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September 3, 2009September 3, 2009

New The Clone Wars images, video, Cad Bane interview, Republic Heroes demo, and more!

A baker’s dozen of new Star Wars: The Clone Wars images have popped up on IGN, including a few new characters coming in Season 2. They also have two new videos, including this one where Cad Bane gets hired to do a little smash-and-grab on the Jedi Temple and Anakin and the clones head up against Cad Bane’s battle droids in a zero-g firefight.

Wired managed to get an interview with the notorious bounty hunter, Cad Bane. Bane goes on the record to say the Clone Wars are good for business with “the war tends to shake out the power players, and bigger clients means bigger fees” and quashes rumors that he’s concerned about young Boba Fett taking over the Fett bounty hunter name and fame. Does he want a shot at the Jedi, like Anakin Skywalker? Read it and find out!

On the video game front, the demo version of Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes has been released on XBox Live for download. The game takes place between seasons 1 and 2, and will be released on September 15 for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PS2, Nintendo DS, and PSP.

Remember, Season 2 of The Clone Wars premieres on Cartoon Network on Friday, October 2. Meanwhile, SW.com is streaming four fan favorite episodes over the Labor Day weekend.

August 29, 2009January 13, 2010

Introducing The Han Solo Adventures, a fanmade return to old-school adventure gaming

Han Solo Adventures is a freeware “interactive fan fiction” game currently under development by Stacy Davidson. The video above doubles as a trailer and contribution the the Star Wars Uncut project. (via)

August 21, 2009

Video: Jetpacking Clone Trooper opens Gamescom

LucasArts helped kick off Germany’s Gamescom in style. (via)

August 18, 2009

Video: Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

I watched the first two seasons of The Guild yesterday because of this video. Thanks, Rogue. :P

July 25, 2009October 26, 2013

SDCC ’09: Saturday morning Star Wars news roundup

James sent in these photos from the Spectacular. Note the hatless Filoni. We’ve got a few hours to go on the G4 broadcast, but from what we heard last night I’m recommending copious use of the DVR. Below, the return of the hat, plus The Clone Wars voice actors.

And now, your morning news updates:

Sounds like the Fan Movie Challenge Awards were anything but a disappointment: My favorite, Star Wars Retold, was the George Lucas Selects! Other winners include Saber, Family Dysfunction, Star Sports Theatrical Trailer, Star Wars in a Notebook and Star Wars Cinemagic. Check them out at Atom.
The reports from The Clone Wars design and The Old Republic panels.
And for those of you who like to check out girls in Slave Leia getup, StarWars.com provides.

Still no Fate of the Jedi panel writeups from anyone… ~~It also seems odd that The Clone Wars footage isn’t up yet, but I’m hopeful it’ll be there eventually.~~ UPDATE: The teaser went up just after the G4 broadcast. Duh.

July 17, 2009July 21, 2009

Roundup: More Star Wars/San Diego announcements

First up, check out some of the exclusives and swag that Star Wars folks will be offering at the con. ($6 from every Gentle Giant pink Vader, right, will go to breast cancer research and education.) There’s even stuff for us folks stuck at home, although the Comic-Con link seems tenuous.

Record your own Star Wars memories on the floor of Comic-Con to submit them to Lucasfilm’s historical archive.
Reps from Lucasfilm Licensing and Lucasfilm Animation will be on hand for portfolio reviews
LucasArts will have events on The Old Republic as well as the chance for fans to play The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, as well as something at the Star Wars Spectacular. (Great…)

July 7, 2009July 8, 2009

Death Troopers promo art from Galaxies

Havac on TheForce.Net boards spotted this zombierific poster. Since a tie-in with the MMO is planned, this isn’t totally out of the blue. Check out the poster beneath the cut.

UPDATE: Galaxies’ ‘Death Troopers Adventure Series.’ Continue reading “Death Troopers promo art from Galaxies“

July 6, 2009December 29, 2011

LucasArts opening up vault for direct download of ‘classic’ game titles

LucasArts announced via Twitter that they are going to be releasing many of their older PC game titles for direct download. The first batch of ten classic games, including Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, LOOM, Star Wars: Battlefront II and The Dig will be re-released on July 8 via Steam, the online delivery system from Valve Entertainment. Steam will also be the download system for the PC version for the upcoming Monkey Island remake The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, coming out July 15.

The full list of games being released on July 8 contains some classic graphic adventures, and some more recent action titles:

Armed and Dangerous

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure

LOOM

Star Wars Battlefront II

Star Wars Republic Commando

Star Wars Starfighter

The Dig

Thrillville: Off the Rails

This is only the first batch of classic LucasArts games to be released – and noticeably some popular game franchises are absent, possibly to be re-released in future batches: Maniac Mansion, X-Wing, Dark Forces, and Grim Fandango. No pricing information is yet available.

Meanwhile, the new Monkey Island game from Telltale Games, has its first episode coming out tomorrow, Tales of Monkey Island – Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal for PC. The Wii version will be released in the coming weeks.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was also included as a bonus game in the Wii version of Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, released in June 2009.

June 7, 2009August 29, 2009

The fandom minute: A blogger, 25 women, a Hutt and a roleplayer walk into a cantina…

It was inevitable… Hot Chicks With Stormtroopers, AKA a nicer take off of internet ‘sensation’ Hot Chicks with Douchbags, or as we like to call it in this fandom… No, sorry. Too easy. (Speaking of douchebags, io9’s weekend commentators are certainly doing their darnedest. Bravo, gentlemen.)

Lists. Leia is #6 on Total Sci-Fi’s list of the top sci-fi women.
Horrors of mass merchandising: Gizmodo is not particularly impressed with this Jabba the Hutt costume.
Roleplaying: Analog Gamer encourages RPGers to take to the Legacy era.

June 3, 2009December 29, 2011

Video game news from E3…

Lots of big video game announcements coming during E3, happening this week in Los Angeles, besides the cinematic trailer for The Old Republic MMO:

Monkey Island is coming back! LucasArts and Telltale Games are teaming up to make Tales of Monkey Island, a five part episodic adventure coming out later this summer (for PC and Wii). Also, they are releasing an updated version of the first Monkey Island game – The Secrets of Monkey Island: Special Edition, with updated graphics and sound (but allowing players to swap back to the originals for old school adventuring).
IGN previews Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, where players can play different Jedi or clonetroopers in an action-packed storyline set in between seasons 1 and 2 of “The Clone Wars”. One highlighted gameplay action is the ability for Jedi to hijack battle droids and ride them in battle.
1UP previews Star Wars: Battlefront: Elite Squadron for PSP and DS — now combining the roles of ground battles and space battles!
and for those LEGO Video game fans: LEGO Harry Potter, Years 1 – 4, was announced. Will the later films’ darker content mean that the second part of Harry’s years at Hogwarts never seen LEGO gameplay?