Today begins a fantastic partnership between Lucasarts and Nintendo as we are seeing the release of Super Star Wars, for the SNES, on the Virtual Console today (only 800pts). This will be the first of many Lucasarts games and related content to be released on the Wii with Super Empire Strikes back and Super Return of the Jedi to be released in upcoming weeks. Along with the game releases, Nintendo and Lucasarts have teamed up for a Star WarsMii creation contest on the “Check Mii Out” channel and there will be Star Wars themed questions on the “Everybody Votes” channel. Now Lucasarts has teased that we will see re-releases of many more classic games through the WiiWare service, they just aren’t giving us the full details yet. Here’s hope that we will get Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter and many more old school games.
Getting drunk at Mos Eisley Cantina and smoking with R2-D2, one can only dream. Take a look at two great PSAs below and check Here to see more old commercials for toys, cereal and of course…video games.
Well at least that is what we could have gotten if Free Radical hadn’t closed up shop. Yes, on top of losing the fantastic Timesplitters series (for now) we also lost the development team working on the new Lucas Arts game, Star Wars: Battlefront III. Our good friends at Kotaku have a video that is rumored to be footage from the game. Watching the video (see below as well) I didn’t really see any Sith Kenobi but based off of seeing images and characters from all six films, it wouldn’t surprise me if there was some sort of Elseworlds story/setting out there as well. Either way, this is just another fantastic game lost to closing of great studios. Hopefully this will be picked up and released by some other studio, which I’m pretty sure it will. For bigger pics and full concept art on evil Kenobi check out Kotaku
Well this little gem comes from Gizmodo and represents where all those cool (and not so cool) planets from the Star Wars universe actually are in their galaxy. It’s fun to note that Tatooine is NOT the farthest from the galaxy core like one Luke Skywalker proclaimed. Click on the above image to see a very large version of this so you can spend the rest of the day on Wikipedia looking up fake planets (like Pluto!).
Who is ready to get hurt on your own personal Millenium Falcon? Well now we can all enjoy the fun that sledding has to offer while being as nerdy as possible. Available through Amazon you can have your own personal Millenium Falcon for the holiday season. Priced at $34, it is kinda expensive for basically a saucer sled but someone needs to put Lucas’ kids through college so it might as well be us. If anyone actually buys this, let us know how it turns out.
Max recently learned about BringIt. A new online community where gamers can play…and bet, on video games. Games include Call of Duty 4, EA Sports titles, and Guitar Hero: World Tour. Guitar Hero for money? Sweet Jesus no! This is not what I need right now. According to the press release, “Players can ‘BringIt’ for as little as $1 or up to as much as $100,000.” $100,000 dollars? On a video game? Fuck yeah!
For more on Max’s nerd-dom and gambling habits fusing in to an unstoppable hurricane of unfettered addiction, please see the Star Wars Slot Machine.
Through an official announcement from Lucasarts this morning, Star Wars: The ForceUnleashed will have a single level demo available this thursday (8/21) on PSN and XBLA. This is one of the most anticiapted games for me and many others this year and I am quite excited for this demo. The Apprentice on Soul Calibur 4 is fantastic and I can’t wait to see what he can do in this game.
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