This upcoming weekend sees the 2025 edition of Star Wars Day (May 4, just in case you had forgotten) and there’s big news for fans of the franchise. And also Fortnite. The new Disney+ show, Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, is having its big premiere not on the TV, but inside Fortnite. Two whole … Read more
Fortnite, for better or worse, has become the video game mecca for cross-promotional events. We saw it back in 2019 when Star Wars unceremoniously announced that somehow Emperor Palpatine returned in a galaxy-wide broadcast explicitly housed in the battle royale before moviegoers received that information in the Rise of Skywalker opening title crawl. Now, Star Wars … Read more
Centenarian Dorothea Barron recalled the wave of relief she felt when she heard World War II had finally come to an end. “Thank goodness that’s over,” the British Navy veteran remembers thinking. Eighty years on, the spritely 100-year-old — who now teaches yoga and saw in her big birthday with a celebratory flight in a … Read more
Coming into Andor season two, we learned the surprising fact that one big returning character in the season would no longer be played by their legacy actor. This week, we learned exactly who it was—and at a time when Star Wars has found itself on diverging paths when it comes to opening up classic characters to … Read more
There’s a new animated Star Wars show coming soon and it’s set to actually premiere in the game Fortnite. Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld will be available to watch in-game starting on May 2 at 10AM ET. This is two full days before the show streams on Disney+. Viewing will take place in a … Read more
Update, April 29, 2025 at 3:22 p.m. — Bloomberg reports 300-400 employees in total have been laid off from Electronic Arts, with a Titanfall game early in development being canceled. Update: According to a report from Bloomberg, between 300 and 400 employees have been laid off from Electronic Arts on Tuesday, including the 100 staff … Read more
This weekend, the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 20th anniversary re-release had a much stronger performance than expected with $25 million and a second-place finish behind Sinners. Revenge of the Sith was the culmination of plans by Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) that led to the fall of the Jedi and his own ascension to … Read more
Intelligent driving features are the new battleground in China’s merciless car market, with competition spurring brands to world-leading advances — but a recent fatal crash has seen the government intervene to put the brakes on runaway enthusiasm. Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) help with tasks ranging from cruise control to parking and collision avoidance, with the … Read more
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This year, Star Wars Nite at the Disneyland Resort expanded its run with multiple dates of the popular, separately ticketed event geared toward fans of a galaxy far, far away. And let me tell you, I am so glad they did this to meet the demand from previous years. Last spring, the limited event felt packed … Read more