Even I Get Boarded Sometimes

Daniel L Smith recently won the “Best Animation” category of the Star Wars Fan Film Movie Challenge, which is run yearly over at Atom Films and sponsored by Lucasfilm. To see this properly you’d need a pair of red/cyan anaglyph glasses, but my eyes got used to it pretty quickly. I liked it! Not perfect… [...]

Round-a-bound – now with 100% more sand art!

Saw this on Star Wars Day: This lady must be lots of fun at the beach. Listen for Apocalyptica at around 3:30 and again later in the piece.

Say it with Stormtroopers

Your correspondent is spending Christmas in snowy Stockholm, where there isn’t much to do in the long, dark winter hours. Well, there wasn’t – until the internet and massively multiplayer online gaming. That might explain why Sweden has some of the western world’s best broadband penetration and some of the hardest pro gaming clans in [...]

Star Wars vs. Star Trek

Posting this here will forever brand me as an inveterate geek . . . but what the hell, it’s cool, and – hell, I’m a geek anyways.

i-LIMB

It’s about time we had some interesting news on this front. I’ve been wondering about the quality of prosthetics for years; a lot of what’s on the market doesn’t seem very far removed from the same basic options that have been available to humans for centuries. People’s limbs have been flying for ages – in pop culture it seems [...]

Hey, George Lucas needs to eat, too.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is the computer-generated latest chapter in the venerable space opera that chronicles the efforts of the Jedi Knights to prevent a powerful criminal empire from siding with the Separatists during the eponymous period in Star Wars history. Apparently dissatisfied with the treatment that the Clone Wars received in Genndy Tartakovsky’s [...]

Divided Nerds Weep, Cheer as DnD 4th Edition Debuts

Wizards of the Coast have released the 4th Edition of Dungeons and Dragons, arguably the most popular tabletop role-playing game in the world. The new ruleset focuses on faster, more action-oriented play – not unlike the current version of the Star Wars RPG played by most of the O514 crew – and is in many [...]

Prepare your troops for a ground attack.

So, Halo 3 Forge mode + the new Avalanche map + hours of hard work + a love of Star Wars = Click here for more screenshots and details on how it came together.