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Season Four Of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Begins Online In Clone Wars Adventures

11:16PM July 15, 2011 | Mike Fahey

While season four of the popular Cartoon Network series Star Wars: The Clone Wars officially kicks off this Australian spring, players of Sony Online Entertainment’s free-to-play online game Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures will be able to play through an epic storyline leading directly to the first episode’s opening act. More »


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Kinect Star Wars Adds A Sense Of Misplaced Gravitas To Jedi Fights

4:00AM June 15, 2011 | Brian Crecente

I didn’t give Brooks Brown, Lucast Arts community manager, much time to dig into the Kinect-enabled Star Wars game before I began peppering him with questions. More »


Nintendo

Even A LEGO Star Wars Game Needs Voice Actors

9:20AM January 28, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Just because none of the characters in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars actually talk doesn’t mean they don’t employ high calibre voice talent. They just grunt a lot. More »


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The Old Republic Wordier Than Entire Run Of The Sopranoes

11:20AM June 4, 2009 | Brian Crecente

Still-in-development massively multiplayer online title Star Wars The Old Republic comes packed with voice acting, lots of voice acting. More »


In Real Life

Holiday Greetings From Penny Arcade, Nintendo, Blizzard and Others

3:00AM January 6, 2009 | Brian Crecente

I was out of town for the two weeks surrounding Christmas so despite my best efforts, I didn’t post all of the gaming greeting cards I received over the holidays.

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News

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings Rated for Portables

10:40PM August 28, 2008 | Brian Ashcraft

European video game content rater PEGI has just, well, rated what looks like a new Indiana Jones game for the DS and PSP. With the questionable title Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (woah!), the title is 16 and up, and Activision is publishing. We don’t have any other information about it other than that, but game site Siliconera wonders if this Staff of Kings game is that other “next-gen” Indiana Jones title that was shown a few years back — and then disappeared into the ether.

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings [PEGI via Siliconera]

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Hands-On The Force Unleashed Impressions

3:21AM July 8, 2008 | Brian Crecente

Going in to my time with Star Wars The Force Unleashed, I figured the best the game could do was recapture the fun of playing Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II on a console.

While The Force Unleashed pushes the graphics and, to some degree, the AI, forward, the experience of playing Unleashed was, as I had hoped, fairly similar to the hours of time I sank into Dark Forces II.

The game was enjoyable, at times a blast to play, but nothing that is going to shake the rock solid formula crafted by Dark Forces II.

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