Star Wars

Screenshot: ValveWell, it took a little longer than I had expected, but finally, a new Half-Life game, Half-Life: Alyx, is coming out this week. For most things, I can control myself. I love Star Wars, but I know that a lot of Star Wars books and games are mediocre at…

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Some movies I bought on a wide variety of services but now have access through one central service.Screenshot: Movies AnywhereIf you are like me you are, perhaps, averse to buying digital movies. We don’t own the things we acquire digitally and there’s no telling when a service will shutter, like…

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, featuring Rey. Image: Disney/LucasfilmDo you need something to do while you’re staying home, which is easily the best thing you can do to stem the tide of covid-19, the sickness caused by the novel coronavirus, which is currently spreading widely throughout a large swath…

Bloodshot is a surprisingly capable action flick, starring Vin Diesel as the Valiant hero with director Dave Wilson at the helm. Wilson, who counts Bloodshot as his first full-length directorial debut. But it’s no surprise that Wilson is so good at making compelling action, considering his pedigree: before directing he…

Look, everyone has a breaking point. One Battlefront II player pushed an innocent NPC droid to this point after shocking it. So the droid pulled out a blaster and fought back.Droids in the Star Wars universe are often treated like crap. Many folks think of them as things, even though…

Last year was a big year for Star Wars fans, since not only did Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge open (at Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios) and The Mandalorian premiere on Disney+, but we also got the final Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker, released into theaters. Lucasfilm While the…

Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi find themselves locked into another bloody battle.Image: LucasfilmThere’s a moment in this week’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars where Mace Windu dramatically leaps into a facility packed with battle droids. His lightsaber raised, he offers an ultimatum: He has destroyed thousands of their ilk, so…

Huge 35,000-piece Lego Star Destroyer Assembling LEGO’s official Star Destroyer kit is no mean feat: it has nearly 4,800 pieces and retails for $700. But Matt Benner, aka TheBrickWiz, went 30,000 better, constructing a collossal Star Wars spaceship to put the fear of Vader into any rebel fool enough to…

Disney’s latest expansion brings the Marvel Cinematic Universe to life. Avengers Campus pulls Marvel characters from across time and space, and brings them to one central location in Disney’s California Adventure. Much like how Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge draws from the expansive Star Wars saga, Avengers Campus will dive into…