Tag: star wars
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Four Minute Thoughts – Star Wars: Battlefront Beta
Ahead of its imminent European launch, Scott shares his Four Minute Thoughts on the Star Wars: Battlefront Beta.
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Star Wars in Pixels: Republic Commando
Sean looks back at the tactical first person shooter, Star Wars: Republic Commando, in the first instalment of Star Wars in Pixels.
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EA Claims No Star Wars Movie Games
Movie to game adaptations have a bad reputation. Granted they’re never likely to be great (Spider-Man 2 being a glorious exception), but they’re can often be average and serviceable. Regardless, they tend to sell a lot. Recently, however, movie games seem to have been relegated to smartphones, and more often than not are free to…
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The Ready Up Podcast – Season 2, Episode 18 – “Ginxed!”
It’s the return of Laura. The Welsh one is back and is joined, alongside Tony, by ‘Young’ Scott and Lucy James, host of “The Blurb” on Ginx TV.
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Raven Software releases Jedi Knight 2 source code into the wild
LucasArts may be dead but one of their most loved franchises may well get to live on in the work of the modding community. That’s right, developer Raven Software have released the source code for Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast and the sequel Jedi Academy onto the webbernets for avid coders and other creative types…
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A Weekend with The Old Republic – Part 2
Please note: this blog post contains minor gameplay and story spoilers for the first 20 levels of The Old Republic. In my last blog, I spoke of the story virtues of Star Wars: The Old Republic. But how does the game play? It would be sad for me to fall back on saying “Like World…
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A Weekend with The Old Republic – Part 1
Please note: this blog post contains minor gameplay and story spoilers for the first 20 levels of The Old Republic. My subscription for Star Wars: The Old Republic was pretty much guaranteed when, after my character greeted his Jedi Master during the interactive opening cinematic, I realised he was voiced by David Hayter, the voice…
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Critical Mess 1 of 3: Don’t Forget The Core, Gamers
(Or: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Ask if Unsure”) Hello and welcome to this, the first in a trilogy of blogs I’m calling ‘Critical Mess’. Here, I’ll be looking at things that I think people interested in playing and/or making videogames should know – since I’m passionate about both of these…