Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes appears to have looked at the entire Star Wars timeline, shrugged, and chosen violence. A new Myths & Legends era is coming to SWGOH, and the character list is genuinely ridiculous in the best possible way: Darth Jar Jar, Mara Jade Skywalker, The Ronin, Starkiller / Luke Concept, Jaxxon, Stormtrooper Concept, and Yoda, Dark Side Vision. That is not a normal roster update. That is a Star Wars fever dream with mods. Darth Jar Jar Is the Headline, Obviously Let’s not pretend otherwise. The second Darth Jar Jar appears in a Galaxy of Heroes announcement, everything else has to wait in line. This is one of the longest-running Star Wars jokes, theories, memes, and “what if George Lucas was secretly cooking?” ideas in the fandom. And now he is apparently walking into SWGOH like this was always inevitable. Honestly, for this game? It kind of…
Star Wars: Unlimited Showcase Prices Are Already Moving During Galactic Championship Week
Star Wars: Unlimited is heading into its biggest competitive weekend of the year, and the card market is already doing what card markets do best. Getting weird. The 2026 Galactic Championship runs July 24–26 in Las Vegas, giving Star Wars: Unlimited its largest event stage of the year. The official event site describes it as the game’s biggest event, with more than 3,000 fans expected across competition, panels, trading, side events, and prize hunting. And now, with championship week here, players are watching Showcase card prices for clues. The Market Is Watching the Meta A recent community post on the Star Wars: Unlimited subreddit pointed directly at the timing: “It’s Galactic Championship week,” with Showcase price movement potentially offering hints about the decks players expect to see at the event. That does not mean prices perfectly predict the tournament. They do not. Card markets are powered by demand, speculation, collector…
Star Wars: Galactic Racer’s Story Trailer Makes Podracing Look Illegal Again
Star Wars: Galactic Racer keeps looking less like a polite racing game and more like something the New Republic should probably investigate. The game’s official story trailer debuted during Summer Game Fest 2026, giving a better look at the rivalry, the danger, and the underground racing scene driving the upcoming Star Wars racer. Lucasfilm’s official page says Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches worldwide for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on October 6, 2026. That matters because this is not just “podracing again.” It is trying to turn Star Wars racing into a full-blown career of bad decisions. The Galactic League Looks Properly Dangerous The setup is simple enough: racing born in the lawless Outer Rim, with glory, revenge, rival pilots, and the kind of high-speed competition that probably does not have a very strong safety department. The official site describes Galactic Racer as a “high-stakes reinvention of racing”…
Star Wars: Galactic Contention Relaunches July 31, and Battlefront Fans Should Pay Attention
o, Star Wars: Galactic Contention is not a new official Star Wars game. But it may still be one of the most interesting Star Wars gaming things happening this month. Galactic Contention is a fan-made total conversion mod for Squad, the large-scale tactical military shooter. Instead of modern combat, it turns the game into a Clone Wars battlefield with clone troopers, battle droids, vehicles, objectives, squad coordination, and a lot of blaster fire. The mod’s Steam Workshop page currently lists it as “COMING JULY 31ST 2026”, with Galactic Contention described as a total conversion mod for Squad set during the Clone Wars. This Is Battlefront Energy, But More Tactical The obvious comparison is Star Wars Battlefront. Not because Galactic Contention is exactly the same kind of game. It is not built around fast arcade chaos, hero characters, or quick casual matches. It is built on Squad, which means the focus…
Classic Star Wars Games Are in Xbox’s Ultimate Game Sale, So Your Backlog Can Suffer Properly
The Xbox Ultimate Game Sale is here, and Star Wars fans have been handed a very dangerous little menu of bad decisions. Not bad games. Bad decisions. As in: “I already own KOTOR somewhere, but it is $4.99, so obviously I need it again.” According to Windows Central’s full Xbox Ultimate Game Sale 2026 list, several classic Star Wars games are currently discounted, including Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR II, Republic Commando, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, Jedi Starfighter, the original Battlefront games, and multiple LEGO Star Wars titles. In other words, your backlog is not safe. The Old Republic Is the Easy Pick The standout deal is obvious: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. With the KOTOR remake rumor mill waking up again, this is a good time to revisit the original rather than just stare at Revan’s mask and argue about hypothetical trailers. We recently covered the…
Star Wars: Unlimited’s Galactic Championship Is This Week, and the TCG Scene Gets Its Big Moment
Star Wars: Unlimited gets its biggest stage of the year this week. The 2026 Galactic Championship runs July 24–26 in Las Vegas, with the official event site calling it the largest Star Wars: Unlimited event of the year. More than 3,000 fans are expected across the three-day weekend, with competition, panels, trading, side events, and plenty of prize hunting. That is a serious step for a Star Wars card game that only launched in 2024. The Main Event Is the Big Draw The championship tournament is the headline. The official competitor guide says the elimination rounds begin Sunday afternoon, with the Galactic Champion crowned around the end of the event. It is also positioned as the final major tournament of Star Wars: Unlimited Organized Play Season One. That gives the weekend real weight. This is where the current meta gets tested properly, not just debated endlessly in Discord, Reddit, and…
When Star Wars: Episode I Racer Turned Podracing Into One of the Fastest Star Wars Games Ever
There are Star Wars games people remember because they were deep, dramatic, and full of moral choices. And then there is Star Wars: Episode I Racer, a game remembered because it let you fly through a canyon at absurd speed while your engines screamed like they were seconds from becoming expensive scrap metal. Honestly, fair. The Nintendo 64 version of Star Wars: Episode I Racer was released on July 21, 1999, according to MobyGames’ release database, landing right in the middle of The Phantom Menace era when podracing briefly became the coolest thing in the galaxy. And yes, we have already covered the game properly in our full Star Wars: Episode I Racer 1999 archive entry. But on its anniversary, it is worth coming back to one simple point: This was not just a movie tie-in. It was one of the fastest Star Wars games ever made. Podracing Was Perfect…
KOTOR Remake Could Finally Get a New Trailer Soon, But Keep the Hype in Carbonite
The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake might finally be preparing to show itself again. Maybe. Possibly. Please keep both hands away from the hype lever. A new report claims the long-silent KOTOR remake could receive a fresh reveal before the end of 2026, though the same chatter also leaves room for that reveal to slip into early 2027. The claim comes from 100% Star Wars, with several gaming outlets now picking up the report as another sign that Saber’s remake may be moving toward public reintroduction. That is not an official Lucasfilm announcement. It is not a confirmed trailer date. It is not a PlayStation showcase listing. It is not The Game Awards suddenly rolling out a red carpet for Revan. But after years of silence, even a possible re-reveal is enough to wake up the Old Republic crowd. The KOTOR Remake Has Been Quiet for Years…
This Helldivers 2 Mod Turns Every Armor Set Into Clone Trooper Gear
Helldivers 2 has never been shy about sending heavily armored soldiers into hopeless battles where everyone is expendable and friendly fire is practically a squad tradition. In other words, it was always one clone trooper mod away from becoming the Clone Wars game we still somehow do not have. That mod has now arrived. Star Wars: Clone Armory Beta does not simply replace one armor set with a familiar white helmet. It attempts to transform the entire Helldivers 2 armory into clone trooper gear, complete with weapons, backpacks, accessories, supporting soldiers and Republic-themed battlefield details. This is less “nice cosmetic pack” and more “Kamino has quietly taken over Super Earth’s procurement department.” Every Helldiver Armor Set Gets the Clone Treatment Created by thebf333 alongside MrPizza07, Degabait and davidTheGodly, Clone Armory is described as a total conversion of the game’s armor collection. The mod replaces all player armor with clone trooper…
This 46-Minute AI Fan Film Finally Turns Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Into a Movie
For 30 years, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire has been known as the movie Lucasfilm never actually made. Now somebody has made one anyway. YouTube channel Star Wars Chronicles has released a 45-minute fan film adapting the cult-favorite Legends story set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. It is unofficial, partly created with generative AI, and already pulling in hundreds of thousands of views. More importantly, it gives Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, Guri and the criminal empire of Black Sun something fans have wanted since 1996: an actual screen adaptation. You can watch the full film below: The Star Wars Movie That Never Existed Shadows of the Empire was never just a video game. Lucasfilm launched it in 1996 as a huge multimedia storytelling event involving a novel by Steve Perry, a Dark Horse comic series, a Nintendo 64 game, an orchestral soundtrack, trading cards,…
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999): The Movie Game That Survived Development Chaos
There are many ways to fail a diplomatic mission. You can insult the other side. You can misunderstand the negotiations. You can discover that the conference room is filling with poisonous gas while an army of battle droids waits outside. Or, in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, you can accidentally swing a lightsaber at the wrong person and turn the entire Trade Federation ship into a workplace dispute. Released for Windows and PlayStation in 1999, The Phantom Menace was Big Ape Productions’ attempt to squeeze George Lucas’ first prequel into a third-person action-adventure. Players moved between Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Queen Amidala, and Captain Panaka across an expanded retelling of the film, mixing lightsaber combat, blaster fights, puzzles, exploration, conversations, trading, and side objectives. It was ambitious. It was awkward. It had a camera that occasionally behaved like it had also been hit with a Force push….
SWTOR’s Pirate Incursion Returns Tomorrow, So Dantooine Is About to Be Annoying Again
Dantooine is about to have another completely normal week. Which, in Star Wars: The Old Republic, means pirates, sabotage, daily missions, reputation grinding, and players once again asking why this supposedly quiet farming world keeps getting dragged into galactic nonsense. Pirate Incursion returns on July 21, 2026 and runs until July 28, according to SWTOR’s official July event schedule. The event is available for characters level 20 and above, so it is a pretty easy excuse to jump back in, even if your main has been abandoned on the fleet like a sad decoration. The Nova Blades Are Back Pirate Incursion sends players back to Dantooine, where the Nova Blade pirates are causing trouble during the ongoing Republic and Empire conflict. The event originally arrived with Game Update 5.10.3: The Dantooine Incursion, turning the planet into a compact conflict zone full of daily missions, Heroics, reputation rewards, and the usual…
When The Old Republic Became a Comic Omnibus, SWTOR’s Backstory Got a Second Life
There is a very specific kind of Star Wars fan who hears “Old Republic” and immediately starts behaving like someone opened a Sith holocron in the room. Reasonable, honestly. The Old Republic era has always had that effect. It is ancient Jedi, Mandalorian wars, Sith empires, lost students, bad masters, worse councils, and enough moral collapse to make the Skywalker saga look like a family argument at dinner. On July 20, 2021, Marvel released Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic Omnibus Vol. 1, a massive hardcover collection that brought together the full Dark Horse Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic comic series, Knights of the Old Republic: War, the Knights of the Old Republic Handbook, and material from Knights of the Old Republic/Rebellion #0. And for fans of KOTOR, SWTOR, and that wonderfully messy slice of Star Wars history, it was more than just another shelf-destroying omnibus. It was…
SWTOR Galactic Season 10 Is Almost Over, So Finish the Syndicate Before It Vanishes
SWTOR players are running out of time to clean up their Galactic Season 10 business. Broadsword has confirmed that Galactic Season 10: “Secrets of the Syndicate” is drawing to a close toward the end of July, with Galactic Season 11: “Light and Shadow” coming next. Executive Producer Keith Kanneg warned players in the Q2 2026 Producer Letter to grab remaining rewards before they disappear, which is MMO language for “you had months, please stop pretending this is a surprise.” So yes, it is checklist season. Again. Secrets of the Syndicate Is Nearly Done Galactic Season 10 launched with Game Update 7.8.1, bringing back older reward themes from previous seasons while adding new goals and rewards into the current seasonal track. The official SWTOR objectives page confirms that the final listed Season 10 objectives run from July 7 through July 27, with players able to complete 7 of 11 weekly objectives…
TIE Fighter Strategy Guide: When Star Wars PC Games Needed Manuals Like Sacred Texts
There was a time when playing a Star Wars game did not begin with a tutorial popup, a glowing objective marker, and a cheerful reminder that your spacebar can make things happen. Sometimes it began with a manual. A real one. The kind you actually had to read. Star Wars: TIE Fighter launched in 1994, and it was not built for players who wanted to casually drift through the galaxy while the game quietly solved itself in the background. It was a space combat sim from LucasArts, and it expected you to learn how to fly, manage shields, cycle targets, redirect power, understand mission briefings, and survive long enough to make the Empire proud. Or at least slightly less disappointed. That is why TIE Fighter: The Official Strategy Guide still feels like a perfect artifact from the golden age of Star Wars PC gaming. Published by Prima in July 1994…
When The Clone Wars Returned From the Dead and Star Wars Fans Lost Their Minds
On July 19, 2018, Star Wars: The Clone Wars did something Star Wars stories are usually pretty dramatic about. It came back from the dead. During San Diego Comic-Con, Lucasfilm revealed that The Clone Wars would return with new episodes, dropping a trailer that opened old wounds, revived unfinished arcs, and instantly sent fans into emotional hyperspace. The announcement came during the show’s 10-year anniversary panel, where Dave Filoni and the cast looked back at the series before revealing that the story was not actually over. For anyone who had followed the show through its cancellation, unfinished story reels, “The Lost Missions,” and years of “what could have been” conversations, this was not just another trailer. It was closure getting a second chance. A War Left Unfinished The Clone Wars had always been a strange case. It began as a companion piece to the prequel era, but over time became…
Star Wars: Starfighter Writer Says There Are “No Barriers to Entry,” and That Might Be Exactly What the Franchise Needs
Star Wars: Starfighter is still sounding less like homework and more like an actual movie. That should not feel refreshing. It does. In a new interview with The Playlist, writer Jonathan Tropper says the upcoming Shawn Levy-directed Star Wars film is being built so audiences do not need to have seen every other Star Wars movie before stepping into it. “You don’t have to have seen other Star Wars movies to step into this one,” Tropper said, adding that “there are no barriers to entry.” For a franchise that has spent years balancing legacy characters, canon timelines, streaming spin-offs, animated backstory, theatrical returns, and enough lore threads to strangle a bantha, that is a pretty important sentence. Starfighter Wants to Be New, Not Homework This is not the first time the creative team has positioned Starfighter as a clean entry point. Lucasfilm has already described the film as a new…
Darth Revan Gets a New Sideshow Figure, and the Unmasked Portrait Has Fans Talking
Darth Revan is back on the collector circuit, which is always a dangerous thing for wallets, shelves, and anyone still pretending they are “done buying Star Wars stuff.” Sideshow has revealed new Darth Revan collectibles, including a Darth Revan Statue and a larger Darth Revan Premium Format Figure. Both pieces lean heavily into the Sith Lord’s iconic Knights of the Old Republic look: dark robes, armor, red and purple lightsabers, and the kind of dramatic pose that says, “yes, I have made several morally complicated life choices.” But the detail that will probably get the most attention is the unmasked portrait included with the exclusive version of the Premium Format Figure. Because yes, fans are already going to have thoughts. The Unmasked Revan Portrait Is the Hook The Darth Revan Premium Format Figure stands 23 inches tall, with Revan posed over the wreckage of a fallen Mandalorian Crusader ship. Sideshow…
PowerWash Simulator 2’s Star Wars Pack Is Out Now, So the Galaxy Can Finally Be Clean Again
The PowerWash Simulator 2 STAR WARS Pack is officially out now, which means the galaxy far, far away has finally found the hero it truly needed. Not a Jedi. Not a Sith. Not a chosen one with unresolved family issues. A pressure washer. The new Star Wars crossover pack is now available, adding six new levels set across iconic locations including Tatooine, Hoth, and beyond. It also brings a new story narrative featuring messages from Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Owen Lars, and more, plus new interactables, achievements, themed equipment, and the P0-W2 Droid outfit. The official Steam update lists the pack at $9.99 / €9.99 / £7.99 / ¥1,100. If you are jumping into the cleaning chaos and want the game on your shelf too, you can also check PowerWash Simulator 2 on Amazon here. We recently covered FuturLab’s developer video for the pack and why PowerWash Simulator 2’s Star…
Star Wars: Galactic Contention Relaunches This Month With Unreal Engine 5
Star Wars: Galactic Contention is coming back this month, and the fan-made Clone Wars shooter mod looks far more ambitious than it has any right to. The popular Squad total conversion is set to relaunch with Version 9.0 on July 31, 2026, bringing the project into Unreal Engine 5 with upgraded visuals, new changes, maps, and more details still to come. The Steam Workshop page currently lists the mod as “COMING JULY 31ST 2026” and describes it as a total conversion for Squad set during the Clone Wars. A new reveal trailer also shows the mod’s Unreal Engine 5 upgrade in action, with clone troopers, battle droids, vehicles, blaster fire, and large-scale battlefield chaos looking sharper than ever. A Clone Wars Battlefield Built by Fans For anyone new to it, Galactic Contention is not an official Star Wars game. It is a fan-made total conversion mod for Squad, the tactical…
D23 2026 Schedule Revealed, and Star Wars Fans Should Probably Watch the Gaps
Disney has revealed the programming lineup for D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event 2026, and Star Wars is definitely present. Just maybe not in the giant “everyone stop what you’re doing, here comes the movie slate” way some people might be hoping for. D23 2026 takes place August 14–16 in Anaheim, California, with major showcases at the Honda Center and a full spread of panels, presentations, concerts, screenings, and fan events across the Anaheim Convention Center. Disney says the weekend will include more than 50 panels and programming across five stages, covering film, television, parks, publishing, music, games, collectibles, and more. For Star Wars fans, the most obvious headline is a LEGO Star Wars Screening Event, described as a special screening of an all-new animated LEGO Star Wars adventure featuring familiar characters, laughs, and action. Disney says more details are still to come. So yes, LEGO Star Wars is on…
KOTOR Remake May Finally Be Targeting 2028, Which Somehow Feels Both Close and Ridiculous
The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake may finally have something resembling a release window. Maybe. Possibly. With a lightsaber-sized asterisk. According to Gamereactor, a New Saber executive has put the long-awaited KOTOR remake “hopefully” in the company’s 2028 release line-up. That is not an official release date. It is not a trailer. It is not a fresh gameplay reveal. It is not even the kind of confident corporate sentence you can safely build a countdown clock around. But for a remake that has spent years living somewhere between “still in development” and “please stop asking,” even the word “hopefully” counts as movement. 2028 Is Not a Date, But It Is Something The key word here is “hopefully.” That matters. The remake has not been officially dated for 2028, and nobody should treat this as confirmation that Revan is definitely returning that year. What it does suggest is…
Star Wars Trilogy Arcade (1998): The Sega Machine That Turned the Original Trilogy Into a Theme Park Ride
Before Star Wars games gave us open worlds, branching dialogue, skill trees, crafting systems, and 14 different versions of the same lightsaber handle, there was a simpler promise. Put money in machine. Grab joystick. Destroy Death Star. Star Wars Trilogy Arcade understood exactly what an arcade game needed to do. It did not want to retell every conversation from the original trilogy or make you manage Rebel Alliance supply routes. It wanted to grab the films’ biggest action scenes, weld them together with Sega hardware, and launch the player through them before anyone had time to ask how many coins were left. Released in 1998, Star Wars Trilogy Arcade was developed by Sega’s AM Annex, also associated with Sega AM3’s R&D operation, and published exclusively for arcades. It ran on Sega’s powerful Model 3 hardware and arrived shortly after the theatrical release of the original trilogy’s Special Editions had pushed…
Star Wars: Unlimited’s Ashes of the Empire Launches Today, and Endor Is About to Get Messy
Star Wars: Unlimited is heading back to Endor, which means the Empire is falling, the galaxy is unstable, and everyone is about to pretend this is a clean transition of power. Cute. Ashes of the Empire, the eighth set for Star Wars: Unlimited, launches today, bringing the trading card game into one of the most interesting periods in the timeline: the Battle of Endor and the messy years after it. The Death Star is gone. The Emperor is dead. Darth Vader is gone too. The Rebels have won the big symbolic victory. And somehow, that makes everything more complicated. According to the official product page, Ashes of the Empire includes more than 260 new cards and introduces new mechanics built around the chaos left behind by the fall of the Galactic Empire, including Support, Advantage tokens, and Mandalorian token units. Endor Was Not the End That is the clever part…