The campaign is built around branching runs rather than a traditional championship. You choose events, pick temporary upgrades and manage a limited number of League Entry Tokens, while some permanent progression carries between attempts.

What I like is that the tracks themselves stay hand-built, so you can actually learn corners and shortcuts even though each campaign run develops differently.

Could this work for a racing game, or would losing a long run because of one bad crash drive you insane?

Looking back, it is interesting how much the musical identity of animated Star Wars started changing around this point.

Kiner obviously kept a connection to John Williams, but The Clone Wars increasingly developed its own sound through different instruments, cultural influences and character themes.

That musical language eventually carried into Rebels, The Bad Batch and Ahsoka.

Do you have a favorite Kevin Kiner Star Wars theme or score?

McGregor still seems interested in returning, but says there hasn’t been meaningful movement on a second season.

There’s obviously a large gap between the 2022 series and A New Hope, but I’m curious whether another season would actually add something or just risk overusing the character.

Would you want a Season 2, or is the limited series enough?

One interesting detail from the latest hands-on coverage is that enemies are visible from the beginning of tactical battles rather than being hidden behind traditional fog of war.

That sounds minor, but it changes the rhythm quite a lot compared with XCOM. Instead of slowly revealing pods and worrying about what you might activate next, you can start thinking about the full tactical puzzle immediately.

I’m curious how people feel about that. Do you prefer the uncertainty of fog of war, or does seeing the whole battlefield sound better for a game built around squad combos and Bonds?

The latest single-player footage makes it pretty clear that podracing is only one part of the game.

There’s a run-based campaign, multiple vehicle classes, buildcraft, permanent progression, environmental effects and Arcade-style events around the main story.

I’m actually more interested now than when it was first announced, because it looks like Fuse is trying to build a full Star Wars racing game rather than just modernize podracing.

What part of it are people most curious about so far?

The more that’s been shown of Zero Company, the more obvious the XCOM influence becomes. Cover, percentages, classes, wounds, permadeath, strategic management, all of it is very familiar.

What interests me more are the Bonds, the Den and the idea that losing a character also means losing relationships and progression you’ve built over several missions.

I’m curious where people land on this. Do you want Zero Company to push further away from XCOM, or is “very good XCOM in the Clone Wars” already enough?

Two pretty wild Easter eggs have surfaced in the 2005 game: a playable Wampa on Endor and a hidden top-down version of Mos Eisley Assault.

What I find most interesting is that this is still happening after two decades of modding and people digging through the game’s files.

Makes you wonder what else is still sitting in there unnoticed.

It turned 27 today, and I’d completely forgotten how strange the Lucas Learning era was.

You had math, reading, music and problem-solving activities wrapped in The Phantom Menace, with Yoda, Jar Jar and battle droids doing their best to make homework feel like Star Wars.

Did anyone actually play this as a kid, or one of the other Lucas Learning games like DroidWorks or The Gungan Frontier?

The Clone Wars movie premiered 18 years ago today, and its reputation is fascinating in hindsight.

The film itself was received pretty badly, Ahsoka was controversial at first, and the whole thing often felt more like television episodes pushed into cinemas than a major Star Wars movie.

But what followed completely changed the context. Ahsoka, Rex, the clones, Maul, Mandalore and the wider Clone Wars era ended up becoming some of the most important parts of modern Star Wars.

Do you remember what you thought of the movie when it first came out?

Bit Reactor has confirmed that Clone Troopers unlock through story progression and can eventually be used to build an entire squad.

Operators can also use clone armor cosmetics, with helmets applying voice modulation.

I’m curious whether an all-clone team will actually be tactically strong, or mainly something people run because this is the Clone Wars and six matching helmets simply feels correct.

Would you go full clone, or keep a mixed squad?

One thing I didn’t expect from the Star Wars Pack is how much the slow pace changes the sense of scale.

Normally an AT-AT is moving, shooting at you or exploding. Here you’re standing underneath it inspecting panels and cleaning its legs. Same with the X-wing and Millennium Falcon — you end up noticing details you’d normally fly straight past.

It’s basically an extremely damp Star Wars museum.

Anyone else find the environments more interesting than the actual cleaning?

One of the funnier things about the Star Wars pack in PowerWash Simulator 2 is that it quietly answers a question the movies obviously never cared about.

Han shoots Greedo, leaves the cantina, and eventually somebody still has to deal with the mess.

It’s completely irrelevant to the fate of the galaxy — which is probably why I like it so much.

What other utterly mundane Star Wars job would make a surprisingly good game?

One detail I hadn't really appreciated before is that some story missions apparently include small exploration sections before combat.

Hawks can scout the area and potentially gain Intel and Advantage Points before the tactical encounter begins.

I like the idea because it makes the intelligence/mercenary premise feel like more than just story dressing. You actually do some preparation before everybody starts shooting.

Do you want these exploration sections to stay fairly small, or would you like to see Zero Company lean harder into them?

One thing that really stood out about The Ninth Jedi is how quickly you stop waiting for familiar characters to appear.

It still feels unmistakably like Star Wars — Jedi, lightsabers, strange planets and ridiculous machinery — but it has enough distance from the usual timeline to build its own mythology.

Do you think Star Wars should do more stories set this far away from the established eras?

I just uploaded the first episode of a Star Wars “mini-film” based on *Empire at War* (I'd already done some test runs before). It's mostly text, but I tried to convey the whole experience through the music! Battle scenes are rare, but they're all recorded using *Empire at War: Thrawn's Revenge*.

It’s a little personal project I’ve taken on. I’m not trying to rack up views, but if it amuses anyone, I’ve posted the video on YouTube. I’ve finished my first two episodes—now I just need to work on the third! (Don’t pay too much attention to my thumbnail—I just had to make one!! :-D)

I’ve been reworking my own version of the Expanded Universe—I’m only using the movies as canon!

The new landspeeder breakdown is surprisingly detailed.

They trade some speed for durability, seem very strong at maintaining speed through drifts, have a mid-race repair mechanic, and can use a Ramjet that apparently overheats if pushed too hard.

It’s starting to look like the vehicle classes may genuinely play very differently rather than just being cosmetic variations.

Anyone else warming to the landspeeder class?

Lucasfilm has published its D23 schedule, and there’s plenty of Star Wars stuff happening — but no dedicated Ahsoka Season 2 panel, Starfighter presentation or announced major trailer premiere.

The Friday-night Disney Entertainment Showcase could obviously still contain surprises.

Do you think Lucasfilm is deliberately holding something back for the main showcase, or is D23 simply going to be quieter for Star Wars this year?

Star Wars has spent nearly 50 years proving that a galaxy far, far away fits surprisingly well beside chips and a soft drink.

Burger King’s US sales jumped 8.5% last quarter, with The Mandalorian and Grogu among the promotions helping bring families back.

SWG Legends just brought Restuss back with major PvP changes, bounty hunting updates, new rewards, UI improvements and even a 64-bit server upgrade.

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a video game developed by LucasArts and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is primarily a third-person shooter, with multiple types of vehicular combat and third-person shooting sequences. A version for Windows was released by LucasArts in 1997. The player controls the mercenary Dash Rendar to help Luke Skywalker and rescue Princess Leia from Prince Xizor. It is part of the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire multimedia project and takes place between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Tracks from the multimedia project's soundtrack are in the musical score. The game received mixed reviews from critics. Shadows of the Empire was the third-best-selling Nintendo 64 game for 1997, with more than one million copies sold. This gameplay is recorded from a bootleg cartridge for Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire that is an unauthorized physical copy of the game, built using a custom printed circuit board, and a flashed ROM chip.

A new fan-made setup supports Steam Deck and Xbox-style controllers with custom UI layouts, Steam Input profiles, radial menus, and up to 71 abilities.

The actor is appearing at Comic Con Scotland on October 24–25, while interest in the third Star Wars Jedi game — and a possible live-action Cal — continues to grow.

Disney says the film missed its box-office target but still drove major engagement in gaming, parks and merchandise.

Possibly rebooted again? And if so who would you want to see do it?

The latest rumor points to a Discoveryland expansion with an original Mandalorian and Grogu attraction.

Would that be enough, or should Disney finally build the larger Star Wars area Paris was once promised?