Star Wars Eclipse has not vanished into the Unknown Regions. Not yet, anyway. Quantic Dream has cancelled development on its multiplayer project Spellcasters Chronicles, but the studio says its long-silent High Republic Star Wars game is not affected. According to reports from GameSpot and Insider Gaming, Quantic Dream told players that Star Wars Eclipse “continues as planned,” even as the studio shuts down its other project. That is good news. It is also the kind of good news that Star Wars gaming fans should probably receive with one hand on the emergency brake. Eclipse Is Still Officially Alive The important part is simple: Quantic Dream is saying Star Wars Eclipse is still moving forward. That matters because the game has become one of the strangest open tabs in modern Star Wars gaming. Announced back in 2021 with a gorgeous cinematic trailer, Eclipse promised a branching narrative action-adventure set during the…
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Galaxy of Heroes Just Made Returning to the Holotable Less Painfu
Coming back to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes after a long break can feel like opening a closet and being attacked by five years of laundry. Characters. Relics. Events. Currencies. Datacrons. Territory Battles. Quest tabs. Shops. Shards. Mods. More mods. The other mods you forgot existed. That one squad you were definitely building before life happened. Capital Games seems to know this, because the latest Galaxy of Heroes update is aimed directly at returning players. EA has announced an Improved Returning User Experience, built around a new questline designed to help lapsed players re-acclimate to the Holotable with clearer short, mid, and long-term goals. In plain Basic: if you have a friend who quit SWGOH and now panics when they see the home screen, the game is trying to make that return less terrifying. Returning Players Get a New Path Back In The headline feature is a revamped returning user…
Star Wars: Hunters Is Dead, But Its Weird Little Lore Archive Lives
Star Wars: Hunters may be gone, but apparently the Arena left behind more paperwork than a Hutt legal department. Trevor Davey, the timeline-obsessed Star Wars archivist behind The Life of a Star Wars Timeline, has collected 79 in-universe documents that were originally published on the now-defunct official Star Wars: Hunters website. You can read the full archive in his Substack bonus update, where he gathers Arena News posts, Boz Vega interviews, Hunter monologues, and other strange little scraps of official character flavor. That may sound niche. It is niche. It is also exactly the kind of thing Star Wars gaming history needs someone to save before it vanishes into the same digital pit as old launchers, dead forums, and mobile games that once had lore tabs. The Arena Had More Story Than Many Realized Star Wars: Hunters launched globally on June 4, 2024, as a free-to-play competitive arena game for…
Fate of the Old Republic Director Says AI Is “Creatively Soulless”
Casey Hudson is building a new Old Republic RPG, but apparently he is not asking a chatbot to write the soul of it. The Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic director has made it clear that Arcanaut Studios is not using AI to build its upcoming Star Wars RPG. In comments first reported from Bloomberg and picked up by Windows Central, Hudson said he is “really unimpressed” with AI and called it “creatively soulless.” That is a sharp line in a games industry increasingly obsessed with automation, cost-cutting, and pretending the phrase “AI pipeline efficiency” does not sound like something a villain says before building a moon-sized laser. Human-Made RPGs Still Matter Hudson’s stance matters because Fate of the Old Republic is not just any licensed game. It is being positioned as a spiritual successor to Knights of the Old Republic, one of the most beloved narrative RPGs ever…
On This Day: Star Wars Episode I: Racer Made Podracing Feel Impossible Fast
Before Star Wars racing became nostalgic, it was just fast enough to make your childhood reflexes file a formal complaint. On May 18, 1999, Star Wars: Episode I – Racer launched in North America for Nintendo 64 and Windows PC, arriving right alongside the Phantom Menace hype machine. It took one of the most kinetic sequences in the movie — the Boonta Eve Classic podrace — and turned it into a full racing game that somehow felt faster than the film itself. That was the magic trick. A lot of movie tie-in games in the late ‘90s felt like merchandise with a health bar. Episode I: Racer felt like LucasArts had looked at the podrace scene and said: “What if this was the whole game, but louder, faster, and more likely to make your palms sweat?” Podracing Finally Had Its Game The concept was wonderfully simple: choose a podracer, survive…
Hidden Empire: The Free Star Wars Browser Strategy Game More Fans Should Try
Some Star Wars games chase cinematic spectacle. Others ask you to download 120GB, update three launchers, and sacrifice a weekend to the patch gods. Then there is Hidden Empire – Galaxy Adventures, a fan-made browser strategy game that simply says: pick a side, build your planets, command your forces, and see how long your galactic ambitions survive contact with other players. And honestly? That sounds extremely Star Wars. You can check it out on the official site here: Hidden Empire – Galaxy Adventures A Fan-Made Strategy Game With Real Galactic Scale Hidden Empire – Galaxy Adventures is a strategy-based browser game where players take on the role of either a Republic commander or a Separatist warlord, building economic and military infrastructure across multiple planets while competing or cooperating with hundreds of other players in the same galaxy. The official site describes the game as a mix of planetary development, military…
On This Day: Star Wars Outlaws Let Hondo Ohnaka Steal the Show
One year ago today, Star Wars Outlaws remembered an important truth: every underworld story gets better the moment Hondo Ohnaka walks in and starts smiling like a crime is already happening. Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune released on May 15, 2025, as the game’s second story pack, bringing Kay Vess and Nix into a new pirate-flavored adventure with the galaxy’s most charmingly untrustworthy Weequay. Steam lists the DLC with a May 15, 2025 release date, while Ubisoft described it as a new story expansion centered on Hondo, hidden treasure, and the dangerous Khepi system. (Steam, Ubisoft) Hondo Was Built for Outlaws The base game already had the right ingredients: syndicates, smuggling, betrayal, blaster trouble, and Kay Vess trying very hard to survive people with better funding and worse morals. Then A Pirate’s Fortune added Hondo Ohnaka, which is basically Star Wars turning the scoundrel dial until it breaks. According…
Galaxy of Heroes Just Made Kleya Farmable in a Very Andor-Heavy Update
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes has dropped another update, and this one is basically a quiet little ISB paperwork bomb. The headline for most players is simple: Kleya shards are now farmable from Light Side Battles 8-F (Hard). That instantly makes one of the newer Andor-era characters much easier to plan around, instead of leaving her floating in the awkward “nice unit, but when can I actually farm this?” zone. But Kleya is not alone. The update also adds Cinta, Vel, Kleya, KX Enforcer Droid, Dedra, and Major Partagaz to Shipments, giving players more ways to chase the expanding Andor and ISB roster. Apparently the Rebellion and the Imperial Security Bureau both filed their Holotable paperwork on the same day. Efficient. Slightly terrifying. Kleya Finally Enters the Farm Kleya becoming farmable is the big practical change here. She can now be found on Light Side Battles 8-F (Hard), which means…
Fortnite’s Star Wars Push Has a Battlefront Problem
Fortnite has become one of the strangest places to experience Star Wars in 2026. You can fight in themed battles, escape Darth Vader, build droids, run through Star Wars islands, unlock new cosmetics, wait for The Mandalorian and Grogu footage, and now even mess around with Star Wars content inside LEGO Fortnite Odyssey. On paper, that sounds like a billion-credit win. But the actual conversation around Fortnite’s latest Star Wars push has been more complicated. The official StarWars.com Fortnite overview lays out just how big the campaign is, with Galactic Siege, Escape Vader, Droid Tycoon, LEGO Fortnite Odyssey content, weekly quests, and a Mandalorian and Grogu Watch Party Island all part of the rollout. That is a lot of Star Wars. The question is whether it is the kind of Star Wars gaming players actually want. Star Wars Content Is Not the Same as a Star Wars Game Fortnite is…
On This Day: Jedi Starfighter Still Deserves More Love
Before every Star Wars game needed a galaxy map, three progression systems, and a roadmap with seasonal feelings, LucasArts could casually drop a starfighter combat game and let players blast through the Clone Wars from a cockpit. That is basically the charm of Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, which launched for Xbox around this week in May 2002, with GameFAQs listing the Xbox release date as May 13, 2002, while the current Xbox store lists it under May 14. Either way, this is very much a “happy anniversary, you slightly forgotten prequel-era space shooter” moment. And honestly? It deserves one. A Prequel-Era Flight Game With Actual Personality Released during the Attack of the Clones buildup, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter put players into the cockpit of Adi Gallia’s Jedi starfighter while also bringing back Nym, the pirate from Star Wars: Starfighter. That combination gave the game a fun identity. It was not…
LEGO Fortnite Odyssey Gets Its Star Wars Update Tomorrow
Fortnite’s Star Wars month is not done throwing bricks, blasters, and tiny plastic chaos at players. According to the official StarWars.com May in Fortnite overview, LEGO Fortnite Odyssey gets its own Star Wars update on May 14, adding new Star Wars tools, vehicles, characters, and enemies. Epic Games also confirms that the update includes the Hover Brick, hover vehicles, Mando and Grogu, and new Star Wars enemies to fight. So yes, after Galactic Siege, Escape Vader, Droid Tycoon, weekly quests, Clone Wars cosmetics, and the general sense that Fortnite has quietly become a playable Disney+ menu, LEGO Fortnite is getting its turn. Mando, Grogu and Hover Vehicles Join the Fun The most obvious hook here is Mando and Grogu. They are already two of the most marketable faces in modern Star Wars, and dropping them into LEGO Fortnite Odyssey makes perfect sense. Grogu in LEGO form is basically a merch…
Galaxy of Heroes Starts Its New Republic Era With R5-D4, Zeb and Carson Teva
The New Republic has officially arrived in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, and yes, somehow R5-D4 may be the most alarming part of that sentence. EA has published its official Era of the New Republic Kit Reveal, detailing three new Light Side units: R5-D4, Zeb Orrelios (New Republic Pilot), and Captain Carson Teva. That is a wonderfully strange little squad on paper. A bad-motivator droid, a Lasat brawler turned New Republic pilot, and the Outer Rim’s most tired-looking lawman. Honestly, this is exactly the kind of lineup Galaxy of Heroes loves: half deep-cut fan service, half tactical spreadsheet waiting to ruin someone’s Grand Arena week. The New Republic Finally Gets a Proper Squad Identity The big story here is not just that three familiar faces are joining the game. It is that New Republic is being built as a real faction identity, with mechanics focused on retaliation, protection, evasion, debuffs,…
Star Wars Outlaws Gets Its Biggest Second Chance Yet on PlayStation Plus
Star Wars Outlaws is getting another shot at the spotlight — and this one may be bigger than its recent Steam comeback. Sony has confirmed that Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment’s open-world Star Wars adventure is joining the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog on May 19 for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium members. The announcement came through the official PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for May lineup, where Outlaws appears alongside Red Dead Redemption 2, Bramble: The Mountain King, The Thaumaturge and more. That is not a tiny placement. That is a giant “go on, give it another try” button sitting in front of millions of PlayStation subscribers. Outlaws Is Suddenly Harder to Ignore This arrives at a very interesting moment for Star Wars Outlaws. The game has already been showing fresh movement on PC, with our recent coverage of Star Wars Outlaws trending on Steam pointing to renewed interest after discounts, patches,…
Star Wars Monopoly Is Somehow Becoming a Tactical Team Game
Nobody asked for Battlefront 3 to arrive wearing a top hat and collecting rent, but here we are. Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains is coming on June 11, 2026, and the strangest thing about it is not that Star Wars has once again found its way onto a Monopoly board. That has happened before. The strange thing is that this new digital version actually sounds like Ubisoft and Behaviour Interactive are trying to turn family game night into a casual tactical showdown. According to the official Ubisoft page, the game adds a “dynamic, team-based twist” to Monopoly, with players choosing Star Wars heroes and villains, using unique powers, and fighting for control of the galaxy. That is a sentence that should not work. Somehow, it almost does. Play as a Team, Betray as a Family The big hook is team play. Ubisoft says the game supports 2v2 and 3v3…
Fate of the Old Republic Won’t Be a 200-Hour Monster
The next big Old Republic game may not be designed to eat your entire adult life. Frankly, that already sounds a little heroic. In a new Bloomberg report about the company backing Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, director Casey Hudson makes one thing very clear: this is not being built as another endless RPG treadmill with a lightsaber taped to the front. His key line? “Bigger isn’t necessarily better.” That is a small sentence with a lot of weight behind it. In an RPG landscape where “value” is often measured in hundreds of hours, endless side quests, and maps covered in icons, Hudson’s approach sounds almost rebellious: make a Star Wars RPG people can actually finish — and then give them a reason to come back. A Star Wars RPG You Might Actually Finish The Bloomberg piece focuses on former NetEase executive Simon Zhu, whose new GreaterThan Group…
On This Day: Revenge of the Sith Put Darth Vader in Your Pocket
Before smartphones, app stores, and mobile games asking for your credit card every 11 seconds, Star Wars was already trying to squeeze the fall of Anakin Skywalker into your pocket. On May 11, 2005, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith was released for ExEn mobile platforms in parts of Europe, according to MobyGames’ May 11 game history archive. It was not the big PlayStation 2 or Xbox version most players remember. It was the tiny, old-school mobile version — the kind of game designed for feature phones, small screens, stiff buttons, and heroic levels of thumb patience. And honestly? That makes it even more fascinating. A Sith Lord, But Make It Pocket-Sized The ExEn version of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith was based on Episode III and turned the movie’s chaos into a compact action game. Players could control Anakin, Obi-Wan, Mace Windu, and Yoda across 12 levels inspired…
Star Wars Zero Company Rating Hints the Empire Is Coming Early
Star Wars Zero Company still does not have an official release date, but the tactical war drums just got noticeably louder. A new listing from Australian Classification has rated the upcoming single-player tactics game M for “mature themes and violence,” with a classification date of April 8, 2026. That alone is interesting. Age ratings often show up once a game is far enough along for platform holders and ratings boards to start doing their less glamorous, paperwork-heavy part of the job. But the real hook is buried in the description: the game’s story reportedly “spans from the Clone Wars era into the early Galactic Empire.” That is a very spicy little sentence. The Clone Wars May Not Be the Whole Story Until now, the official pitch for Star Wars Zero Company has focused on the twilight of the Clone Wars. Players take control of Hawks, a former Republic officer leading…
SWGOH Kit Adjustments Target Ezra, Ahsoka, Merrin, and Gungan Phalanx
Capital Games is making some fairly chunky Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes kit adjustments, and this one is not just a tiny tooltip cleanup hiding in the corner. In a new official character kit adjustments post, the team outlined incoming changes for Gungan Phalanx, Ezra Bridger (Exile), Ahsoka, and Merrin. The short version: some power is being moved, some counters are being shut down, and several investments are being reset and refunded so players can rethink their choices. Translation: the Holotables are about to get spicy again. Gungan Phalanx Moves From Galactic Challenges to Territory Wars The first major change affects Gungan Phalanx. His Omicron was originally designed for Galactic Challenges, but since those are not currently running, Capital Games is moving it to Territory Wars instead. The ability is also being rebalanced for that mode. The updated Omicron loses the old start-of-encounter 100% Evasion, reduces the Shield Generator’s Plasma…
Star Wars Outlaws Is Suddenly Trending on Steam Again
Star Wars Outlaws is having one of those “wait, people are actually coming back?” moments. According to the latest Steam tracking chatter, Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment’s open-world Star Wars adventure has climbed high on Steam’s trending activity, with Bespin Bulletin reporting that the game was sitting as the 4th most trending title on Steam with a 125.7% 24-hour change on May 6. It was also listed around the 43rd best-selling game on the platform at the time. Not bad for a game that launched into one of the messier Star Wars gaming discourse storms in recent memory. The Star Wars Day Effect Is Real The timing is not exactly mysterious. May the 4th usually drags every Star Wars game out of hyperspace, slaps a discount on it, and politely asks everyone whether they really need food this week. In Outlaws’ case, that discount appears to be doing actual work. SteamDB…
SWGOH Is Sending Eligible Players 30,000 Crystals After Cassian Compensation Change
That is not a typo. Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is sending 30,000 Crystals to eligible players after changing its Cassian compensation plan. Capital Games confirmed in its official Update on Cassian Compensation that the original make-good tied to the Cassian situation has been replaced with a much simpler reward: a very large pile of Crystals. What Changed? The earlier plan, outlined in a previous Hotfix Update + Compensation Update, included 3,000 Crystals and Episode Pass Plus access for eligible players connected to the Cassian (Undercover) issue. That has now changed. Instead, eligible players are getting 30,000 Crystals sent directly to their inbox. In SWGOH terms, that is not a small apology. That is “suddenly opening the game very carefully” money. Why 30,000 Crystals Matters Crystals are the most flexible kind of compensation Capital Games could offer. Players can use them for energy refreshes, shipments, gear, signal data, event prep,…
Star Wars: Galactic Racer Collector’s Edition Is Already Selling Out in Some Regions
The game is still months away, but Star Wars: Galactic Racer is already hitting that dangerous collector phase: people are checking retailer pages like they’re tracking bounty pucks. The Collector’s Edition for Star Wars: Galactic Racer has reportedly started selling out at some retailers in select regions, while stock remains available elsewhere and more retailers are expected to receive allocations depending on region. That is the important bit: this is not a clean “sold out everywhere” situation. It is a messy, very Star Wars collecting situation — which means panic, refresh buttons, regional stock weirdness, and someone somewhere saying, “I only bought it for the art book.” The Collector’s Edition Is the One Everyone Is Watching The official Star Wars: Galactic Racer site lists the Collector’s Edition as a physical-only release for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and it is clearly built for the shelf-space crowd. It includes the…
The Empire Strikes Back (1982): The First Real Star Wars Game Was a Tiny Hoth War
Before Star Wars games became sprawling RPGs, online sandboxes, or massive shooter franchises, they had to solve a much simpler problem: how do you squeeze one of the biggest sci-fi universes on Earth into a home console that could barely keep its own snowstorm together? The Empire Strikes Back for the Atari 2600 is one of the first answers to that question, and it is still a fascinating one. Released by Parker Brothers for the Atari 2600 in July 1982, with an Intellivision version following in 1983, the game is widely recognized as the first officially licensed Star Wars video game. It was programmed by Rex Bradford, based on the Battle of Hoth, and built around one very clean fantasy: you are in a snowspeeder, Imperial walkers are marching toward Echo Base, and your day is getting worse at speed. That makes it a perfect follow-up to Star Wars: The…
On This Day: EA’s Star Wars Deal Changed a Decade of Games
On May 6, 2013, Star Wars gaming changed overnight. Disney and Lucasfilm announced a major multi-year agreement with Electronic Arts, giving EA the keys to Star Wars games for the “core gaming audience.” At the time, the official Lucasfilm announcement framed it as an exciting new phase, with DICE, Visceral Games, and BioWare all attached to future Star Wars projects. In hindsight, it was not just a licensing deal. It was the beginning of an era — messy, controversial, occasionally brilliant, and impossible to ignore. The Deal That Replaced LucasArts The timing mattered. Disney had acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, and LucasArts’ days as a major internal game studio were effectively over. As WIRED reported at the time, EA would become the exclusive provider of Star Wars games for the core gaming market, while Disney kept certain rights for mobile, social, tablet, and online categories. That distinction would shape everything that…
SWGOH May the 4th Celebration Brings Free Gifts, Bonus Drops, and a Very Sithy May 5th
The Holotables are getting the full Star Wars Day treatment — and yes, Capital Games remembered the Sith too. Capital Games has outlined the Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes May the 4th celebration, with daily rewards, a free calendar, a massive inbox gift, Crystal deals, Trove Packs, Lightspeed Bundles, bonus drops, and a packed event schedule running through the middle of May. The official post also gives a polite nod to “May the 5th” for the Sith crowd, because even galactic villains deserve calendar representation. Daily Rewards and a Huge Inbox Gift The biggest immediate reason to log in is the free stuff. Starting May 4, players can visit the Web Store and PC Store every day to claim special Mystery Chests. While there, players can also grab the free May the 4th calendar from the Web Store. Capital Games is also dropping a large inbox gift to kick off…