Just as The Force Awakens is the most anticipated movie, like, ever, Star Wars Battlefront is the game of the holiday season. A complete overhaul of the decade-old series, Battlefront places Force-strong gamers in the role of either a soldier for the Rebel Alliance or an Imperial Stormtrooper (with better aim, hopefully). Set during the original film trilogy, it puts […]
All week long, we’re exploring the formation of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Click herefor an index page, which will be updated as they are published. Following the successes of Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars trilogy, Bantam Spectra found it had stumbled on a gold mine: the public had a ravenous appetite for new stories in the franchise, […]
This week, LucasFilm revealed plans for a Star Wars spinoff film that will delve into the origin of charming Rebel rogue Han Solo. But if you ask me (and, I’d wager, thousands of other lifelong franchise fans), we’ve already gotten a fine version of it. When I was in middle school, I earned my one and only detention—I […]