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.
Tagged ‘star wars’
The Star Wars 3D rollout is starting in February 2012. Hell yeah! But…the first film to get the 3D treatment will be The Phantom Menace. Boo! Lucas has announced that the whole saga will be release in order which means the first good Star Wars 3D film probably won’t arrive until 2015. The question is, how much more irritating will Jah Jah Binks be in 3D? We’d say considerably.
Out February 2012 | £TBC | Star Wars
Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars is the latest in an enjoyable line of Lego-based Star Wars video game mash-ups. Developer Traveller’s Tales will have you believe it’s the biggest and best Lego Star Wars game yet, delivering new features including a picture-in-picture play mechanic, better graphics and proper Star Wars scale settings. Ahead of its 25 March release we sat down to give it a go, in our Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars preview.
Listen up, Star Wars fans, good news from CES. Darth Vader himself is marching in to CES 2011 with what StarWars.com is promising is “a most impressive announcement”. Given the tech spin of CES, we expect it to be something on the Star Wars Blu-Ray release or possibly Star Wars 3D coming to a cinema near you with the profits headed for George Lucas’ Deathstar-size wallet. Darth Vader’s news will be out later today and our CES 2011 crack squad will be there to bring it to you via hyperspace or…you know…this website.
Out TBC | £TBC | Star Wars
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 DLC is shaping up quite nicely. The video after the break shows the upcoming Endor mission which is one of the darkest instalments yet. The new Force Unleashed 2 DLC mission lets you slaughter Ewoks, battle Princess Leia in a lightsaber duel and, most shockingly, butcher Chewbacca and hack down Han Solo…
The multi-player first-person shooter, Star Wars: Imperial Academy, is now alive and kicking in the Apple App Store. Without spending a penny, you can get your game on with the latest iPhone Star Wars saga thanks to the latest release by ngmoco. If you were a fan of Eliminate Pro, Star Wars: Imperial Academy should be at the top of your to do list.
PlayStation Move might be the ideal candidate when it comes to developing the perfect lightsaber game Star Wars have been waiting for, but this Microsoft Kinect hack shows that Xbox 360 players don’t have to miss out on a tactile sabre experience. Want to see how Kinect can transform a wooden stick into a lightsaber? Check it out in our video of the week.
The last best iPhone apps of the week was rather heavy on serious, productive apps but we in App Review Towers like to do fun too, honest. This week’s Best iPhone apps is almost entirely about games, with augmented reality Star Wars, id Software pushing iPhone graphics to the limits and the most eccentric Japanese game we have seen in ages. Head through for the Best iPhone apps game fest, plus Peep Show gets appy and Posterous makes us return to the craft of enjoyably super-speedy blogging…
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