The Old Republic site has updated with a number of new screenshots and concept art for the forthcoming MMO.
Feast your eyes on the Lego Hoth diorama!
Click through to Brickplumber’s photostream and you won’t be surprised to see why his Hoth diorama won a Star Wars building contests and was featured in the official Lego magazine. (via)
In other Lego news (well, sort of,) GalacticBinder has twenty reasons to love Lego Star Wars.
Hey gamers: See The Old Republic in action!
LucasArts and Bioware debuted the first video documentary on the upcoming Old Republic MMO today, including some brand-new play footage.
It’s Friday, blah blah blah The Clone Wars
“Duel of the Droids” airs on Cartoon Network tonight. (Preview with the latest webcomic, Discount.) Don’t forget the new Saturday morning reruns.
- Last week: Watch “Downfall of a Droid” on StarWars.com.
- Fannish: The ForceCast roundtables “Downfall of a Droid,” while elsewhere on TFN they’re gearing up for a Henry Gilroy interview… And taking questions from fans.
- Gaming: TCW tie-ins Jedi Alliance and Lightsaber Duels came out this week… Alliance has fun facts.
- Rumor: Actress Jaime King (Sin City, Fanboys) doing a voice later in the season?
The Clone Wars: “Downfall of a Droid” postmortem
- Dave Filoni focuses on Gha Nachkt in the episode commentary, while Pablo interviews Ashley Eckstein.
- Jedi Alliance: A two-part walkthrough and a commercial for the Nintendo DS game.
- Or just try your hand at Clones vs. Droids or Path of the Jedi.
In The Old Republic, size does matter
Lest we forget that teenagers are king when it comes to Star Wars, io9 found a lovely gem of a quote indicating that the size of a player’s lightsaber (among other things) will grow with the amount of hours they’ve sunk into the game. Charming, no?
Gaming news: The Old Republic, Soul Calibur IV
The Old Republic: IGN has story details and an interview with art director Jeff Dobson while Tom Nichols of LucasArts tells Eurogamer that Galaxies will continue, and the new MMO may make the jump to consoles.
- Soul Calibur IV: You can now download Vader and Yoda (each version of the game only comes with one or the other) for your game.
- Shocker: George Lucas has never played World of Warcraft. Well, it’s not a movie, and he doesn’t own it, so… Yeah.
The Old Republic: Yes fandom, it’s a KOTOR MMO
As expected, LucasArts and Bioware today announced The Old Republic, a MMO set in the era of the popular Knights of the Old Republic franchise within a franchise.
Press: Both 1up and Joystiq liveblogged the reveal; GameSpot has a lengthy article an exclusive video, while IGN has already checked out the game at Bioware’s Austin studio.
EUC has gathered all the relevant data into several giant lists with heaps of links for those craving more.
Falcon week continues behind-the-scenes
This morning, StarWars.com takes Hyperspace members back to the making of The Empire Strikes Back with The Last Corellian Shipyard, an article reprinted from the UK Star Wars magazine (at least if Wookieepedia is to be believed) on the the full sized Falcon set built for The Empire Strikes Back by actual shipbuilders in Wales.
For those without Hyperspace, your consolation prize is a look back at the Falcon in video games.
Game rumor du jour: Rogue Squadron on Wii?
Buck up, kids: For once it’s not about KOTOR! No, a gaming magazine is claiming that LucasArts has licensed out the old Rogue Squadron games to be recombobulated (“visuals and control schemes”) and released as a three-pack for the Wii. Yay?