Star Wars: Death Troopers is a 2009 novel by Joe Schreiber. The plot follows the drama when Purge – an Imperial prison barge – breaks down in a remote part of space. It holds 500 dangerous killers, rebels and thiefs and hope may be in the form of the apparently abandoned Star Destroyer they find […]
Fantasty Flight Games buys Star Wars games license
RPG powerhouse Fantasy Flight Games has today announced that they’ve secured the license for Star Wars. The deal with Lucasfilm gives them the worldwide rights for card games, miniature games and RPGs for the entire Star Wars universe. There’s no specific mention of the internet. Whereas it’s not expected that Fantasy Flight will be making […]
Kinect Star Wars – Cool? Cheese? Crepe?
I suspect this video will divide people. It shows the new Star Wars game for the Xbox 360. It’s a game that you can play with your hands, without a controller and so it means you can do the lightsaber swings yourself or control an X-Wing. I suspect the Star Wars franchise will be a […]
Pictures: There is a real Tatooine
In Tunisia there is a small city called Tataouine – although you can spell it in many ways. It sports fortified granaries used by the local Berbers and looks like something from a fantastic film set. As it happens George Lucas used the area of Ksar Oueled Soltane for The Phantom Menance. It’s certainly not […]
Rocking teaser clip for Star Wars: The Old Republic
EA have released a new advert for Star Wars: The Old Republic. It’s a set of clips, 30 seconds of The Old Republic goodness, that seem to fly by at light speed. There’s no doubting the success of The Old Republic and Knights franchise. Just taking a gander at Play.com’s matches for Old Republic reveal […]
8 bit Star Wars
Here’s a mash up that we should have seen coming. Take one dose of Star Wars. Take one dose of 8-bit era music. Mash. There result is Star Wars as it might have sounded if it was a Nintendo game. Hats off to Proof of Work who kept this up for more than 6 minutes. […]
The Dark Side – Come to the Dark Side, we have dubstep
Something, something, Dark Side – one of the best lines from Family Guy ever. What else could you do with the dreaded words “Dark Side”? What about creating a rather funky dubstep, combining it with a mashup of clips, pinning it up at YouTube and pointing a whole bunch of geeks at it. Yeah. That […]
Jessica Rabbit as Slave Leia x 2
For some mystery the picture of Heidi Klum dressed as Jessica Rabbit is one of the most popular photos on this blog. Slave Leia posts are uber popular too – except this one. I wonder how well this pair of mashups will do; Jessica Rabbit as Slave Leia. Any bets? From The Daily Dingo. From […]
Make your own hologram style video with an iPad and Kinect
What happens when you put Apple tech and Microsoft tech together? Do you get a fight? laan labs have proven otherwise with this demo of 3D style videos appearing on the iPad. You’ll get an R2-D2 vibe from this. The Princess Leia projection is a thing of the very near future. Check it out.
The $500 Star Wars blueprint collection
Sideshow Collectibles have been wowing the geeky game community in recent months with a series of action hero models and figures. The craftsmanship of these mini statues is simply incredible. What would happen if Sideshow Collectibles took their skill and applied it to a book. An illustrated book. A Star Wars book? What we have […]
