Children of the Jedi is set several months after the events of the Jedi Academy Trilogy. A deranged smuggler confronts Han and Leia on Ithor, and rambles on about what turns out to be a sanctuary of Jedi on Belsavis.
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Here’s a fun video of Canadian actor Dave Walpole seeking an audition for the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII! Thanks Dave for sharing it with us!
Star Wars Weekends 2013 is underway, and pictures and videos are coming in from all over! Inside the Magic let us know that they have footage of the always-entertaining Dance-Off With the Star Wars Stars!
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Before Knights of the Old Republic became Star Wars fans’ and non-fans’ favorite Star Wars game, there was Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. Developed by Raven Software (who are based out of my home state, Wisconsin) and released in 2002, Jedi Outcast follows two years after the events of Mysteries of the Sith, chronicling the further exploits of the bearded Kyle Katarn and his fight against the Reborn Empire. While it doesn’t inspire much faith from the slow to plodding opening, it’s once Katarn puts a lightsaber back in his hands where this game transforms into what I’d happily call the second best Star Wars game (for now). Read more
Tim Lebbon is an award winning horror and dark fantasy writer. His first published story was in the UK indie magazine Psychotrope in 1994, and in 1997 Tanjen published his first novel Mesmer. Since then he’s had over almost thirty books published in the UK and US by Bantam Spectra, Allison & Busby, Night Shade Books, Simon & Schuster, Leisure Books, PS Publishing, Necessary Evil Press, Cemetery Dance and many others, with many more due soon.
His latest work is Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void, which is set some 25,000 years before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope. We were pleased to have Tim answer a few questions for us regarding this exciting new novel.
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The cover for the highly anticipated Kenobi has been posted online! Link
Written by John Jackson Miller, Kenobi is currently due out on August 27, 2013. You can chat about Kenobi in our forums!
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Just about a month ago, LucasArts shut it’s development doors and switched to a licensing model for any and all upcoming Star Wars games. Today, Electronic Arts (EA) partnered with Disney/Lucasfilm to announce a multi-year, multi-title exclusive licensing agreement. Here’s some of the press release, which you can read in it’s entirety on the official site:
“Our number one objective was to find a developer who could consistently deliver our fans great Star Wars games for years to come,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. “When we looked at the talent of the teams that EA was committing to our games and the quality of their vision for Star Wars, the choice was clear.”
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Images of moons and caverns float through Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void, tying the novel together . More well-crafted than some Star Wars novels, this book delivers on its promise of a strong, uncompromising female hero. Like the core of Star Wars, Void is a story about a dysfunctional family, and although the characters are all new, it still felt like a good solid Star Wars adventure story with heart.
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Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void is prolific author Tim Lebbon’s first Star Wars novel, but he seems like a natural in the Expanded Universe. Even though the Dawn of the Jedi comics have been around for about a year, when it comes to novels, the setting is much different than anything we’ve seen before in the timeline; it’s some 25,000 years before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope.
Basically, this book is about a Je’daii Ranger named Lanoree Brock. She must rid the galaxy of a dangerous threat: her own brother. As you can imagine, this would be a tough assignment for anyone, but especially for a woman who as a girl, made it her duty to protect her younger brother, before he went missing and was presumed dead.
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