Star Wars

Free Realms Meets Star Wars In Clone Wars Adventures

Sony Online Entertainment draws back the curtain on Clone Wars Adventures, taking the successful formula established with its free-to-play, family-friendly MMO Free Realms to a galaxy far, far away. Check out the first trailer here! Rumored in March and due out this fall, Clone Wars Adventures is a massively-multiplayer online Star Wars game for kids,…

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No More Joker For Luke Skywalker?

Okay, Mark Hamill isn’t just Luke Skywalker, star of Star Wars. He’s also Luke Skywalker, star of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Video game Wing Commander, too! He’s also in World War II movie The Big Red One and 1970s comedy Corvette Summer. To be fair, the man has done a buncha…

The Empire Strikes Back Cast Reunited, Partially

The Empire Strikes Back was released in the U.S. 30 years ago this week. On Wednesday, some of its stars (and friends) attended an anniversary screening. See, Empire Strike Back Xbox Live Avatars aren’t the only 30th anniversary happening for this sci-fi classic. The Wednesday screening was a benefit for St Jude Children’s Research Hospital…

No More Heroes Creator Wants To Turn This Into A Nintendo 3DS Game

Goichi “Suda 51” Suda, the man behind oddball games like Killer 7, No More Heroes and Contact, has ideas already a-brewin’ for Nintendo’s next platform, the Nintendo 3DS. His idea? Force training. “I hope for the realization of a training remote like Luke Skywalker used for force training in Star Wars Episode IV: A New…

Empire Strikes Back, The 1950 Production

Quick refresher: The Empire Strikes Back, like me, was released in 1980. Explains the haircuts. And the whole “Luke” thing. If it had been released in 1950, however, it would have looked a little different. Believe it or not, aside from the on-screen graphics this footage is all from real movies, including instalments from the…

Rebel Scum It Up With New Star Wars Xbox 360 Avatar Gear

Show your Rebel pride, your Imperial allegiance or your carefree bounty hunter love with new The Empire Strikes Back-themed Avatar gear, adorable enough to force almost any Star Wars fan to drop Microsoft Points on virtual clothing. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, LucasArts is exploring new money making opportunities in…

The Star Wars of The New Generation Is…

Well, according to Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski, it is… Sci-fi role-playing franchise Mass Effect. Here’s the quote — from an interview with website Gamasutra: The thing that was cool was that Mass Effect is kind of an RPG for me, with the cover-based shooting. I think there’s a reason why it’s been successful.…

Jennifer And Jeff Hays To Have Twins

Yes, you read the headlline right. Jennifer and Jeff Hays are having twins. No, I don’t know who they are or if they play video games. After you watch this, you’ll know why that’s irrelevant. [Thanks, Morris!]

Star Wars, In Two Minutes, With LEGO

So yesterday was “Star Wars Day”? Well that’s stupid. Every day should be Star Wars day. To punish you for your shoe-horning, you must now watch this clip, which tells the original trilogy’s story in 2 minutes. With LEGO. I wish the LEGO Star Wars game had been this canonical and to the point. And…

George Lucas Said No To A Wookiee Superhero Game

The story propelling Lucasart’s Force Unleashed is one of apprenticeship, Imperial cleavage, good and evil. It could have been about a Wookiee superhero, which would have been awesome, but no, George Lucas nixed that idea. In the latest issue of GamePro, developers Haden Blackman and Julio Torres remember the heady days of 2005, when the…

Spider-Man, Jedi Thwart Real-Life Comic Book Villain [Update]

During the Free Comic Book Day festivities last week, one man in Adelaide, Australia attempted to make off with a pricey old X-Men book. Lucky Spider-Man was on the scene! Adelaide Comic Centre was the scene of this superhero showdown, when on the weekend owner Michael Baulderstone noticed a suspicious looking character at the back…

Star Wars: Attack Of The Pokémon

Kids love Star Wars. Kids love Pokémon. Shall we throw them together and see what happens? Yes, let’s. tranive has done just that, taking ten famous Pokémon and combining them with ten famous Star Wars characters to create the crossover nobody ever asked for, but now it’s come into this world, we surely cannot be…

What Is This, Lords Of Ultima, Or Star Wars?

EA released some screenshots of browser-based Lords Of Ultima overnight. We were quite surprised to find Natalie Portman reprising her role from the Star Wars prequels. Above is a screenshot from Lords Of Ultima showing your advisor at the very outset of the game. Below is Portman in her Padmé Amidala costume from Attack of…

2010: The Year of Empire Strikes Back Nostalgia

I’ve finally caught on. The Hoth-themed recruiting booth at Game Developers Conference last month was a clue. The e-mail about rare movie set photos seals it. It’s the 30th anniversary of the Empire Strikes Back this year. Nostalgia time. Well, not nostalgia time here. Not yet. The movie premiered in the U.S. on May 21,…

Star Wars Cantina Micro-review: Serve Greedo First

Not since Bea Arthur’s spin as Ackmena the bartender in the Star Wars Holiday Special have we been as thrilled to revisit a classic Tatooine bar as we have in Star Wars Cantina for the iPhone. Star Wars Cantina puts you in the shoes and Dewback-sized beehive hairdo of Nia Adea, a drink-slinger at the…

Darth Vader Contemplates One More Round Of Advance Wars

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The 90-Minute Review Of Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones [Update]

Forget watching a movie; the best 90 minutes of video you’ll see tonight is this epic recap of Attack of the Clones, the latest in RedLetterMedia’s enjoyable series of serial killer movie reviews. These are so great not just because they’re funny, but because when you look past the “women trapped in a basement” shtick…

Stay On Target, Space Invaders

The force is strong with this one, so increase speed, drop down, reverse direction! As seen on RedBubble

Star Wars, Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

Star Wars games have often tried to paint the franchise in a different light, from Super Star Wars’ over-abundance of bad guys to LEGO Star Wars’ fondness of plastic dismemberment. But these animation shorts, these are different These short clips, made late last year, are part of the excellent “Star Wars Uncut” project (which we’ve…