Here's the trailer for Bioware's new Star Wars MMO game. It looks amazing.
The Old Republic takes place thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader and at a time when war was raging between the Old Republic and the Sith Empire.
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Cad Bane - Bounty Hunter of Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The Jedi better watch out. A new bounty hunter named Cad Bane is on the hunt.Count Dooku seeks to spring a Separatist prisoner from Republic captivity, but his profile prevents him from getting close enough to set in motion his malevolent plan.
Enter Cad Bane, the galaxy's most fearsome bounty hunter, as ruthless as he is deadly. He is quintessentially cold, cruel and calculating – and when the price is right, he can't be stopped. Backed by Dooku and the Separatists, he's bringing his unique skill set and impressive arsenal to bear against the very heart of the Republic. Bane brazenly brings the fight to the Senate's doorstep, with a rogues gallery of galactic scum as his allies...
Patterned after the laconic gunslingers of spaghetti Westerns, Bane is lethally cool and relishes being a bad guy. He is unflappable in the face of danger, and even welcomes the opportunity to pit his formidable skills against the legendary prowess of the Jedi Knights.
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Monday, 16 March 2009
Monday, 9 March 2009
Star Wars Live-Action TV Series Casting Underway
We all got burnt with the Star Wars prequels and our faith in Lucas was rent asunder. Indy 4 didn't help matters, but the Clone Wars TV show (both 2D and 3D) has been bringing the Star Wars universe back, as has the recent Force Unleashed video game. One of the main things they have in common is that people other than Lucas have directed them. Now some news on the live action Star Wars show has hit the web via MTV.A live-action TV series set in the “Star Wars” cosmos has been an elusive, tantalizing prospect for years. News of the potential production first surfaced in 2005 while George Lucas was promoting “Revenge of the Sith.” Work on the “Clones Wars” animated feature film and Cartoon Network series, though, took creative precedence. In late 2007, Lucas revealed that he and his team were about to begin writing scripts for the live-action show. Now MTV News has learned that casting for the series is currently underway.During the junket for the Nicolas Cage thriller “Knowing,” star Rose Byrne let slip that Team Lucas is casting a wide net for actors to join the show. “A lot of my friends have been auditioning for it,” she said.
According to Lucas, the show will focus on minor characters from the saga and be set in the time period between “Revenge of the Sith” (Episode III) and the original “Star Wars” (Episode IV). The action will follow the Rebel Alliance as it slowly gains strength against the Empire. There will be Stormtroopers, but no Jedi or Darth Vader will appear on screen. As he did with the “Clone Wars” series, Lucas will write and shoot an entire year’s worth of episodes before looking for a cable channel on which to air the series.
Thus, with casting just now moving forward, it looks to be quite some time before fans will be able to catch some live-action “Star Wars” on the small screen.
Bryne couldn’t have been more pleased about her time working with Lucas on 2002’s “Attack of the Clones.” “My experience was wonderful,” she said. “George is a great guy. I was just there for a week, standing behind Natalie [Portman] looking very demure and supportive. 95% of the fan mail I get is from ‘Star Wars’ and I’ve never seen them.”
As much as she enjoyed the “Star Wars” experience, Byrne, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work on FX’s “Damages,” will not be auditioning for the live-action series. “I’m on a show,” she said. “I don’t know if I look that good in space.”
Artwork by Travis Charest
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Monday, 26 January 2009
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Use the Force...for real...or not...depends on your Midi-chlorians count (Damn you Lucas for confusing us)
USA Today have the news on this new toy which will probably be really crap and is basically a load of ping pong balls and a fan!The Force Trainer (expected to be priced at $90 to $100) comes with a
headset that uses brain waves to allow players to manipulate a sphere within a
clear 10-inch-tall training tower, analogous to Yoda and Luke Skywalker's
abilities in the Star Wars films.
In the Force Trainer, a wireless headset reads your brain activity, in
a simplified version of EEG medical tests, and the circuitry translates it to
physical action. If you focus well enough, the training sphere, which looks like
a ping-pong ball, will rise in the tower.
A state of deep concentration is needed to achieve a Force-full
effect. "When you concentrate, it activates the training remote," says Frank
Adler of toymaker Uncle Milton Industries, which is creating the Trainer. "There
is a flow of air that will move the (ball). You can actually feel like you are
in a zone."
Star Wars sound effects and audio clips emitted from the base unit
"cue you in to progress to the next level (from Padawan to Jedi) or when to move
the sphere up or down to keep challenging yourself," Adler says.
"Until today, EEG technology has been designed for rigorous medical
and clinical applications with little regard to price (and) ease of use," says
Greg Hyver of NeuroSky, which developed the brain-wave technology for both
games. "We are putting this exciting technology into everyone's living
room."
I think I can feel something!
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Thursday, 27 November 2008
Warwick Davis would love to be Dr Who
The excellent chap, Dave Bentley, over at The Coventry Telegraph Geek Files has news on another actor who would love to be considered for the next regeneration of the one true Time Lord. That's right Willow, Wicket, The Leprechaun, the one and only Warwick Davis. Here's what Dave has to say.ACTOR Warwick Davis said he'd love to be the new Doctor Who and have his own special TARDIS.
The 38-year-old star, who plays Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter films, was among sci-fi celebrities at The Memorabilia Show at the NEC, Birmingham, this past weekend.
He said: "I want to be in Doctor Who. I would kill to replace David Tennant and become the next Time Lord.
"I had a great idea: Doctor Who is going to change, regenerate, but something goes a bit wrong. For just a couple of episodes it would be me as the Doctor, they go in the Tardis and inside it's not vast, it's tiny and they all bang their heads!"
Davis played the lead in Willow and in the Leprechaun film series, Reepicheep in the TV versions of the Narnia books and was the dwarf Nikabrik in this year's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
I do like Warwick's idea of being the Doctor for an episode or two. He's a great actor and it would put a nice spin on things. Head on over to read the rest of the article and Warwick's memories of playing Wicket in Return of the Jedi.
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