together two very unlikely things – high fashion and the characters of Star Wars – in his “He Wears It” series of prints and images. Don’t let the name fool you, there are ladies as well. And some characters from outside the Star Wars universe, like the T-1000. But mostly, it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
Hey, LucasArts—How About Making a Star Wars NBA Game?
We get sent weird and hilarious emails all the time, but there is a subtle brilliance to what one Australian reader, Chris, is proposing. I’ll just offer it here, verbatim: Hi Owen, Mate, would love to see LucasArts bring out a Star Wars sports game, featuring arcade-style NBA, NFL, baseball and NHL. I would love…
By Owen Good Published March 16, 2012 -
This Weekend, Play Star Wars: The Old Republic For Free
BioWare’s galactic MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic normally costs money to play, but not this weekend. And by “weekend” I actually mean Thursday through Monday, because as EA rightly assumes, if you can’t afford a subscription, you might not be doing much on Friday anyways. Beginning Thursday, March 15 at 12:01AM CT and running…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012 -
Great Moments In Gaming Humor, Liquidious Fleshbag
The companion characters in Mass Effect are living, breathing, loving characters with unique personalities and motivations. They are also pretty boring. They could learn a lot from HK-47, the assassin droid from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. “Correction: Assassination is my primary function. I also possess excellent hearing and can bend spoons.” The…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2012 -
Will the Next Star Wars: The Old Republic Update Make it the Game You Want to Play?
Today BioWare released a video outlining the sweeping changes coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic in game update 1.2. With the evolution of the game’s Legacy system and new Warzones, Flashpoints, and Operations in the pipes, is it sad that what I’m most excited about is new lightsaber colors? Yes, this is very sad,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2012