E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo) was quite the year for a Star Wars fan with major news coming out of both LucasArts and Bioware (responsible for the Old Republic). Both The Force Unleashed II displayed new trailers and new gameplay which should be of interest to any Star Wars or gaming fan. What I don’t [...]

Sometimes a whole bunch of news comes out during the course of a given week that articles just don’t last long enough on our front page. Or perhaps it’s just that the piece of news wasn’t enough to warrant a front page story, but is still deserving of being recognized as newsworthy. In Case You [...]

The world (or would that be galaxy?) of Star Wars games has grown oddly silent in the past three years. The introduction of The Force Unleashed, and the massive, integrated marketing push that came with it, seems to have changed how LucasArts (and partners) go about business. And by that, I mean that at this [...]

If you’re reading this article, chances are pretty good that you’re aware that Paul Kemp’s new novel, Crosscurrent, will be released within the next week. Now, I have to imagine that the average reader of that novel will not have played Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy, a PC, Mac and Xbox game originally released back [...]

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was released in 2008 as the first next generation Star Wars game, bringing with it a mountain of promises. This was to be one of the biggest multi-media launches for Star Wars since Shadows of the Empire and it was to demonstrate the power of modern console systems with Digital [...]

Terminated edition
 
Relentless. That’s how I can best describe Timothy Zahn’s prequel book to the upcoming movie, Terminator – Salvation: From the Ashes. For the first review in the ‘Galaxy Not So Far Away’ column, I’ll take a look at this book, give a spoiler summary and my opinion and recommendation on the novel itself. Click [...]