There are some Star Wars games that arrive with a lot of noise behind them. Big legacy. Big nostalgia. Big arguments. And then there are games like Star Wars: Battle for Naboo, which mostly showed up, did a lot of things well, and somehow still ended up living in the shadow of the louder titles around it. That is a bit unfair, because this game matters more than people tend to remember. Released on Nintendo 64 in late 2000 and later brought to Windows in 2001, Battle for Naboo was co-developed by Factor 5 and LucasArts as an arcade-style action game and a spiritual follow-up to Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. It traded the Original Trilogy’s dogfights for the Trade Federation invasion of Naboo, put players in the boots of Royal Security Forces lieutenant Gavyn Sykes, and mixed air, land, and water vehicles across a 15-mission campaign. And honestly, that pitch…
The Mandalorian & Grogu Finally Lets Pedro Pascal Fight Helmet-Off
Din Djarin taking his helmet off is not exactly a casual Tuesday in The Mandalorian. It usually means vows, trauma, emotional breakthroughs, or Grogu looking at him with those enormous “please ruin the internet” eyes. But in The Mandalorian & Grogu, it sounds like Pedro Pascal is not just getting helmet-off drama. He is getting helmet-off action. During recent press for the movie, Jon Favreau revealed that Pascal filmed “great set-pieces” with his helmet off, adding that the team leaned into Pascal’s physicality for some very specific reasons. As Favreau put it, Pascal was a competitive swimmer, so they got him in the water — and after seeing his combat work in Gladiator II, they also had him fighting without the helmet. Vis dette opslag på Instagram Et opslag delt af Omelete (@omelete) Din Djarin, But More Pedro This Time That is a pretty big shift for a character built…
Andor Just Won a BAFTA for Making Star Wars Feel Real
Andor has picked up another very deserved trophy — and this one goes straight to the people who made the galaxy feel heavy, dirty, dangerous, and beautifully expensive in all the right places. The series won Special, Visual and Graphic Effects at the 2026 BAFTA Television Craft Awards, with BAFTA naming Mohen Leo, TJ Falls, Luke Murphy, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clément Soret, and Industrial Light & Magic as the winning team for Andor. The result is listed on BAFTA’s official Special, Visual and Graphic Effects award page. The Invisible Work That Made Andor Hit Harder This is the kind of award that fits Andor perfectly, because the show’s effects work was never about shouting, “Look, expensive pixels!” It was about texture. Imperial facilities looked cold and cruel. Ferrix felt lived-in, worn down, and politically tense. Spacecraft had weight. Cities had systems. Prisons felt industrial rather than fantastical. Even when Andor went…
PowerWash Simulator 2 Is Getting a Star Wars Pack
There are many heroic jobs in the Star Wars galaxy. Jedi Knight. Rebel pilot. Mandalorian bounty hunter. Moisture farmer who somehow still gets dragged into galactic drama. And now, finally, the role destiny has been building toward since 1977: cleaning Imperial grime off very famous objects with a power washer. FuturLab has announced a new Star Wars Pack for PowerWash Simulator 2, bringing the galaxy far, far away into the deeply satisfying world of blasting dirt off things until your brain releases the happy chemicals. According to the official PowerWash Simulator 2 Star Wars Pack page, players step into the role of P0-W2, a Class Five cleaning droid dragged into a very dirty original trilogy adventure. Rebellions Are Built on Hope, and Soap The pack is set during the events of A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, which means this is not some random…
SWG Restoration Just Made Open PvP Look Fun Again
Sometimes a great MMO story does not look like a cinematic trailer, a massive expansion reveal, or a carefully staged developer showcase. Sometimes it looks like a petri dish full of angry red dots. That is exactly what Star Wars Galaxies Restoration showed off on X, where a small tactical map revealed something far cooler than it first appeared: three teams of players clashing in open PvP during the server’s Petranaki Tournament. According to the post, the chaos was effectively 30 vs. 30 vs. 30, with players split across three temporary factions: Acklay, Nexu, and Reek. Yes, those names are doing exactly what your prequel-loving brain thinks they are doing. Team Pride, But Make It Very SWG The best little touch? Players also receive visible team pins showing whether they are fighting for Acklay, Nexu, or Reek. It is a tiny cosmetic detail, but very Star Wars Galaxies in spirit….
Three Years Later, Star Wars: Heritage Pack Is Still a Ridiculous Value
On April 27, 2023, Star Wars: Heritage Pack launched digitally for Nintendo Switch, quietly becoming one of the easiest ways to carry a small museum of Star Wars gaming around in your backpack. According to Nintendo Life’s listing for Star Wars: Heritage Pack, the Switch eShop release landed on April 27, 2023, while the physical version followed later. Three years later, the package still feels a bit absurd — in the best possible way. Seven Games, One Very Dangerous Backlog The bundle collects seven classic Star Wars games: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Knights of the Old Republic, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Episode I Racer, and Republic Commando. That is not a casual collection. That is a whole era of Star Wars gaming stuffed into one digital hyperspace suitcase. The official Star Wars Heritage Pack site…
Five Years Ago, SWTOR Quietly Changed Its Live-Service Future
On April 27, 2021, Star Wars: The Old Republic released Game Update 6.3: The Dark Descent — and at first glance, it looked like a solid mid-cycle content patch. A new Flashpoint. A new reward system. A new Ranked PvP season. Very MMO. Very patch notes. Very “please download 4GB and pretend this will only take five minutes.” But five years later, 6.3 feels more important than it may have seemed at the time. This was not just another update in the long Onslaught era. It quietly helped shape the live-service version of SWTOR that still exists today. Secrets of the Enclave Took Us Back to Dantooine The headline story content was Secrets of the Enclave, a new Flashpoint that sent players to Dantooine in pursuit of Darth Malgus. The official Game Update 6.3 launch post highlighted it as one of the update’s main additions, alongside Galactic Seasons and Ranked…
21 Years Ago, Star Wars Galaxies Changed Forever
On April 27, 2005, Star Wars Galaxies did not release a new expansion, launch a new planet, or hand everyone a shiny lightsaber with a polite little tutorial. It did something far more dangerous. It changed how the game worked. The Combat Upgrade, listed in Galaxies’ update history as a free major online revamp, went live 21 years ago today — and for many veteran players, that date still lands like a thermal detonator in the nostalgia compartment. The update arrived between Jump to Lightspeed and Rage of the Wookiees, right in the middle of the game’s most fascinating, chaotic, and deeply fragile era. The Patch That Tried to Fix the Galaxy The Combat Upgrade was designed to overhaul Star Wars Galaxies’ complicated combat systems. Before it, SWG was famously strange: part sandbox MMO, part social simulator, part economy experiment, part cantina waiting room where someone was always dancing for…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002): The Game That Turned the Prequels Into a War
There is a point where the prequel era in Star Wars games stopped feeling like a collection of side attractions and started feeling like an actual era. Not just podracing. Not just one cool bounty hunter with a jetpack and several anger-management issues. Not just sleek starfighters gliding through Naboo skies. An actual war. That is where Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002) comes in. If Star Wars: Starfighter (2001) gave the prequels proper wings, and Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (2002) made them a little cooler, and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (2002) dragged the same era into the underworld and let Jango Fett behave like a licensed public menace, then The Clone Wars did something bigger. It widened the lens. It took the prequel era out of the cockpit, out of the alleyways, and out onto the battlefield. That makes it a natural stop in both our Complete List of…
Star Wars: Starfighter Finds Its Mandalorian Editor
Star Wars: Starfighter has quietly added another important piece behind the scenes — and this one comes with some very familiar Star Wars mileage. According to Adam Gerstel’s résumé at Independent Artist Group, Gerstel is listed as the editor of Star Wars: Starfighter, the upcoming Lucasfilm movie directed by Shawn Levy. Not the loudest piece of casting news in the galaxy, sure. But editing is where a Star Wars movie either flies like an X-wing or crashes into a committee meeting with expensive lighting. A Familiar Name From The Mandalorian Gerstel is not new to Star Wars. As noted by Bespin Bulletin’s report on Gerstel joining Starfighter, he previously edited The Mandalorian Season 2 episodes “Chapter 9: The Marshal” and “Chapter 16: The Rescue.” That is a pretty interesting pair of credits. “The Marshal” helped launch Season 2 with Cobb Vanth, Tusken Raiders, a krayt dragon, and the kind of…
Shakari Gives The Mandalorian & Grogu a Gangster Planet
Star Wars has always loved stealing from the best genres, giving them a blaster, and pretending everything was invented somewhere near the Outer Rim. Western? That became The Mandalorian. Samurai cinema? That has been in Star Wars’ bones since 1977. World War II dogfights? Just add X-wings. Now The Mandalorian & Grogu appears to be reaching for another very tasty influence: Prohibition-era gangster cinema. According to Polygon’s report on the new Star Wars planet Shakari, the upcoming movie will introduce a new world inspired by 1920s Chicago. Yes, Star Wars is getting a mobster planet. Somewhere, a Hutt is absolutely considering a pinstripe suit. Welcome to Shakari The new planet is called Shakari, and production designer Andrew L. Jones reportedly described it as being influenced by Prohibition-era Chicago. That is a wonderfully odd direction for a Star Wars location — and exactly the kind of thing the galaxy could use…
Star Wars: Galactic Racer Leak Points to an October 2026 Release
Star Wars: Galactic Racer have just let one of its biggest remaining secrets slip a little early. Several new images were briefly added to the game’s Steam store page, including fresh screenshots and marketing artwork that appeared to contain both release date and pre-order information. Those assets were later pulled, but not before we spotted the details. Because the live Steam page currently still lists the game with a broader 2026 window, the surfaced date still sits in leak territory rather than full official confirmation. The leaked date is October 6, 2026 The leak points to October 6, 2026 as the launch date for Star Wars: Galactic Racer, with the surfaced material also mentioning pre-order bonuses. While that date is not currently shown on the public Steam listing, the game’s digital storefront presence has clearly been expanding, and the broader rollout makes the timing believable. So no, Lucasfilm has not…
London Film and Comic Con 2026 Has Been Cancelled
A major UK fan event just dropped off the calendar. London Film and Comic Con 2026 has been cancelled, according to reporting from Fantha Tracks, which says there will be no 2026 edition of the long-running convention. The same outlet notes that guests who had already been announced for the 2026 show are now being shifted toward other Showmasters events instead. That is a pretty significant blow for convention fans, especially with LFCC usually sitting as one of the bigger annual genre gatherings in the UK. The cancellation is notable because other Showmasters events are still moving What makes this more interesting is that this does not look like a full stop for Showmasters activity in 2026. Fantha Tracks had already been covering London Comic Con Spring 2026 at Olympia earlier this year, including multiple guest announcements, and those posts explicitly referenced the return of that event after the cancellation…
Ralph Gunderman, Additional Voice Actor in SWTOR, Has Died at 77
There is some sad news for long-time Star Wars: The Old Republic fans and for people who have spent years listening to familiar voices across games, TV, and commercials. Ralph Gunderman, who provided additional voices in Star Wars: The Old Republic, has died at the age of 77. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Gunderman died on March 1 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York from complications of pneumonia, citing a family spokesperson. For SWTOR players, Gunderman was not one of the big headline names on the poster, but he was part of the wider voice fabric that helped make the galaxy feel lived in. His IMDb credits include Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011) among his game work, listing him under additional voices. That kind of credit can be easy to overlook, but in a game as massive and dialogue-heavy as SWTOR, those supporting performances matter a lot. And…
The Mandalorian & Grogu Is Now Tracking for a Potential $100M Opening
The box office story around The Mandalorian & Grogu just got a little more interesting. After some earlier softer-looking chatter around the film’s commercial prospects, Boxoffice Pro’s latest long-range forecast now says the movie could open in the $90 million to $100 million range domestically when it hits theaters on May 22, 2026. That would be a meaningful shift in tone around the film’s launch outlook, even if the upper end still would not put it near the biggest modern Star Wars openings. That is the key thing here: this is better, but it is not suddenly a “Star Wars is back to automatic $150M openings” story. Better than the gloomier narrative According to Boxoffice Pro’s long-range forecast, a $100 million opening would still rank as the lowest Star Wars debut since Solo: A Star Wars Story, which opened to $84.4 million in 2018. The same report notes that The…
Andor Season 2 Has Now Won a Peabody Award
Andor Season 2 is no longer just a nominee. It is now officially a Peabody Award winner, giving Lucasfilm’s most prestige-coded Star Wars series another serious trophy on the shelf. The 86th Peabody winners were announced by the Peabody Awards, and Andor (Season 2) appears among this year’s winners in Entertainment. That makes this a pretty big follow-up to the earlier nomination story. This is not Andor’s first Peabody win What makes the update even stronger is that this is not the first time Andor has pulled this off. The Peabody Awards previously honored the series at the 83rd Annual Peabody Awards for its first season, which means the show has now won Peabody recognition twice. Jedi News also noted that Season 1 had already won a Peabody, making this latest result feel less like a fluke and more like a pattern. And honestly, that feels extremely on-brand for Andor….
On This Day in 2019, Battlefront II Added Kashyyyk to Capital Supremacy
Seven years ago today, Star Wars Battlefront II got one of its most important Clone Wars-era updates. On April 24, 2019, DICE rolled out the Giants Above Kachirho Update, bringing Kashyyyk – Kachirho Beach into Capital Supremacy. The official patch notes listed the new map as the headline addition, while later summaries of the game’s update history also note that April 24 was the date Kashyyyk joined the mode. That may sound like a smaller content drop now, but at the time, it mattered a lot. Capital Supremacy was still the big new thing When Capital Supremacy launched in March 2019, it instantly felt like the mode Battlefront II had been missing. Bigger battles, AI soldiers, command posts, and ship assaults gave the game a more ambitious, large-scale Clone Wars identity. EA’s own follow-up coverage in spring 2019 made it clear that more locations were already planned, with Kashyyyk arriving…
On This Day in 2014, Star Wars Games Officially Became Legends
Twelve years ago, the Star Wars galaxy changed in a way that still shapes gaming conversations now. On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm published its now-famous announcement, “The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns a New Page,” confirming that the old Expanded Universe would be rebranded as Star Wars Legends. That move hit books and comics hardest in the public conversation, but it also changed the status of a huge chunk of Star Wars gaming history overnight. That meant a long list of beloved titles — from Knights of the Old Republic and Jedi Knight to The Force Unleashed, Republic Commando, and Dark Forces — were no longer part of the main official canon timeline. They were still Star Wars. Still playable. Still important. But now they lived under the Legends banner instead. The day old Star Wars games entered a different timeline For a lot of players, this was the…
Shawn Levy Says Star Wars: Starfighter Is Now in the Edit Room
Star Wars: Starfighter has moved into a very important phase of production: the part where the footage stops being potential and starts becoming an actual movie. Speaking to Variety at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, director Shawn Levy said he is currently editing the film, describing himself as being in the “beautiful sanctity of the edit room” while shaping the movie ahead of its 2027 release. As Levy put it, “We don’t come out until next year,” adding that he is in the “dark quiet of the edit room finding the best possible shape for the film.” The quote comes from Variety’s recent interview with Levy. That is not exactly a flashy reveal, but it is the kind of update that makes the project feel more real. Earlier official coverage from StarWars.com’s original announcement of Star Wars: Starfighter confirmed that the film stars Ryan Gosling, is directed by Shawn Levy, and…
The Mandalorian & Grogu May the 4th IMAX Previews Have Already Sold Out
That did not take long. The special-look IMAX fan events for The Mandalorian & Grogu on May the 4th are now officially sold out, according to Star Wars’ own social posts announcing the sellout. The events were set up as free advance screenings at select IMAX theaters around the world, giving fans an early look at more than 25 minutes of footage from the movie ahead of its full theatrical release. And honestly, that is a pretty strong signal. Fans moved fast on this one Lucasfilm and IMAX only just started pushing the event publicly, with trade coverage confirming that the May 4 screenings would include more than 25 minutes of exclusive footage, special fan giveaways, and a new poster at select locations. Boxoffice Pro reported the event on April 23, framing it as a global May the 4th fan push tied directly to the movie’s theatrical rollout. Now the…
Gina Carano Says She Has Spoken With Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni After Settlement
The Gina Carano story is not over yet, even if the legal fight is. After settling her lawsuit with Disney and Lucasfilm in August 2025, Carano says she has already spoken with both Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni. The detail comes from Carano’s appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show, later picked up by multiple outlets, where she described a post-settlement Zoom call with the two Mandalorian creatives as warm and surprisingly natural. According to Carano, the conversation did not sound tense at all. As quoted by CinemaBlend’s write-up of the interview, she said, “I’ve already had a conversation with Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau,” describing both as “really lovely,” and said the call happened after the lawsuit was settled. She also recalled Favreau joking, “So, where did we leave off?” That is the headline. The more complicated part is what it actually means. The lawsuit is over, but a return…
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (2002): The Jango Fett Game That Let Star Wars Get Dirty
There is a certain kind of Star Wars game that arrives in a clean, polished starfighter and asks you to save the day with elegance. Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is not that game. This one kicks the door open, lights the flamethrower, and asks whether you would like to spend the next several hours being Jango Fett at peak menace. And honestly, that was a pretty smart pitch in 2002. Released for PlayStation 2 in November 2002 and for GameCube in December 2002, Bounty Hunter came from LucasArts and put players in the boots of the galaxy’s most dangerous hired gun just as Attack of the Clones had made Jango one of the coolest bad ideas in the entire prequel era. That timing matters. We had just spent time in the skies with Star Wars: Starfighter (2001) and Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (2002), watching the prequel era expand through sleek…
The Acolyte Has Quietly Reappeared on Disney+’s Top 10
For a show that was supposed to be yesterday’s argument, The Acolyte has suddenly popped back into the conversation again. According to FlixPatrol’s Disney+ charts, The Acolyte re-entered the platform’s Top 10 TV Shows list in the No. 9 spot in the United States this week. That puts it back on the board well after its original release cycle, and well after most people assumed its streaming-chart life was over. That alone makes it a mildly surprising little Star Wars story. It is not topping the charts — but it is back To be clear, this is not The Acolyte suddenly becoming the biggest thing on Disney+. FlixPatrol’s current U.S. chart still has Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord near the top, along with titles like Daredevil: Born Again and several other Disney+ regulars. But The Acolyte showing up at No. 9 is still notable, because it means enough viewers…
Andor Season 2 Lands a Hugo Nomination — and It’s the Only TV Series in Its Category
Andor just picked up another prestige nomination, and this one comes with a fun little twist: it is the only television series nominated in the 2026 Hugo Awards’ Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form category. The official Hugo finalists list includes Andor (Season 2) alongside Frankenstein, KPop Demon Hunters, Mickey 17, Sinners, and Superman. That makes this nomination feel a bit more interesting than the average awards-season headline. The category is basically a movie field this year The Hugo Awards’ official finalists page lists six Long Form nominees, and Andor is the only TV entry among them. Everything else in the category is a film release, which gives Andor a slightly unusual place in the lineup. The official listing credits Season 2 to writers Tom Bissell, Dan Gilroy, Tony Gilroy, and Beau Willimon, and directors Ariel Kleiman, Janus Metz, and Alonso Ruizpalacios. That does not automatically make Andor the favorite, of…