Expect more Knights of the Old Republic. Whose gender will fandom be debating this time? I simply can’t wait to find out.
Gaming roundup
BusinessWeek looks a the future of Star Wars gaming. It’s a nice roundup of upcoming games and what may be lurking in the wings – although no platform, not the Xbox 360, has been announced for the ‘Star Wars 2007’/Force Powers’ – The one with the demo where you throw Stormtroopers – yet.
In another corner of the ‘net, IGN has a theory… Could the 2007 game contain hints for the live-action TV series?
And you can finish off the required gaming reads of the day with a short history of LucasArts.
This week on StarWars.com
No Exile cover, but that’s understandable give the huge slideshow of the differences between the 1977 and 2004 versions of Episode IV that went up tonight.
Also…
– A look at the new LEGO game.
– Natalie Portman auctioning signed collectibles for charity.
– More of those giant wall coverings for Euro fans.
– Drawing Lego Han and Stormtrooper.
The cuteness is suffocating
Kittens of Darkness. Boy, everyone has a motivational poster parody these days, don’t they? I need to get cracking.
Interview with LucasArts’ Peter Hirschmann
Will we ever see the Digital Molecular Matter demo with Jar-Jar in carbonite? Also, the future of games!
7000 women in 23 countries disagree…
Games industry is ‘failing women’. Article looks interesting… And then…
He said the industry had to learn from the film business.
“The movie industry doesn’t just make films for boys.
“Star Wars was the biggest film of all time until Titanic came along; Titanic became the biggest because women went to see it and women went to see it multiple times.
“Just boys saw Star Wars multiple times.”
Boy, I really want to buy games from this guy, don’t you?
Handheld game in development
Star Wars: Lethal Alliance was announced by Ubisoft today. The game will be set in the ever-popular gap between the trilogies and available for both Sony’s PSP and Nintendo’s DS in December 2006.
December? That’s pretty quick if they’re only announcing it now…
While we were drinking…
Here’s some of what’s been going on in the outside world.
Revenge of the Sith won two DVD awards. Also on the official site, November 2006 Comics.
Speaking of comics, don’t bother looking for Legacy #3 in stores. It was supposed to come out today (the schedule even said so until this morning) but it’s… not. Word on the boards is that last week’s books didn’t ship either. (I don’t know: I only buy Legacy.) Dark Horse isn’t the only one: Something is rotten in the comics industry.
“May the force be with you” tops online quote poll. And I don’t think TFN linked the poll, which means it might actually have won fair and square. Cool.
Some new Star Wars miniatures debuted at GenCon. The set includes a “Mystral” Shadow Guard, but unless they came with booze and/or naked men, I don’t think any of us noticed. Also, it seems they’re restarting the RPG.
Colleen Doran witnesses The Fan From Hell. I think we’ve found one that beats the Woodtick, folks.
Those damn Harry Potter plagiarists made it all the way up the fannish blog chain to John Scalzi. Twice.
Other stuff I would have blogged:
– NASA has misplaced the original moon landing tapes. Our tax dollars at work!
– Daniel Radcliffe is down with Harry Potter dying.
– Crazy mofo has “temporary” Wolverine piercing. My hand hurts just looking at it.
– Hayden Christensen making some movie.
– Things writers have no control over. (Add to the list: Killing Chewbacca.)
– The Top 8 Shows For SF Myth Busters.
– 11 Things in Fantasy/That I Don’t Promise Not to Use (or Keep Using) in My Writing and 6 More Things I Could do Without in Fantastic Literature & I don’t plan to use except to make fun of.
Oh shit – More fanboys!
With gaming expo E3 closing the ranks, GenCon plans to expand in 2007. They’re staying in Indianapolis (phew) and only adding space to the existing con floor and hotels. The California version, however, will be moving from Anaheim to the Los Angeles Convention Center (location of C4) next year.
Will Jaders have to start driving in on Tuesday to get parking? Will the video gamers be any better at bathing than their RPG counterparts? Will there be more free stuff? Only time will tell…