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Fantasy Flight Games released Star Wars: Legion about a year ago, and despite its overall entertainment value, the lack of troop variety hobbled the game early on. That's not the case any longer, with plenty of troop option for both rebel and Imperial players to choose from. Now, something familiar, yet completely different has been released, and[...]

In Solo: A Star Wars Story, Han Solo was given a first love, and in Marvel Comics' Star War series, he was given a first wife So it's about time Princess Leia gets her romantic backstory filled out After all, her first makeout session couldn't have been with her brother. Thankfully, Line Manga has announced a[...]

Fantasy Flight Games is billing Allies and Adversaries as "The Essential Collection of Heroes and Villains" for their Star Wars role playing game system. //Credit: Fantasy Flight Games I've spent a few hours with this book, and I can honestly say it delivers on that claim in a major way I'm going to try not to gush[...]

Details began popping up like womprats a few months ago about Allies and Adversaries, the first major codex for monsters and non-player characters for Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars RPG system. //Credit: Fantasy Flight Games The first two NPCs announced for Allies and Adversaries were Jyn Erso and Empreror Palpatine, which is just the tip of the[...]

Leave it to Kevin Smith to make the declaration that the next Star Wars film may possibly dive into "hokey religions" based on the title- Rise of the Skywalker The filmmaker and resident fanboy tackled the topic on the most recent episode of his Hollywood Babble On podcast with co-host Ralph Garman. Kevin SmithPhoto by Sterling Munksgard / Shutterstock.com While speaking[...]

We're not done with Star Wars news coming from Celebration in Chicago, as there are a few little details that need a spotlight Like THIS interview with LucasFilm President Kathleen Kennedy from MTVNews, which touches on two big things. Namely, the return of Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine during the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker teaser[...]

Star Wars Celebration Chicago has just wrapped up, and the event has revealed they will be headed back to Anaheim in 2020. No dates have been revealed yet, but chances are it'll be during the same early to mid April like previous Celebrations. We can be reasonably sure it WON'T be the weekend of April 10th-12th 2020[...]

We're coming up on the last day of Star Wars Celebration Chicago and that means we have one more piece of media that needs to get covered; Star Wars Resistance We've had our lovely writer Erin Wilgem did a lovely job of reviewing and recapping the first season While the show got off to kind[...]

There was a new project announced during Star Wars Celebration from Charles Soule (author of Darth Vader comics), Justine Ireland (author of the middle-grade novel Lando's Luck: A Star Wars Story), Claudia Gray (author of YA novel Star Wars: Lost Stars), Cavan Scott (writer of IDW's Star Wars Adventures comics and young reader books Star[...]

In October of 2017, EA shut down production on a Star Wars game being developed by Amy Hennig's studio Visceral At the time, the reasoning for the shutdown of Visceral's project was to make it a "broader" experience rather than focus on a single-player campaign. While we've learned much about Hennig's unfinished project since it got binned, the[...]

It's the last day of Star Wars Celebration Chicago and we are live at the 20th anniversary of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace panel This is a movie that got a lot of flack of the time and it's going to be interesting to see how it is received in a setting with people who[...]

If there was a sore spot with the Star Wars fandom [before the The Last Jedi broke a few brains] it was that The Clones Wars got canceled too soon It was one of the animation things that everyone agreed on and much like Young Justice, the other canceled before its show, came back on[...]

That said, WHAT A TRAILER, GUYS! During Sunday at Star Wars Celebration, Dave Filoni and Sam Witwer, Ashley Eckstein, and Dee Bradley Baker joined Warwick Davis on the main stage to discuss the return of animated Star Wars series The Clone Wars, which was announced as returning for a 7th season back at San Diego Comic Con 2018. What we know now[...]

With excitement high after the trailer for the upcoming Star Wars game Jedi: Fallen Order was revealed at Star Wars Celebration last weekend, Dark Horse Comics has announced plans to publish an art book companion for the game Featuring concept art of characters, equipment, and locales, as well as artists' commentary and other behind-the-scenes info,[...]

While taking a spin on the Star Wars Celebration Chicago floor, we swung into the Galaxy's Edge experience and took a peak at some of the things that will await park guests when they attend the themed lands in Disneyland and Disney World this year In short: it was awesome Concept art was hung everywhere,[...]

New Marvel Select Ant-Man and Wasp figures, a special edition Captain Marvel doll, Captain Marvel Hot Toys Cosbaby figures, a new line of Cars die cast cars, new die cast Star Wars Droid figures, and a new line of figures called Shufflerz, little wind-up walking toys Tons of Toy Story characters in that line, with[...]

It was probably some of the biggest news to come out of San Diego Comic-Con that we were getting another season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars The show, which was canceled when Lucasfilm was bought by Disney, has been a sore spot for Star Wars fans for years Now that Disney has their own[...]

Fans were already set to be excited about the first live-action TV show within the Star Wars universe, but no one really expected The Mandalorian to look like this It was one of the biggest panels of the weekend – aside from Star Wars, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker since before that we had[...]

Disney+ series The Mandalorian just finished it's official panel during Star Wars Celebration in Chicago, and while they're not releasing the footage shown (yet), we DO get some pretty fabulous high res official images from Star Wars social media powers that be. Firstly- our official first in-show shot of Pedro Pascal as the title character- the Mandalorian. Then, Carl Weathers[...]

If you weren't able to make it to Star Wars Celebration in Chicago this weekend, you'll still have a chance to see some of the cast from a galaxy far, far away on Good Morning America this coming week. On Monday April 15th, the cast and director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker along with LucasFilm[...]

We are live at Star Wars Celebration and we braved through the snow to get here The weather here in Chicago might be gross but this show looks like it's going to be a lot of fun We are live at Star Wars Celebration and we braved through the snow to get here The[...]

We are pretty damn excited to learn more about the upcoming Disney+ Star Wars television series from Jon Favreau– The Mandalorian We got our "first look" at the official logo during the Disney Investor's Day presentation earlier this week, and it was just enough to boost those hype tanks. Today, there is a full panel at Star Wars[...]

Before you Star Wars fans start to panic about all the other sites running a story where Disney CEO Bob Iger commented on the cosmic conflict franchise going on hiatus after The Rise of Skywalker, maybe reading the full quote would be a good idea. The Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Bob Iger (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images[...]

We're three days into Star Wars Celebration Chicago and it's time to talk theme parks The arena was packed full of people ready to learn about the two theme parks that are opening up later this year and with this panel came the reminder that we are being sold to Perhaps this is a personal[...]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was all about breaking down the misconceptions the various characters had about themselves so they could rebuild themselves into something new For Poe Dameron, played by Oscar Isaac, that meant letting go of being a reckless and hotshot pilot and turning into a leader These were the lessons that Leia[...]

We think it's probably time to stop asking Star Wars actors about what is happening in the movies because it really seems like they have no idea what is going on The scary NDA's that the Marvel actors signed are just as strong as the NDA's that the Star Wars actors sign Fandango got the[...]

Earlier today, we shared with you the reveals from Hasbro's Star Wars Celebration panel We also had the opportunity to tour their booth and speak to two members of the Hasbro Star Wars Design Team, Patrick Schneider (Senior Brand Manager and really funny dude), and Sam Smith (Design Manager, very knowledgeable, not the singer) about[...]

Today during Star Wars: Celebration, Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts revealed the trailer for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order The game will put you in the shoes of Cal Kestis, who is one of the last surviving members of the Jedi Order following the purge that took place after the call of Order 66 Now[...]

Habro held their Star Wars Celebration panel yesterday afternoon, where they revealed their summer slate of Black Series, Vintage Collection, and exclusives that collectors will be gobbling up until The Rise of Skywalker toys hit in the fall Some really great stuff was shown, and they have now sent over official images of all of[...]

Today at Star Wars Celebration in Chicago, the main stage features a panel dedicated to the upcoming Disneyland and Walt Disney World lands, Galaxy's Edge. "Disney bought me as part of the Fox acquisition," Josh Gad joked as he kicked off the panel. There were some new concept art pieces shown of what Black Spire Outpost on[...]