Arcade1Up on Thursday said it launched presales for the Star Wars Home Arcade Game through GameStop. The machine, which stands just over 5 feet tall, features original artwork, a light-up marquee, a full-color 17-inch display and dual speakers. The Star Wars Home Arcade Game includes original arcade versions of classic games based on A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi.

You’ll soon be able to dress up as Star Wars’ most infamous bounty hunter — or at least get a start on a costume. On Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, Hasbro revealed that it will release a new entry in its premium Black Series line of costume accessories: Boba Fett’s helmet.

On Tuesday, April 30, actor Peter Mayhew—the actor who played Chewbacca for more than three decades—passed away at the age of 74 at his home in North Texas. As a tribute to the pop culture hero's iconic character, here are 15 things you might not know about Han Solo's BFF.

As the search for life continues, it's looking more and more likely that the answer might be 'yes.'

Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy recently confirmed the production company is thinking about developing something related to BioWare’s classic role-playing game “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.” “Knights of the Old Republic, a lot of fans want to see that, is there any development of that?” MTV reporter Josh Horowitz asked Kennedy during Star Wars Celebration last weekend.

Respawn Entertainment and EA have revealed the first trailer for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, their upcoming singleplayer Star Wars game that's due out on November 15. The trailer was revealed at the Star Wars Celebration event today, and shows the game's hero Cal Kestis, played by actor Cameron Monaghan of Shameless and Gotham, on the run from the Empire and its Inquisitors following the events of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

Sound designer Ben Burtt explains why TIE fighters sound like elephants.

Emulating Star Wars combatants will encourage young people to engage in regular exercise, says French Fencing Federation

Fans recently jumped for joy when reports came in about Disney seemingly reviving Lucasfilm Games, which a lot of fans know as LucasArts. Many of us were hoping it would lead to a number of cool new games like Monkey Island or even Knights of the Old Republic but it looks like they might just be brought back to manage Star Wars games. However, there’s a good chance that it was also brought back so that EA won’t have the license anymore.

France's fencing federation has recognized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport

EA recently canceled an open-world Star Wars game that was being developed at its Vancouver studio, and commentators are pissed. Rogue One screenwriter Gary Whitta, who has also worked on the creative side of games development, blasted EA on Kinda Funny Games Daily. YouTube games pundit and former Destructoid editor Jim Sterling said EA should lose the Star Wars license. Kotaku wrote an explainer about EA’s troubles finishing Star Wars games.

Ever since the most recent Star Wars game cancellation at EA, there has been a ton of discussion surrounding the publisher and its use of the license. Over the weekend, an older story began doing the rounds again, reminding the world that at one point, Bioware was working on a Knights of the Old Republic reboot.

According to a new report, EA's open-world Star Wars game, in development following the closure of Visceral Games, has also been canceled. Kotaku has reported this game's alleged cancellation. According to Kotaku, this Star Wars game was the one announced following Visceral Games' closure in 2017, which came alongside the cancellation of Amy Hennig's game in production at the studio. Development resources at the time shifted from Visceral's title, reportedly codenamed Ragtag, to this new, now reportedly canceled title.

Back in 2016 during Star Wars Day, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was announced. But then we heard nothing about the game until June 9, 2018, when Electronic Arts re-announced the game during its E3 press conference. But unfortunately, said announcement was basically nothing more than just mere confirmation that it existed. That said, while details are scarce, we've combed the Internet for every bit of information about the game we could find so we could put it all under the roof of one article.

“I’m guessing that’s not true because I don’t know about it yet,” Portman said. Natalie Portman shut down rumors on Thursday that she’ll be returning as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode IX, the next installment of the sci-fi fantasy series scheduled to be released in December 2019. “I’m guessing that’s not true because I don’t know about it yet,” Portman said on BuzzFeed News’ Twitter morning show AM to DM.

Disney has set The Americans executive producer Stephen Schiff to showrun their upcoming Rogue One prequel series starring Diego Luna for their new streaming service.

See the early looks for Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader and other “Star Wars” favorites, from the Oscar-winning John Mollo’s sketchbooks.

Unreal Engine 4 recreations are nothing new, however the Star Wars Mos Eisley spaceport project—which comes courtesy of a group of Obsidian developers—is pretty impressive. Headed by Jason Lewis, a total of 17 devs of varying rank are using the project to learn more about the engine, but of course being self-confessed “super Star Wars nerds” makes the undertaking that bit easier. Speaking to 80.lv, Lewis says he first started out with the desire to craft a three dimensional Millennium Falcon, however things quickly spiralled as the project grew in scope.

Boba Fett’s much-hoped-for spinoff movie has been 100% canned, while all Disney’s Star Wars efforts are put to The Mandalorian TV series.

The state of Star Wars fandom is currently complicated, to say the least, leading Lucasfilm to seemingly struggle to determine the best way to not only appease as many fans as possible but also push the saga in new directions. Recent reports regarding the licenses that Lucasfilm is seeking for its upcoming live-action Star Wars: The Mandalorian series could confirm they expect the show to become the key to reviving excitement about the galaxy far, far away.