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…
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Star Wars Battlefront II Is Back in the PS4 Charts, Because This Game Refuses to Die
Nearly nine years after launch, EA and DICE’s Star Wars shooter is still one of the most downloaded PS4 games. At this point, Battlefront II is less a game and more a very stubborn Force ghost. Star Wars Battlefront II is back in the PlayStation Store charts. Again. According to PlayStation’s latest June 2026 top downloads, the 2017 shooter was the 4th most downloaded PS4 game in the US and Canada last month. In Europe, it landed at number 9. That is not bad for a game that launched in 2017, ended live-service development years ago, and has spent most of its afterlife being used as evidence in the eternal argument for Battlefront III. And yet here we are. Battlefront II is still being downloaded, still being played, and still refusing to quietly shuffle off into the great bargain bin in the sky. Why Is Battlefront II Still Pulling Players…