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PEGI Announces Two Classic Star Wars Games Coming to PS3

The Pan European Game Information board (PEGI) has some news about the release of two games fro the PS3. Rumor has it these are re-releases of two classic Star Wars games. These titles were originally released for the PS2 and Xbox. Stevivor tells us: Assumedly heading to the PS3 under the PlayStation Classics range are Star Wars: Starfighter and Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, both recently reclassified by PEGI. Both titles were originally released on PS2 and Xbox. The original Jedi Starfighter had some interesting features and upgrades. Here are some points from LucasArts when the game first released. Single and dual player action in over 15 story-based missions. Fly all missions co-op with a friend – or in single-player mode – in a variety of craft. Sneak a peek at Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones thrills! Fly the new Jedi Starfighter and get a preview of characters, story connections, craft…

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Star Wars Pinball: Star Wars Rebels Coming to Zen Pinball 2

A new pinball table is revealed by Zenstudios and it’s based on the popular animated TV show on Disney XD, Star Wars Rebels. The new pinball game is called Star Wars Pinball: Star Wars Rebels. This new pinball game will take players on a journey to the far away galaxy and you will get to team up with the crew on starship Ghost, which includes Ezra Bridger, Zeb Orrelios, Sabine Wren, Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla, and the Droid Chopper. The team comes together to fight the evil empire and the table will feature completely animated starships, Chopper’s mini playfield, seven exciting and new missions, a flaming engine thruster spindisk, and the Ghost and TIE fighters. Many Star Wars fans have been chomping at the bit to see if Zenstudios will continue their work with Lucasfilm to create a brand new pinball table. They are thrilled to let everyone know that…

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5 Fantastic Star Wars board games

For Star Wars fans there is nothing like the feeling of playing your favorite Star Wars game or watching your favorite Star Wars movies, but did you know there are some epic Star Wars board games out there? If not, here is a list of tabletop Star Wars games that you should check out, you can thank us later. Star Wars: Armada Want to plan your own spaceships course? Look no further than Star Wars: Armada. It takes some time to become a pro at this game, but true Star Wars fans will love it! Armada might seem a bit overwhelming (and a bit too geeky) at first. You use a plastic stick with a series of joints to plot the course of your ships. There are shields to consider on each side of your big ships, with dials to turn as you take damage. Do you want to use…

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Star Wars 1313 isn’t dead yet

A large-scale 3rd person style action game named Star Wars 1313 became cancelled after Disney took over Lucasfilm, however this games remains could be fuel for The Force Awakens. Currently, there are three Star Wars games in the works for PC and console gaming systems and the three development companies are Visceral Games, DICE, and BioWare. They all belong to the EA Games Company. BioWare delivered us the RPG game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic during 2003 and DICE is scheduled to release Star Wars: Battlefront close to the end of 2015. Visceral and EA recently gave an announcement that Amy Hennig would be responsible for the story line for the new Star Wars game. She will also be working with Todd Stashwik and they both are known for their work on Uncharted 4. When comparing Uncharted 4 and the trailer for Star Wars 1313 you can see…

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If EA Created a New Star Wars Game

We love Star Wars games around here and most of you will know that there has been no shortage of ideas for them but very few that make it to completion and then stick around for any period of time for people to actually enjoy them. This can be very frustrating for the Star Wars gamer fan. How many games in the past couple of years have we seen scrapped? (Stop it already developers!) So here is a question to ponder: If EA was to create a new Star Wars game that isn’t part of an existing series (like Battlefront, Rogue Squadron, etc.) what would you want it to be about? If you could write the plot and script for a new Star Wars game, what would your game be about? Would you be looking for something with more of a Star Wars Galaxies feel to it or would you…

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Star Wars Commander Gets Major New Update

Last Thursday, Lucasfilm and Disney both let everyone know about the newest update for Star Wars: Commander, the mobile game, which has a new storyline and different elements that can be used during gameplay. The popular mobile game was originally released in August of 2014 and since then it’s been a favorite among many, having 15 million downloads so far. This new campaign is called “Secret Alliances”, and the main goal is players fighting to keep the fate of the planet Er’Kit secure. Some of the new gameplay elements that are included are contraband, traps, and Starships. The new update is available today and if you don’t already have the mobile game, you can download it for free from Google Play or iTunes. Find out about more of the new additions here.  Disney and Lucasfilm on Thursday announced the latest update for mobile game Star Wars: Commander, introducing a new…

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Star Wars Humble Bundle Blows Clean Past $1 Million Mark

..and it does it in less than 24 hours. Indeed, a Humble Bundle of games tossed onto the market in cooperation with Unicef, has raised some $1.3 million in less than 24 hours. The bundle is made up of a number of Star Wars-themed games, depending on how much money the buyer is paying for the deal. More than 134,000 sales of the bundle were registered within the first 24 hours of the Humble Bundle’s availability, and the package is slated to be kept available for an additional 13 days. The excellent performance logged by the Star Wars bundle put it right into second place on the all-time best selling Humble Bundles list, second only to the Sid Meier Humble Bundle, which managed to accrue more than $1.7 million over its first 2 days. How exactly does this Humble Bundle deal work though? Players interested in picking up the game…

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Star Wars Humble Bundle is a Deal You Don’t Want to Miss

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I will admit, I am a big fan of Humble Bundle. Not only have I used it to get some pretty sweet deals on games for myself, but we also use it often in a gaming community I am part of to get great game prizes for our members. It’s a good idea for gifts, too. Humble Bundle works by allowing you to choose your price. The number of games  you get from a bundle is based around the average price donated so far. If you get in early, you can usually get the lowest pricing. Of course, if you really like what they’re doing and you want to support the developers, Humble Bundle and charity, you can donate more. So you name your price and you can pay with credit card or Paypal and you get the games included in that bundle. I like that nearly all the games…

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Petition to EA to finish production of Star Wars 1313!

In 2012, at E3, Lucasarts showed a demo of Star Wars 1313 and everyone was amazed and excited about it. Gamers were excited to finally be able to play a Star Wars games as the bounty hunter on Coruscant. However, after Lucasarts broke apart EA purchased the game licenses and they ended up cancelling the game. Quite recently, concept art and information about the story for 1313 became released and the game sounds even better than before. Star Wars fans we need to come together and sign this petition to help get this awesome game completed! Click here to sign the petition.

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Star Wars: Battle Pod – From Concept to Cockpit

The official Star Wars Youtube channel posted a video called Star Wars: Battle Pod – From Concept to office design. The video goes behind the scenes of Star Wars: Battle Pod, a new arcade shooter from Lucasfilm, Disney Interactive, and Bandai Namco, in this special video from StarWars.com Star Wars: Battle Pod, with an enveloping dome screen, air blasts, and rumble, redefines the Star Wars arcade experience for a new generation. The first Star Wars game ever was an arcade shooter, released in 1983, and many other Star Wars arcade games followed through the years — Star Wars: Battle Pod hearkens back to that tradition. “We’re going back to our roots, so to speak,” says Lucasfilm’s Matt Shell, “in developing this really exciting arcade unit.” The game takes players through the original Star Wars trilogy, from the Battle of Yavin to Endor, with some surprises along the way. Combined with…

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Star Wars: Battle Pod Arcade Game Is Like Living The Original Trilogy

A new Star Wars Battle Pod arcade style game has been released in the US and will be available to ship everywhere by March. This cool throw back style games uses a panoramic cockpit display. Because of this style of display it’s referencing back to Starblade in many ways. In 2001, Namco decided to make a sequel for the first Starblade. It was one of the first games in the USGF series that used a concave mirror to reflect the game and make a panoramic effect to make it feel real. It also used 3D graphics with polygons and was one of the first of its kind to do so. When Starblade Operation Blue Planet was shown at arcade shows, Namco wanted to make sure they impressed the way the original Starblade did. However, it never released to the public. The new Star Wars Battle Pod game is using the…

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Visceral Games “CAN’T WAIT” TO SHOW OFF NEW STAR WARS GAME, SOMETHING “VERY COOL” ON THE HORIZON

Following up on the upcoming Han Solo game rumor, we came by a few tweets from  Amy Hennig, who is the Creative Director For the new ‘Star Wars’ Project, and Todd Stashwick who is Co-Writing Visceral’s Star Wars Game Everyone who has played the Uncharted trilogy video games understands how talented the writer, Amy Henning, is. The games made you feel like you were actually Nathan Drake, or one of his buddies, and it made you feel what the character felt. Amy Henning does not work for Naughty Dog anymore when she left to join EA’s Visceral Games in order to work on an unannounced Star Wars title. We assume that since the very talented writer is going to be a part of this new Star Wars game, we will be sure to experience a rollercoaster of emotions. We all know by now that there isn’t much info on the new Star Wars…

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Rumor: Visceral Is Developing A Han Solo Game

Everyone is excited about The Force Awakens and because of this we sometimes forget that there are new Star Wars games in the works right now. We all know that Star Wars Battlefront is going to be released later in the year but Visceral has another game in development. EA has not yet revealed what the games will be about but there are many rumors of what it could possibly be. Star Wars 7 News is claiming that they know what it will be about. According to their sources it will be based on Han Solo and it could connect to a film. In 2013, EA stated that they would no longer be making any games developed from movies but this does not mean that the possibility of a game connecting with a new film could happen; it could be a prequel. This would be an exciting new take on…

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Star Wars: Battlefront vs EA’s Open World Star Wars Game!

The new and upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront has not received a release date as of yet, but we do know that the date of “Holiday 2015” means that we have something to look forward to. Hopefully we will have some excellent gaming before we get our hands on the new Battlefront game. The question we want to ask today is would you rather play Star Wars: Battlefront or EA’s Open World Star Wars game? The only information that has been released for Star Wars: Battlefront is that there should be a small connection to the Star Wars: Episode VII-The Force Awakens, something in the likeness of easter eggs or characters and ships. Kotaku confirmed that EA was in development of an open world style game set in the Star Wars universe, but there are no details about what the game will include. We think that it will not be another…

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LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga for Android arrives for $6.99

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga for Android is currently available on Amazon, and hasn’t shown up on the Play Store yet. This usually means a period of exclusivity, and it’s probably a good thing as the App Store listing shows it’s only compatible with around seven smartphones and nine tablets. More devices should be added, but you’ll want to check the list first and keep in mind it’s a big download as well. [Via androidpolice.com] When gamers first met LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game in 2005, it was a multi-platform title available for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Gamecube, and PC (along with an isometric 2D version for the Game Boy Advance). It applied the virtual toy block treatment to worlds and events from the three Star Wars prequels, and sprinkled on some of the humor we’ve since come to expect from LEGO over the years. The game was a…

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Are the recent free Star Wars games worth your time (and money)?

macworld.com posted an interesting story earlier this month, discussing the value of the new free Star Wars Games that has been up in the media over the last few years. The story is actually most about the new game called Star Wars: Galactic Defense, but the writer also takes a few shots at Star Wars: Commander. Until recently, the top Star Wars game available on the App Store was the cute and undeniably charming Tiny Death Star, an official spinoff of the immensely popular Tiny Tower that made a building management simulation feel light and breezy. But Disney suddenly pulled the game in October, leaving a potential void for Star Wars fans seeking a worthwhile free-to-play iPhone or iPad experience. But a couple of contenders have emerged of late, and both tackle different kinds of familiar mobile strategy genres. Disney’s own Star Wars: Commander uses Clash of Clans as a…

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Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader Join Star Wars: Commander

Star Wars: Commander, the recently released Star Wars strategy game, is going to receive a new update tomorrow. The update is going to include, among some yet to be fully detailed changes, support for two characters that will also be released with the update as part of a limited-time campaign – Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. They were strangely not included in the game at launch, but will come with special abilities that will bring a sound advantage to players. Star Wars: Commander has been originally released this August in soft-launch mode on the Australia App Store, becoming available in all other regions some time later. The game is a free to play strategy that doesn’t play all that differently from Clash Of Clans and other similar games, as players will have to defend their home bases by using troops and vehicles taken from the Star Wars Universe, as well as Heroes like Han…

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The Best Star Wars Video Game Ever: Nostalgia Time

Now here is a topic we’ve talked about here before. What are the best Star Wars video games of all time? This is a question that always brings back strong feelings of nostalgia as we think on some of the games that have come and gone. It’s also a question that comes up from time to time in the form of a poll. This certainly isn’t the first time we’ve seen this and I doubt it will be the last but here is a list on Ranker that talks about the best Star Wars video game ever. Currently in first place is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (no surprise there). You can vote on the 34 items in the list and give points to your pick for favorite Star Wars game ever. Some other titles on the list: Star Wars Arcade Star Wars: X-Wing Star Wars: The Force…

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Star Wars Retro games: Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles

I remember purchasing this game when it first came out and I fell in love with it. I would play for hours on end and never get tired of it. In this game, you choose from one of five Episode I-era Jedi to run, jump, slash, and use the Force with through the game’s ten levels. Each Jedi has his or her own Force powers and special items. For instance, Obi-Wan Kenobi has a forward dash-and-slash move and uses thermal detonators, while his teacher Qui-Gon Jinn produces a Force shock wave and tosses around pulse grenades. No matter which character you control though, you play through the film’s plot as if you were Obi-Wan or Qui-Gon, from the scene where the trade council tries to poison them to the final battle with the notorious evil Sith Darth Maul. The gameplay is a refined version of that found in Star Wars: Episode…

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Star Wars: Battle Pod Arcade Game Revealed

There’s a new Star Wars game coming, this time to the arcades. The first Star Wars announcement to come out of New York comic-Con was the news that Bandai Namco has unveiled Star Wars: Battle Pod, an arcade game. In this game, players will sit in a simulated cockpit and be able to pilot several cool vehicles on various missions. Here is some info from the official site for the game: The game includes five stages that recreate the fiercest battle scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy. Loaded with features and unique gameplay elements, players can experience the impact of the explosions and destruction that will leave them with a sense of actually piloting and taking part in action-packed scenes from the films. Enabling the player to be surrounded by gameplay images and experiences on the dome screen, players will truly take command of the vehicles that appear in the…

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Star Wars Commander Launched For Android, Windows

After 5 million downloads on iOS, Disney’s free-to-play mobile game launches recently for Android and Windows devices and fans are happy. Mobile games are exploding in popularity and Star Wars fans want to be able to take their Star Wars gaming on the go. But previously, you couldn’t enjoy the popular Star Wars Commander unless you had an Apple device. I, for one, was disappointed because I don’t use iOS. I am happy with my Samsung Android devices. Apparently, I was not the only one because after popular demand, Disney decided to release the F2P game for other devices this September. As Gamespot explains: Following its release in late August, Disney’s free-to-play mobile game Star War Commander has jumped up the charts with 5 million downloads on iOS alone. Now, the game is expanding further, launching today for two new platforms: Android and Windows devices. Star Wars Commander is a…

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Star Wars: Commander is your next Star Wars game

Disney Interactive just announced Star Wars: Commander, a free-to-play game for mobile devices. The game, which is available for iOS devices, is set between George Lucas’ original two Star Wars movies and follows players from the planet of Tattooine as their careers advance inside whichever group they choose to belong to. The combat strategy game will be familiar to fans of that genre. Players control a commander of either Rebel of Imperial forces and deploy vehicles and troops into battle. The difference, of course, is that “Star Wars: Commander” gives fans the chance to deploy Stormtroopers AT-AT’s, and X-Wings. And characters they’ll meet along the way include Han Solo and Chewbacca (voiced by sound-alikes, not the original cast). “Commander,” which like most new mobile games is free-to-play but includes paid options for players who want to advance more quickly, includes both single player and competitive multi-player options. The single player…

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Rumor: Possible Bounty Hunter Game Coming in the Future

Many fans were very disappointed to see the cancellation of Star Wars 1313, the bounty hunter game that many were looking forward to. However, it’s possible we might see another bounty hunter game to take its place in coming years. Of course 2016 is still a far way off and many things could change. Check out the video for more on this rumor. What are the chances we will see Star Wars Force Unleashed 3 gameplay trailer or Bounty Hunter game w/ Boba Fett on PS4, Xbox One and PC? Well, the answer may surprise you! 2016 is a year to pay attention to!”

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Star Wars Battlefront Not to Tie in to Episode VII

Since the announcement of the next Star Wars Battlefront game, many have been wondering if it will tie in to Episode VII and in what ways. We now have a new report Star Wars Underworld has this to say: Executive Vice President of EA Studios Patrick Soderlund recently spoke about how the game may or may not be connected the the upcoming film: “We’ve shown parts of the game to date. You know what were building is more rooted in the traditional Star Wars universe, not so much linked to the movie being made.” He continues, “We wanted to make a game that celebrates the history of Star Wars. We don’t have a particular tie to the movie, but obviously we would prefer to launch Battlefront sometime close to when the movie launches,” This is not a definite shut down of the idea but it looks like we won’t be seeing any maps, characters…

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