Move over, Marc Ecko: This fanmade Artoo hoodie is all kinds of awesome. Granted, at $92 it is a bit pricey… (via)
Out this week: Knights of the Old Republic
Wednesday will bring us a Knights of the Old Republic double punch – issue #46 and the ‘Dueling Ambitions’ trade.
Lucasfilm seeing bank on Verizon’s Droid?
See anything familiar in there? Okay, it can be hard to spot on Youtube, but Twitter has been buzzing about the fine print on Verizon’s latest run at the iPhone: “DROID is a trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. and its related companies. Used under license.”
Lucasfilm isn’t exactly a stranger to cell phone companies, but I wouldn’t expect much involvement besides what we see here… At least not yet.
The Clone Wars: Watch ‘Senate Spy’ now
Get out your Hollywood fashion tape, Anakin and Padme fans: ‘Senate Spy’ is now streaming on StarWars.com.
Gate Geek – Someone gets SGU!
Well, judging by the ratings, Stargate Universe is off to a fine start. However, there are some folks still not decided on whether or not they want to start watching a Stargate show.
Alasdair Stuart does one of the most interesting character analyses I’ve seen yet on the show. I suspect this might convince some of you to start watching.
Video: Kraken are the new vampires
Yes. Feel the, uh, ‘magic.’ (via)
Wacky merchandise du jour: Lightsaber MP3 player
I guess you can be too dorky for an iPod. This will play your MP3s in “in the order that they’re stored on the memory card directory,” all old-school like. Branding or… branding? Your choice, fanboy.
Reviews for The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
Now that the new video game Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes is out, reviews are starting to come in like Holofeed dispatches from the front, and it is looking more like a casualty report than a string of victories.
- TheForce.net points out that it’s really for kids and not for gamers, and gives it 3.5 out of 5 stars, highlighting the co-op play.
- TeamXbox gives it a 4.8 out of 10, likes the many levels and characters, but finds the game, especially the graphics and gameplay, unpolished.
- BigShinyRobot warns that this game will blow fans’ minds — if they are under 12. Otherwise, the frustrating game controls negate the good graphics and sound to give a final review of 5.5 out of 10.
- Gamespot likes how the game accurately looks, sounds, and feels like a lost episode of The Clone Wars, but in the end, the game “messes up nearly every single aspect of the familiar Lego formula, turning what should have been a quick-paced romp with cartoon Jedi into a dreary mess of clunky controls and confusing level design” – 3.5 out of 10.
- Danny Willis, blogging for the San Jose Mercury News, hated it, and suggests that the game was ” personally designed by anti-gaming zealot and famed lunatic Jack Thompson.”
And if you’d rather read about the trivia of the game’s development, GameInformer has tons of things you didn’t know about the making of Republic Heroes.
Clone Wars goes Notorious with ‘Senate Spy’ tonight!
Tonight’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode may not be battle heavy, but will show the war from a different point of view: politics, espionage, and romance (?) as Padme goes undercover to investigate a senator who’s also an old love interest. Catherine Taber shares with starwars.com on Padmé’s allegiances to the Republic and to her husband, and on her Alfred Hitchcock homework from Dave Filoni.
Newsarama puts up the conclusion of their Dave Filoni interview about season 2 and making the show. In brief: More independent episodes, a broader view of the war, more clone-centric episodes, no Yoda-centric episodes, Corey Burton does awesome villain voices, etc.
The show is proving its success with posts of double-digit gains in kid demographics from this time last year, according to tvbythenumbers.com. The younglings, especially boys, are watching.
Meanwhile, Forcecast.net has a roundtable discussion on last week’s ‘Children of the Force.’
Tokyo Dance Trooper don’t stop
Again, Danny Choo? (via)