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Barely Feeling the Force in Kinect Star Wars

For as long as brothers have swatted one another with wrapping-paper tubes, Star Wars fans have wanted something, anything, to give them the sensation of wielding a lightsaber, repelling blaster fire and cutting down Stormtroopers in a streak of blue. That, too, is the goal of Kinect Star Wars and all who are making it…

The More They Keep Telling Me Star Wars: The Old Republic Isn’t Like World of Warcraft, the Less I Want to Play

I just had a hands-on demo with the hugely anticipated massively multiplayer role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic, but after an hour of watching self-described sizzle reels of prerendered and in-game footage, showing casually pirouetting Jedi and environments full of foxfire and crepitating tails of energy, I couldn’t actually make myself actually play the…

Kinect Star Wars Will Make You Say ‘Lightsaber ON!’

We showed you Kinect Star Wars last night. And today we’ve seen it played on stage. A lengthy play-through showed scenes pulled from several eras of Star Wars fiction, predominantly from the Clone Wars and prequel era. A live on-stage demo involved a player swinging their arms to swing a lightsaber, holding their hand out…

You May Not Want to Watch This Footage of Kinect Star Wars

Not if you care about video games. Or Star Wars Don’t just take note of the lag present when Kinect evangelist Kudo Tsunoda swings his lightsaber. Take a look at when he “jumps”, and his on-screen jedi doesn’t begin to somersault until Kudo has already landed. Oh dear. You can check out a slicker, less…

I Can Abide This Jawa Sandcrawler

Marshal Banana is just the right name for the person responsible for this enormous custom LEGO Sandcrawler, because this shit is b-a-n-a-n-a-s. It’s made of over 10,000 LEGO bricks, weighs 10kg, rolls, lowers its door and even sucks up droids. All that for “only” nine months design and building time. [thanks everyone!]

George Lucas Strikes Back: The REAL story behind the prequels

Check out this pretty hilarious fake trailer for George Lucas Strikes Back, a story about the original George, not the evil doppelganger Hollywood created to ruin the Star Wars legacy. It’s full of insane Star Wars references and weird nods to other series — and you’ll never suspect who’s really behind the plot to replace…

Jedis Are Such Assholes

Some Jedi are unnervingly good. Others are evil to their very core. And others, well, they’re just bros, hangin’ out, bein’ assholes. If the humour and special effects seem a little better than your standard YouTube fare, this is another Facerocker joint. In this case, a sequel to last year’s just as awesome Jedi A-Holes

When Japan Does Star Wars, Things Change

In 1987, Namco released Star Wars in Japan for the Famicom, a title that took more than a few liberties with the movie trilogy’s storyline. Sounds outrageous, but one look at the game’s manual art and everything was suddenly OK. Why? Because the lizards, scorpions and pterodactyls you’re fighting—and that aren’t exactly canon —are so…

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2010 Promises?

Can you believe the hype you hear from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo at each year’s big E3 circus of video games? Year after year, the big three make promises about their consoles and their games. Do they deliver? Each year, we check. Microsoft, last year we had to scold you for some of your unbelievable…

You Will Not Believe These Star Wars Pictures Are Real

These photos (and they are genuine photos, not a photoshops), of Grand Moff Tarkin, were taken in 2011. Yet the man who played the Star Wars villain, screen legend Peter Cushing, died in 1994. How can this be? Because this is a sculpture. A 1:1, lifesize bust of the character, so impressive in its detail…

Your Face on an Action Figure? Badass

Based in Tokyo geek mecca Akihabara, Clone Factory is just that: a factory that makes clones. These clones are not made from flesh and blood, but resin. They are your own personal clones, ready to rule your bookshelf. Blogger Danny Choo from the appropriately named DannyChoo.com checked out Clone Factory, getting his mug measured, digitally…

These Star Wars and Gundam Dioramas Will Melt Your Face

As a kid, I was always impressed with models. I was more impressed with full-blown dioramas—still am. These dioramas, though, aren’t merely impressive; they’re brain-destroying. At the recent Shizuoka Hobby Show, Star Wars and Gundam dioramas nearly stole the whole damn show. The level of detail in these miniature masterpieces is stunning. They’re like those…

Beautiful Star Wars Ships, and a Huge Gundam Head

And joining the spaceships from Star Wars and a Gundam MS-06 Zaku II helmet are mechs from Sega’s Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Japan’s Fine Molds created Star Wars models; pricing here Check out more Shizuoka Hobby Show photos from Japanese website Gigazine in the link below. プラモデルや模型の一大見本市、「第50回静岡ホビーショー」全記事一覧まとめ [Gigazine]

Fully Posable Star Wars Action Figures, in Pixelated Form

Thirtysomething gamers will recognize plenty in this isometric pixelated depiction of the original run of Kenner Star Wars action figures from the first film to Return of the Jedi. I remember Luke Skywalker: Bespin Fatigues, the first action figure with two weapons. Spent the entire summer of 1980 coveting that one. Isometric Star Wars Toys…

Episode IV: A New Earthbound

This piece, throwing Nintendo’s classic Mother RPG series (known as EarthBound in the West) and the original Star Wars together, is just too damn cute for words (via 4CR). Earthbound Star Wars by lauramw

Thank You, Star Wars, For All These Awesome Games

May 4 is Star Wars Day, in honour of, well, the fact “May the 4th” sounds a bit like “May the force…”. Silly, I know, but it also gives us a chance to look back on the amazing video games the sci-fi franchise has given us over the years. And by years, I should really…

EA Says There’s An ‘Outside Possibility’ Star Wars: The Old Republic Could Slip to 2012

BioWare’s ambitious Star Wars massively multiplayer online role-playing game is still officially on the books for a 2011 release, penciled in for the second half of the calendar year—though publisher EA is hesitant to pin it down more specifically. The company mentioned today during an investor call that there’s an “outside possibility” the PC game…

Kinect Lets You Relive the End of Empire Strikes Back

The official Star Wars game for Kinect isn’t looking so hot. This unofficial Star Wars application for the motion-sensing camera, however, looks way cooler. Projecting a “template” block of carbonite in 3D space, Michael Zoellner & Jens Keil have been getting friends and family to pose in their own unique Han-Solo-in-Empire-Strikes-Back dioramas, with the resulting…

Star Wars & Sworcery Is Something That Would Be Welcome Around Here

Artist Slaterman23 has taken an everlasting love (Star Wars) and a love that’s very much of this moment (Sword & Sworcery) and combined the two. Thanks, Slaterman23! His series of works called Star Wars Pixel Posters reimagine some characters from the classic trilogy as characters drawn in the style of the brilliant iPad/iPhone game, complete…