There seems to be no limit to what Star Wars creator George Lucas will let his characters appear in these days, so long as you’ve got the monies to make it happen. Case in point: this new Vodafone ad, starring none other than Yoda. Read more
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Slot car racing institution Scalextric has finally partnered with Star Wars for a new range of tracks and models so good that it beggars belief to think that’s it not been done before. Read more
Prepare to have your inner Jedi blown. EA has announced plans to avoid potential server capacity issues for the upcoming launch of its MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Launch quantities of both the retail and digital versions of the game will be limited to “ensure players have a smooth and high quality game experience”.
Grab a PC and a copy of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and you can get some new life out of the four-year-old FPS. Black Monkeys have completed their two-and-a-half year project to create a Star Wars mod for the game and it’s available to grab now for free.
You can play either as a Imperial stormtrooper or a rebel grunt with Star Wars: Galactic Warfare dropping you in familiar settings including Mos Eisley and Tatooine. If we weren’t working, we’d be playing already. You can grab the mod from the link below and get hints on how to install in this video guide.
Take a peek at Star Wars: Galactic Warfare in action after the jump…
Most Star Wars fans agree that George Lucas really needs a few new ideas, rather than constantly tweaking the films they love in unnecessary ways. He really needs to watch this robot lightsaber duel.
We’d love to see some more evil droids battling some Jedi bots but in the meantime, Yakaskawa, maker of Motoman industrial robots, has equipped them with lightsabers and set them off fighting at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Shanghai. It’s oddly beautiful…
Apple has snapped up Tomlinson Holman, the inventor of THX, to head up its audio projects. The news was revealed by podcasting king and “president of the Internet” Leo Laporte who tweeted:
“I have it on good authority that Tomlinson Holman (of THX fame) is joining Apple to run audio. Major upgrade.“ Read on for the lowdown on Holman…
If you were planning on getting sued by Star Wars boss man George Lucas and Steve Jobs, creating this Steve Jobs in Carbonite iPhone case would basically be the perfect way of doing it.
That said, I desperately want one before the hordes of lawyers descend on the creator and atomise him into 10bn particles of legally discombobulated matter. Get Steve-Jobs-doing-Han-Solo on the back of your iPhone while you still can from the link below. Would it be too much to wish for an iPad 2 case with Steve Wozniak as a wookie?
It’s the year of the iPad 2 according to Apple, but if you ask us, we’d say that right now it’s the morning chock a block with news from every gadget category and realm. See it all rounded up in one spot here in the lunchtime lowdown.