To what lengths will two teens go to convince their superfan friend that they lived a Star Wars adventure? This fun, cute Star Wars fan film will answer that question. Drew Struckmeyer brings us “Star Wars: From the Shadows” and it’s a fun little short that’s worth your time to give a look. What’s it all about? Well, you really need to watch it for yourself to get the full experience but let me give you a little breakdown. It’s just over seven minutes long and tells a fun narrative of one guy trying to convince his young friend that he and another friend had a real life Star Wars experience. It starts off as the two play video games and young Wyatt says he “wishes” Star Wars was real. After stating that it’s “scientifically impossible” for that to happen in real life, Drew tells him a story he just can’t believe….
SWTOR ‘Defend The Throne’ Launch Trailer
BioWare released a new short trailer for today’s game update 5.1 Watch the ‘Defend the Throne’ launch trailer for an inside look at new multiplayer battles, the most challenging story difficulty yet, and more! Rally your troops for battle as rivals, traitors, and rogues alike seek to challenge your rule in Galactic Command. Whether you’re playing alongside friends or ruling the galaxy solo, the time has come to DEFEND THE THRONE! See more from STAR WARS: The Old Republic’s newest expansion, Knights of the Eternal Throne:
Changes to the Cartel Market — Tuesday January 24 2017
Here are the weekly cartel market items on sale for the week of January 24 – January 31 2017. Remember you can support this blog by buying your cartel coins on Amazon via this link were you also will get a Exclusive Item [Online Game Code] New Items Price Helpful links STALWART LEADER PACK 200 Information from TOR FASHION SUPERCRATE: STALWART LEADER PACKS 950 Information from TOR FASHION HYPERCRATE: STALWART LEADER PACKS 4680 Information from TOR FASHION Price Change Old Price New Price Percent Change Normal Price Helpful links 5-PACK: COMMAND BOOST 800 600 –25% 800 ETERNAL COMMAND PACK 200 300 +50% 300 Information from TOR FASHION SUPERCRATE: ETERNAL COMMAND PACKS 950 1500 +57% 1500 Information from TOR FASHION HYPERCRATE: ETERNAL COMMAND PACKS 4680 7020 +50% 7020 Information from TOR FASHION
Game Update 5.1: Defend the Throne Patch Notes
Here are the patch notes for tomorrows game update: New Chapter Difficulty – Master! Earn new Achievements with this new way to experience the Knights of the Fallen Empire and Knights of the Eternal Throne Chapters! New Uprisings! Jump into the action with five new Uprisings across the galaxy! Trench Runner – Republic Loyalists under the command of General Amos Rike have displaced Alliance forces on Denova and seized control of the baradium mines. Efforts to reclaim the mines have been thwarted by Republic artillery bombarding the “no man’s land” between the Alliance beach head and the central processing facility. But where an army fails, a small team could succeed in navigating the battlefield trenches and taking out the Republic defenses. Destroyer of Worlds – Jedi Master Adelade is trying to awaken a dangerous abomination that has hibernated beneath the surface of Makeb for millennia. No records exist of this…
Star Wars Force Arena | Boba Fett Overview Gameplay + Tips & Tricks!
Star Wars Force Arena is a mobile real-time PVP game from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Korean app company Netmarble Games. You might have seen us talk about it here on the site before. It’s a multiplayer online battle area game that lets you pit iconic Star Wars characters against one another. You can also choose a dream team to battle it out for bragging rights of the best of the best. It’s a lot of fun if you love Star Wars games and it’s also a great mobile game to give you something to do on the go. If you’re bored on the bus or train, waiting at an appointment, or just looking to pass some downtime, this is a great game to goof off with. So, as we said, you can play as all of the iconic Star Wars characters. It features characters, location, and technology from the Star Wars…
Revisiting Star Wars Galaxies
If you have fond memories of Star Wars Galaxies, here is a video that will take you back. If you’ve been playing over at SWGEmu, then you’ll also appreciate this video. If you’re a Star Wars or Star Wars game fan who has not played SWG, you will still find this interesting. The video below takes a look back into the very popular game. While the official servers closed before SWTOR launched, you can now play the game once more if you still have an original copy of the game. The emulator allows you to experience the game as it was before, despite the official servers being dead long ago. So whether you wish to wax nostalgic about SWG or learn more about this defunct game that Star Wars gamer fans keep talking about, you will appreciate this video. It’s going to take you from the very beginning of explaining…
Star: Wars Force Arena | Bossk Overview Gameplay + Tips & Tricks!
Star Wars Force Arena is a mobile real-time PVP game from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Korean app company Netmarble Games. We’ve covered it here on the site before and you may have seen it written about elsewhere also. It’s a multiplayer online battle area game that lets you pit iconic Star Wars characters against one another. Imagine Darth Vader, Princess Leia and all of your other favorites having mini battles. It’s great! You can also build your own dream team to battle it out and you can play against your friends. It’s a fun little mobile game to give you something to do on your phone when you’re just passing the time, or to play regularly if you really get into it. You can play as all of the iconic Star Wars characters. It features characters, location, and technology from the Star Wars saga up to Star Wars Rebels and also Rogue…
How New Technologies Will Change the Face of Star Wars Games
The last few decades have seen video game technologies develop at an incredible rate, going from milestone to milestone in a matter of years. As the world became increasingly interconnected in the 2000s, video games too have allowed people to instantly connect with one another across continents in real time with online gaming. The seminal Star Wars: Battlefront was released for this generation of consoles and allowed players to control a single soldier as part of a much larger army – pitting two teams against each other. Now in 2017, an embryonic technology is emerging in the form of virtual reality and the first few releases are likely to completely revolutionise the gaming experience. Where home consoles put games in players’ living rooms and handheld consoles brought them into our hands, virtual reality instead immerses the player fully inside the game. New downloadable content for the Star Wars Battlefront: Rogue…
Star Wars: Force Arena Balance Update Details (Will be applied 1/20)
Tomorrow will see it’s first game update and servers will be going down for maintenance for about three hours between 7 and 10 a.m. UTC (11 p.m.-2 a.m. PT / 2-5 a.m. ET). Here are the details: Commanders! Welcome to our first balance update since the Global Release! Our developers have been pouring over the data we’ve received from you guys, from in-game data and the communities, and have decided to do a little balance update to help keep the game in a healthy state. We are working hard to make sure that there is a good level of balance in the game, and even if there are times where it is not perfect, we will actively be looking at how to improve it. This balance patch will be focused primarily on balancing Leaders and the early tier Empire Cards. There will also be a few changes made to the…
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 3 – Everything We Know About The Cancelled Star Wars Game
Were you one of many fans let down when Star Wars: The Force Unleashed III was cancelled? You are not alone as this was one of the most highly anticipated Star Wars games ever and many people were disappointed when it was cancelled. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was incredibly popular but Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II did not fare so well. It was a big burn for the sequel to one of the best and fastest selling Star Wars games of all time. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is an action-adventure platform video game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the second installment of the The Force Unleashed multimedia project, and the sequel to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed III was supposed to be the third installment in the franchise but sadly, this game would never be. Like many other Star Wars projects to…
Top 10 Star Wars Mods for Your Favorite Games
Love modding your Star Wars games? Whether you’re a Jedi Master of customization or just Force-pushing your way into modding for the first time, this updated guide will walk you through 10 of the most essential Star Wars mods for classic and modern games alike. 🔮 KOTOR Mods That Still Slap 1. Brotherhood of Shadow: Solomon’s Revenge (Knights of the Old Republic) One of the most ambitious story overhauls ever made for KOTOR, this mod introduces an entire new narrative arc, new characters, and cinematic sequences that feel as close to canon as you can get. 📹 Add this to your KOTOR build ASAP. 🔗 Related: Ultimate KOTOR Modding Guide for 2025 (https://swtorstrategies.com/2025/02/the-ultimate-knights-of-the-old-republic-modding-guide-for-2025.html) 2. KOTOR Restoration 1.2 Fixes dozens of bugs, reintroduces cut content, and helps KOTOR play like a modern RPG. Think of it as the unofficial director’s cut. 3. HD Textures + Lighting Overhaul If you’re still playing…
SWTOR Game Update 5.1 – Coming January 24, 2017
The SWTOR team over at BioWare just posted a small update regarding what to expect with game update 5.1. Most of this is already known, but there is some new info regarding a new cartel pack comming with the patch. Check it out: Bolster your defenses with the galaxy’s newest gear, including never-before-seen armor, vehicles, weapons, and more! Lead a covert strike wearing the new Silent Warden Jedi robes, channel your inner fighter pilot with the Resourceful Engineer’s Armor, or roll into battle atop the Dread Behemoth tank. Check out the new pack in the in-game Cartel Market! The other stuff about 5.1 were things we already know – 5 new uprisings, Master mode chapters.
Star Wars: Rise of the Empire – A Star Wars Fan Film
An empire will rise. Join the rebels in the biggest battles across the galaxy in this epic Star Wars fan film. This is a really awesome fan film from BTV that you have to see for yourself. Created entirely in GTA V using mods, this was an exhaustive creation with over 125 shots and fx, Rise of the Empire is their biggest Grand Theft Auto machinima. This is absolutely stunning! Visually it’s bright and crisp. The story and cinematography are engaging. The sound effects and music are spot-on. This film will get you excited just the way a Star Wars film should. You’ll be on the edge of your seat to see what happens next. Personally, I’m a fan of machinima already. I think it takes a lot of creativity and they can be so much fun to watch but this one goes above and beyond most I have seen. It’s clean, it’s realistic,…
Changes to the Cartel Market — Tuesday January 17 2017
Here are the weekly cartel market items on sale for the week of January 17 – January 24 2017. Remember you can support this blog by buying your cartel coins on Amazon via this link were you also will get a Exclusive Item [Online Game Code] New Items Price Helpful links EMBER AKK DOG 240 Information from TOR FASHION
SWTOR Season 7 Update
Eric Musco too on the official forums to explain why it took the SWTOR Developers so damn long to release the Top 96 pvp titles for Season 7. Season 7 Update | 01.13.2017, 02:46 PM Hey folks, Let’s talk about Season 7. We have just finished our full investigation of Season 7 and a few things have happened. All users who were found to be win-trading, hacking, botting, etc. have had their Season 7 ratings wiped out on all of their characters, they have been removed from the leaderboards, and appropriate ToS action has been levied against their account. With those actions being taken, we have gone ahead and sent the top 96 titles to the top performers of Season 7, so be sure to check your mailbox. We wanted to explain a little bit about why this process delayed the Season 7 rewards. In past seasons we started to…
Star Wars Dark Forces DOS PC Game Review
Here we have a Star Wars: Dark Forces DOS PC game review. Kyle Katarn is The Original Rogue One. Forget Jyn Erso! Dark Forces is the first Star Wars FPS, one of the standout old Star Wars games from the DOS era. This is a great retro PC game and if you were lucky enough to get to play it back then, you know that there were not a lot of other games out there like this and there were none like it in the Star Wars name yet. This game definitely paved the way for the many games like it that would come after. So let’s take a look at this great video from The Game Show that reviews the game while also giving us a little blast from the past into retro PC Star Wars gaming. Transcript: In the opening cutscene of Dark Forces, we see Mon Mothma hire a…
Concept Art Revealed from Cancelled Darth Maul Video Game
Do you remember that Darth Maul video game that was being developed by Red Fly Studios a few years ago? Many fans were sad to see it put on ice after Lucas sold the Star Wars license over to Disney. Alas, it was yet another canned Star Wars games and since Darth Maul had a pretty big following among fans, the disappointment was definitely real. If you didn’t hear about this game back then, it really sounded cool. Since the game was cancelled, we have seen some concept art appear here and there, showing us what might have been. Now, conceptual artist Thomas A. Szakolczay has updated his website with even more concept art from the defunct game. “Back in 2011, I was fortunate enough to work with Lucas Arts and Red Fly Studios to help develop the look direction for a new Star Wars IP that centered around Darth…
Survivors – Star Wars Fan film
It seems like December 2016 was the month of the fan film and we have another one for you to check out. Survivors, from Cinemage is a film that gets right to the action and suspense from the first scene. You’ll see a chase and a lightsaber fight all within the first minute. It really gets your Star Wars blood pumping to find out what happened and why. Who are the survivors? What are they surviving? Who will win this battle? Honestly, it might leave more questions than answers once you watch it all but personally, I loved how it whets the appetite and makes you want to see more. I hope they keep writing, keep acting, and keep filming. There’s nothing like true Star Wars fans to capture the spirit of the franchise and that’s part of what makes these fan films so much fun to watch. Even when they’re not…
Changes to the Cartel Market — Tuesday January 10 2017
Here are the weekly cartel market items on sale for the week of january 10 – January 17 2017. New Items Price Helpful links HORIZON GUARD’S ARMOR SET 1440 Information from TOR FASHION Items No Longer Available Helpful links 2016 LIFE DAY BUNDLE Information from TOR FASHION FESTIVE WEAPON TUNING Information from TOR FASHION LIFE DAY HOLO-SHRUB Information from TOR FASHION CREATURE COMPANION: WAMPA Information from TOR FASHION FESTIVE TAUNTAUN
A Look Back At KOTOR 2
In the Star Wars universe, we usually find it easy to see the difference between the Dark Side and the Light Side. Lightsaber colors, clothing choices, and other factors make it clear which side a character is on. This battle for balance between the Dark and Light is part of the point of the Star Wars story. If you played KOTOR 2, however, you start to see for the first time in a Star Wars game that there is grey area. Sometimes it’s not so easy to block a character into one side of the other. KOTOR 2 is the perfect example of this. In this game, the villain is not always so easy to spot. Sometimes the lines between “good” and “bad” are blurred, or difficult to spot. This is something that adds a new, creative, and more interesting element to KOTOR 2, versus KOTOR 1. Sometimes characters are…
Star Wars Games We Would Like To See
The Star Wars franchise has hatched hundreds of video games over the years and will continue to produce gaming content in the Star Wars universe for every device imaginable. Those games have resulted in this website being produced and we’re happy to continue keeping you informed on Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars games in general with updates, comments, reviews and more. While 2017 promises to deliver new content for Star Wars: Battlefront, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes and Star Wars: The Old Republic, we’re never satisfied and our appetite for Star Wars gaming experiences knows no bounds. With that in mind, here are the Star Wars games we would most like to see and play right now. Star Wars Exhibition Madrid” (CC BY 2.0) by jorgeip The pod racing scene from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace was one of the few highlights of a largely disappointing film…
SWTOR January Producer’s Livestream Coverage
Dulfy did a write up of the January SWTOR Producer’s Livestream. You can read it all below, but the original write up can be found over at Reddit LIVESTREAM NOTES Agenda This livestream will be mostly a recap of previously discussed things without much new information. The livestream at end of January will discuss some of the things coming in March. Community Topics Game Update 5.1 Endgame/Gearing Changes Looking Forward Community Topics Endgame gaming – Already discussed in previous livestream but will do a recap in endgame/gearing changes What is coming after January? – Will be discussed in Jan 26 livestream Season 7 top 3 titles – Working on removing the “cheaters” off the leaderboards so they can hand out the top 96 titles. Should be out by end of next week the latest. We are also aware of the increased cheating in PvP in the past two weeks. We are…
Gaming History : Star Wars Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast – “The Jedi Simulator”
Back before the Disney Era, back before Electronic Arts was the only company allowed to make Star Wars games, there was a series named Star Wars Dark Forces Jedi Knight, staring the bearded wonder himself, Kyle Katarn. And though his age has long passed, let us remember that one day, long ago, there existed something called a Jedi Sim. GaminGHD has a great video that takes us back in time to enjoy a bit of nostalgic video game and Star Wars history. Here’s a great blast from the past, especially as we look at new Star Wars games coming out today and lament the many cancelled Star Wars games that will sadly never see the light of the day. Star Wars Jedi Knight 2 was a first and third-person action game set in the Star Wars: Jedi Knight series. It was available for Windows, the Xbox, and the GameCube and released in 2002….
Should Star Wars Expand its Gaming Horizons?
Star Wars has enjoyed a revitalisation to their franchise with the launch of a new series of films, beginning in 2015 with The Force Awakens. The trend continued with Rogue One which was released at the end of last year, with both movies enjoying great success at the box office with the latter surpassing the $800m mark following its release before Christmas. One of the most prominent avenues of the series’ success has been the fruitful transition of the franchise on to several gaming platforms. Beginning with the Empire Strikes Back on Atari in 1982, two years following the release of the film, the series has gone from strength to strength, and has even spawned several spin-offs in all formats, including shoot ‘em-ups, RPG and action-adventure. Where’s the Star Wars Slot Game? However, for all the success the series has enjoyed across multiple platforms, one area it has not strayed…