Tag: Star Wars
News Star Wars Outlaws Delivers Deep Dive into Its Vast PS5 Open World
Fewer icons, more discovery
The marketing behind Star Wars Outlaws is leaning hard into the fact it is the "first" open world Star Wars game, despite the fact Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was basically that anyway. Still, the experience from The Division 2 developer Massive Entertainment is doing it all seamlessly, which is probably where it would tell...
News PS5 Open Worlder Star Wars Outlaws Goes Gold Ahead of August Release
Work on 1.0 version now complete
Star Wars Outlaws has gone gold almost two months ahead of its PS5 release date of 30th August 2024, Ubisoft today confirmed. This means work on the 1.0 version of the open world title is now complete and can be pressed to physical discs while Massive Entertainment prepares a day one patch and post-launch DLC. The...
News Beloved PS2 Action Shooter Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Is Being Remastered on PS5, PS4
Let the hunt begin
Just announced for both PS5 and PS4, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is being revived. The original game released for PS2 and Nintendo GameCube all the way back in 2002, but this enhanced edition will boast upgraded graphics and DualSense functionality on Sony's current-gen console. Playing as fan favourite mercenary Jango Fett, Star...
News Star Wars Outlaws Has a Meaty 30-Hour Main Story
Double that for 100%
Being an open world game, we fully expected Star Wars Outlaws to boast a lengthy runtime, and that's been pretty much confirmed. In an interview with VGC, creative director Julian Gerighty reveals that the main story will take you roughly 25-30 hours to complete. Meanwhile, if you're looking to 100% Kay Vess' adventure, you can...
News Criticised Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Demo Merely an 'Amuse-Bouche' of the Full Experience
"You have to make a lot of choices"
Star Wars Outlaws, despite looking absolutely fantastic during Ubisoft’s livestream earlier this week, has been criticised for feeling a bit dated. One preview compared the release unfavourably to Uncharted: Golden Abyss, the PS Vita exclusive spin-
Nyxed
We absolutely loved 2011’s launch game Uncharted: Golden Abyss on PS Vita, but it’s not necessarily a release you’d want your tentpole AAA title to be compared to. In the aftermath of last night’s Ubisoft Forward livestream, where Star Wars Outlaws looked largely outstanding in our opinion, media has been publishing impressions – and...
News Star Wars Outlaws Demos Out of This Galaxy PS5 Gameplay
The Empire strikes back
In many ways, Star Wars Outlaws is another Ubisoft game, with many of the same systems and mechanics you’ll already be familiar with – but that doesn’t mean it’s not impressive. This game appears to have some of the most densely populated, gorgeously detailed sandbox environments we’ve seen on PS5 to date – and if...
News Star Wars Costumes Are Now Available in Fall Guys for a Limited Time
May the 7th be with you
Star Wars Day (May the 4th) has now been and gone, but the sci-fi fun isn't over just yet. In what's certainly one of its biggest collabs yet, Fall Guys is crossing paths with the ever-popular movie franchise, bringing some new costumes and other cosmetics from a galaxy far, far away. These new items are now available in the...
News The Star Wars Force Will Be Strong with Fortnite This May 4th
When universes collide
Star Wars and Fortnite have always enjoyed a fruitful partnership, but now Disney’s put its sizeable bank balance behind Epic Games, there was always the possibility of a greater collaboration. And after weeks of teasing, that’s exactly what’s been announced. Beginning from 3rd May, the eve of Star Wars Day, you can...
News Star Wars Outlaws Will Feature Galaxy's Most Infamous Card Game
"You have an awful Sabacc face"
Star Wars Outlaws has been in the headlines recently for some less-than-ideal reasons. Still, one thing we are genuinely looking forward to is the inclusion of Sabacc, the blackjack/poker hybrid popular among rogues like Han Solo and Lando Calrissian. Strangely, despite the rules being first revealed in 1989, its...
News Ubisoft Responds to Star Wars Outlaws Exclusive Jabba the Hutt Boondoggle
This deal is getting worse all the time
Since unveiling the eye-watering $130 Ultimate Edition of Star Wars Outlaws last week, Ubisoft has been under fire from fans furious a full-priced single-player game would even warrant a Season Pass in the first place. Worse, acquiring the Season Pass is the only way to "play the exclusive Jabba's Gambit...
News $130 Version of Star Wars Outlaws Under Fire as Ubisoft Prices Increase
Battle Pass vs. Season Pass confusion
Ubisoft revealed yesterday that Star Wars Outlaws will launch for PS5 on 30th August 2024, but what's got its potential community talking just as much is the eye-opening price of its Ultimate Edition. Up for pre-order now on the PS Store, the publisher has slapped a £120 / $130 price point on the most expensive...
News Star Wars Outlaws to Feature Emilia Clarke's Solo Character, Lady Qi'ra
Sadly, Clarke will not be reprising the role
Ubisoft's upcoming Star Wars Outlaws connects to the larger galaxy far, far away in some intriguing ways, one in particular. Remember Emilia Clarke's enigmatic character Qi'ra in the standalone Solo: A Star Wars Story? Considering how that movie ended, it should come as little surprise that the character...
News Two Star Wars Outlaws Expansions Will Arrive After PS5 Launch
Narrative-focused DLC after release
Star Wars Outlaws releases for PS5 on 30th August 2024, but post-launch support will try to keep you coming back for more as Ubisoft has confirmed the title will receive two expansions after release. All we know for now is the two pieces of DLC will have a narrative focus, but you can get them both in a season...
News New Star Wars Outlaws Trailer Confirms August PS5 Release Date
Fresh story footage revealed
Update: Ubisoft has now confirmed Star Wars Outlaws will launch for PS5 on 30th August 2024 as part of a new story trailer you can watch above. Original story: Ubisoft is planning on dropping a fresh story trailer for Star Wars Outlaws in a few hours, but the cat's already out of the bag by way of a Japanese premiere...
News Star Wars Outlaws Schedules a Story Trailer for Tuesday
Next look at one of 2024's hottest games
Ubisoft has confirmed it'll be dropping a Star Wars Outlaws story trailer next week on Tuesday, 9th April 2024. Debuting at 5pm BST / 9am PT / 12pm ET, footage will focus on the narrative of the PS5 title, which is set in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. A new key art featuring new...
News Aspyr Issues Apology for Atrocious Star Wars: Battlefront Classic PS5, PS4 Launch
Servers under heavy strain at launch
Update: Here we are, then: the inevitable apology tour. Aspyr has issued an update on its disastrous Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection launch, which can be purchased full-price on PS5 and PS4 right now. "At launch, we experienced critical errors with our network infrastructure," a statement reads. "The...
News Star Wars Battlefront Pack Lights Up PS Store Pre-Order Charts
Competing with FF7 Rebirth, Elden Ring DLC
With Final Fantasy VII Rebirth right around the corner, you would likely assume the Square Enix sequel to be dominating the pre-order charts found on Sony's own PS Store. However, for roughly a week now, this hasn't actually been the case. Ever since the confirmation of the PS5, PS4 Star Wars Battlefront...
News The Best Star Wars Battlefront Games Are Coming to PS5, PS4
Not in a galaxy far, far away either
Wow, out of nowhere! The Star Wars Battlefront games are not necessarily renowned for their contemporary incarnations, but their original PS2 outings instead. And now they’re making a comeback, with full online multiplayer for up to 64-players. Due out on 14th March for PS5 and PS4, the Star Wars Battlefront...
News Star Wars Jedi Star Cameron Monaghan Would Reprise Role in Live-Action, Provided It's 'Right'
Cal doesn't do cameos
Respawn's Star Wars Jedi series has found a welcome home with players, and protagonist Cal Kestis' journey of survival has been a compelling one. Actor Cameron Monaghan, who portrays Kestis in Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor, says he'd be up for portraying the character in live-action. Still, the circumstances "would...
News Respawn Reportedly Developing First-Person, Bounty-Hunting Mandalorian Game
"You can run, but you'll only die tired"
Respawn Entertainment, the developer behind the Star Wars Jedi series and Apex Legends, seems to be in the early stages of developing a first-person Mandalorian game. Sadly, it appears to be set during an earlier, pre-Grogu timeframe, but the prospect of hunting bounties for the Galactic Empire seems like a...
News Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's Stellar PS5 Soundtrack Secures Grammy
After apparent TGA snubbing
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has been awarded a Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media, a rare nod from the more established mainstream award industry. Jedi: Survivor beat out the likes of God of War Ragnarok, Hogwarts Legacy, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Stray Gods: The Roleplaying...
News Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Sounding Like the Scoundrel Simulator We Always Wanted
Honour among thieves
Star Wars Outlaws is one of the more intriguing pieces of media set in that galaxy far, far, away, seemingly designed to draw in lapsed fans of a particular vintage like ourselves. It takes place in the fertile space between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, concerned with the seedier, less sterile corners of the...
News Disney May Have Accidentally Outed Star Wars Outlaws' PS5 Release Window
But it was quick to make an edit
We already knew that Ubisoft was plotting a 2024 launch for its open world sci-fi shooter Star Wars Outlaws, but a since-edited post on a Disney Parks blog may have nailed down more precisely when we can expect to visit a galaxy far, far away. Multiple outlets, including IGN, noticed the original blurb referenced a...
News Disney Says There's 'Still a Lot of Demand' for Knights of the Old Republic Remake
Put us out of our misery
The fate of the Knights of the Old Republic Remake remains in flux, much like the Force itself, and conflicting reports from trusted sources have recently left us contemplating a turn to the dark side. Now, a Disney executive has thrown further fuel on the flames. Speaking to Axios, Disney head of gaming Sean Shoptaw was...
News PS Plus Premium Will Add PS1's Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Next
Feel the force
The next PS1 title to be ported to PS5 and PS4 as part of Sony’s emulation effort looks likely to be Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, as Disney continues its unprecedented support for the programme. So far, the movie and amusement park giant has pledged several of its classic titles to Sony’s PS Plus Premium tier, and it...
News Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic PS5 Remake Reportedly Not Dead, Actually
Schreier knowledge
Earlier this week, word arrived from Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake isn't being worked on in any capacity. However, there's now conflicting information, this time courtesy of Bloomberg's Jason Schreier. According to the reporter, he's heard from two sources at Saber Interactive that...
News Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake Reportedly Deader than Alderaan
Too soon?
Hopes of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake returning balance to the Force have been thoroughly dashed, with Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grub reporting that "full stop, this game is not being worked on in any way at any studio." Grub's comments come in response to those of Embracer Group boss Lars Wingford, who refused to...
News Stunning PS5 Open Worlder Star Wars Outlaws Has Seemingly Been Delayed
Pushed beyond March 2024
It wowed a lot of people with its full reveal back in June, but it sounds like Star Wars Outlaws won't be making the jump to PS5 in early 2024 after all. To be clear, the open world title was never given a firm release date, but publisher Ubisoft had it pencilled in for this fiscal year. In other words, it was targeting —...
News PS1 FPS Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster Lands on PS5, PS4 in February
29 years after the original
Originally targeting a 2023 release date, Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster is now on course for a PS5 and PS4 launch on the 28th February, 2024. If you're not sure what Dark Forces even is, it's a traditional DOOM-esque first-person shooter that originated on the MS-DOS in 1995, and was ported to the PS1 a year later. The...
News PS5's Knights of the Old Republic Remake Is Being Wiped from the Internet
Update: Sony says it's due to music licensing
Update: Sony says the reason the Knights of the Old Republic trailers are being removed from its YouTube and social media accounts is due to music licenses expiring. In a statement to IGN, the organisation said: “As part of normal business, we delist assets with licensed music when the licenses...
News Cal Kestis Actor Cameron Monaghan Confirms Star Wars Jedi 3 Is Coming
Jedi mind tricks
Cameron Monaghan, the actor behind Cal Kestis, the protagonist of both Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, has confirmed that a third game is currently in the works. VGC reports that during a panel at Ocala Comic Con, Monaghan said: "We’re working on a third, and we’re in the process of doing that ri
News Star Wars Jedi Series Director Stig Asmussen Is Leaving Respawn for Galaxies Unknown
Return of the Jedi?
Stig Asmussen, director of both 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and this year's Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Respawn Entertainment for parts unknown. Asmussen had previously stated he envisioned a trilogy for protagonist Cal Kestis, but it seems that particular story will need to be helmed by another. Word comes to us by
News Star Wars Jedi: Survivor PS5 Update Available Now, Here Are the Patch Notes
Performance improved, bugs squished
We had a great time with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor when it arrived earlier this year, but let's be honest, the technical performance wasn't great. The game's performance mode, which targeted 60 frames-per-second at a reduced resolution, was inconsistent, and it even struggled to keep it locked to 30 if you used the...
News PS1 FPS Star Wars: Dark Forces Returns on PS5, PS4 in 2023
Classic getting resurrected
The classic PS1 first-person shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces is being resurrected on the PS5 and PS4 – almost 30 years after it first released. The game – which originally launched on MS-DOS – is being remastered by Nightdive Studios, which is using its proprietary KEX Engine to rebuild the original in 4K resolution...
News Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Is Being Ported Backwards to Decade-Old PS4
In "early stages" of development
In a move that seems a bit strange, EA will be bringing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to last-gen consoles at some point in the future. The publisher dropped this bombshell during its latest business briefing, stating that the port is in the "early stages" of development. Okay then. Survivor released for the PS5 earlier...
News Latest Star Wars Jedi: Survivor PS5 Patch Is a Small One, More Updates Planned
Patch 6.5 available to download now
Respawn Entertainment has today deployed an update that builds upon the sixth post-launch patch for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on PS5, bringing the game up to version number 1.000.0008. The update is available to download now, weighing in at 1.012GB and is labelled patch 6.5 on the official Twitter account. "While...
News Despite Facing Huge Hurdles, Star Wars' PS5 KOTOR Remake Is Still in Development
Star Forge-ing onwards
It looks like that troubled Knights of the Old Republic remake for PS5 is still in development, for the time being, at least. That's according to the latest Embracer Group financial report, which lists the title in its announced games section. This is something of a ray of hope for the title; when asked as
News No Comment on Troubled PS5 Console Exclusive Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
"My favourite question"
If you can cast your mind back to the last time Sony hosted a livestream – and, trust us, we know that was eons ago – you may recall that it started out with confirmation of a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake, which was slated to launch as a console exclusive for PS5. Since then, the project has been hit by a...
News PS5 Performance Patch for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Out Now
Get all the patch notes here
Respawn Entertainment has today deployed a new Star Wars Jedi: Survivor patch that aims to improve performance on PS5. It's available to download now, with the update weighing in at 1.081GB, updating the game to version 1.0000.005. While the previous update was all about bug fixing, today's very much targets...
News New Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Patch Is Out Now, Focuses on Bug Fixes
Get all the patch notes here
Update: The latest Star Wars Jedi: Survivor patch on PS5 is available to download now, updating the game to version number 1.000.004. It's 1.119GB in size, and you can get all the patch notes below. Original story: A second big Star Wars Jedi: Survivor patch will go live on PS5 later today, EA has revealed. This latest...
News Game-Breaking Bug Detected in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, But a Fix Is En Route
Cal, you will be tested
A game-breaking bug has been identified in the recently released Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which can prevent players from completing the game under some admittedly fairly specific circumstances. Players can submit bug reports for the game over on EA's forums, with a particularly nasty one popping up repeatedly, affecting...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Star Wars Jedi: Survivor?
Cal it
It's been a week since the release of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on PS5. The action adventure certainly seems to have struck a chord with gamers in general, although there is ongoing debate regarding the game's technical state, which is being improved bit by bit via updates. There's something great at Survivor's core, though. We gave it an...
News PS Stars Adds Legendary BD-1 to Celebrate Star Wars Day
And it's easy to unlock
PS Stars has, to our knowledge, received its first Legendary reward in the form of BD-1. Part of a special Star Wars Day campaign, you’ll have until 1st July, 2023 to boot up Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on your PS5 to earn the digital collectible. Obviously, you can’t display these virtual trinkets on your new-gen console...
News Star Wars Jedi: Survivor PS5 Patch Out Now, Promises Improved Performance and Crash Fixes
The next step
Update: The latest patch for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is now live on PS5, weighing in at a very reasonable 1.17GB. As detailed in the original article below, the focus of the update is to improve the game's general performance, and fix several crashing issues. Hopefully it's another step in the right direction for Respawn's adventure...
News Rocket League Travels to a Galaxy Far, Far Away This Star Wars Day
Droid-themed cosmetics coming soon
4th May — or May the fourth, to get in the spirit of things — is a day that celebrates all things Star Wars every year. Fans of the ever-popular sci-fi universe can always look forward to this day, which often brings with it some exciting announcements. With Star Wars Jedi: Survivor recently bringing the hype...
Poll Are You Playing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor?
[Lightsaber noises]
Another of 2023's blockbuster games has just landed on PS5. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is out now on Sony's current-gen console, and it's already attracted some very, very positive reviews. The direct sequel to 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, players once again find themselves in the well-worn boots of Cal Kestis, a Jedi, er,...
Random Mark Hamill Instructs Padawan Cameron Monaghan in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Skit
Alway's two, there are. A Master, and an apprentice
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is out today, and in a fun promotional spot, Jedi Master Mark Hamill, AKA Luke Skywalker, has some pointers for relative newcomer Cameron Monaghan who reprises his role as one-time padawan protagonist Cal Kestis in the game. Hammil laments the fact that he was never given...
News Star Wars Jedi: Survivor PS5 Bugs Will Be Squashed Across Weeks of Patches
"For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is out today, and we loved it. We already brought you word of the most essential patch of the year (which should be applied automatically, so don't worry), and now we have some more hot content updates for you to look forward to. The team at Respawn has committed to...
News Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Has 2023's Most Essential PS5 Patch (So Far)
Check for version 1.02 or better
Few PS5 updates released this year will prove more important than patch 1.02 for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Out now on Sony servers — so you needn't worry if you are picking the game up this Friday — it's turned what was a great game with numerous technical flaws into a simply excellent one. Before you begin...
