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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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 6, 2011 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2011 -
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!]
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2011 -
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…
By Meredith Woerner Published June 2, 2011 -
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
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2011 -
Culture
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2011 -
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…
By Mike Epstein Published May 24, 2011 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 23, 2011 -
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 20, 2011 -
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 16, 2011 -
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]
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 13, 2011 -
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…
By Owen Good Published May 12, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallThank 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…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2011 -
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…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 4, 2011 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 3, 2011 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 2, 2011 -
Leaked Kinect Star Wars Doc Reveals Pod Racing, Rancor Stomping and Lightsaber Action
At last year’s E3 event, Microsoft and LucasArts showed us what a Star Wars game would look like when played with the Xbox 360’s Kinect motion controller. What was demonstrated at E3 2010 focused on a Jedi swinging his lightsaber in a battle against enemy droids and culminated in a showdown with Darth Vader. But…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 21, 2011 -
Ryu, Ken, Yoshi, Sheik And Some Creepers Star In Convention Fighter II
Remember, remember, the Lara Croft in poor weather, and the girl who loved Aion a lot. I see no reason why Star Wars or Creepers should ever be forgot. There’s been plenty of great cosplay going on over the past week or so, some of it in the US, some of it in Australia, all…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 11, 2011 -
The Death Star Was My Idea
Parodying the Windows 7 campaign, TK-421, Darth Vader and the lovable Chewbacca all share their individual accounts on how the Death Star was really their idea. If anyone is well-versed in Shryiiwook, I would love to know what Chewie’s saying. Watch Vader here and Chewie here
Junior Mendez Published April 8, 2011