Survivor’s Writers on Giving Cal a Scene-Stealing Counterpart

Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi games are firmly embedded in the years before the original trilogy, and keep the focus on a core cast of wholly new heroes and villains. It’s what made Star Wars Jedi: Survivor from earlier this year so excellent: the games take advantage of that relative freedom from the timeline and offer … Read more

Jedi Survivor Was the Best of Star Wars We Got This Year

This year has been jam-packed with new Star Wars, with three new seasons of TV in Bad Batch, The Mandalorian, and Ahsoka, and oodles of books and comics that saw us revisit legends or the High Republic. Even as we await its return to the big screen, Star Wars remains ever-present—but one new story in … Read more

Kylo Ren Wasn’t Originally Supposed to Become Ben Solo Again

As if the movies themselves didn’t make it more than obvious, fans have long come to understand that the Star Wars sequel trilogy changed drastically throughout development. Multiple writers and directors worked on The Force Awakens as well as The Rise of Skywalker, sometimes with radically different results, while The Last Jedi stayed true to … Read more

Deadpool 3’s Shawn Levy Took Inspiration From Star Wars

Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy with Shawn Levy at the world premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.Photo: esse Grant/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images) Unlike a lot of other upcoming movies, Deadpool 3 is still on track to open as scheduled, in May of 2024. In a new interview, director Shawn Levy explains that much of … Read more

NBA Rookie Star’s Wild Ranking

When it comes to debating Star Wars, the prevailing thought is that all opinions are equal. Where that changes ever so slightly is if you’re 7 foot 4 inches tall and were just drafted number one overall in the NBA. Andor Episodes 1-3 Review Victor Wembanyama is a 19-year-old French basketball phenom who the San … Read more

Loungefly Pets Line Features Loki, Spider-Man, Star Wars

Image: Loungefly Cosplay looks for your pets are here from Loungefly, with a new line of backpacks and other accessories from some of your favorite fandoms. The soon-to-be released collection has revealed its first line of pet gear just in time for holiday shopping. It’s not only super adorable but highly functional, with awesome collars, … Read more

The Eyes of Ahsoka, Ranked

Image: Lucasfilm Sure, Huyang isn’t an organic being. But I think he deserves a special shoutout—a crowning shoutout, in fact—if we’re talking about eyes in Ahsoka because the show did such a fantastic job with his design and keeping him emotive with one simple trick: making his photoreceptors LEDs that were capable of animating Huyang’s … Read more

Man Sentenced After AI ‘Girlfriend’ Pushed Him to Assassinate Queen

A man who was encouraged to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II by his chatbot girlfriend was sentenced to nine years in prison by a UK judge on Thursday. Jaswant Singh Chail was just 19 years old when he scaled the wall of the late queen’s Windsor Castle home, armed with a loaded crossbow and donning a … Read more

The Jedi, Witch and Warlord

It’s mind-blowing to think Ahsoka is already over. Fans waited years to see how the character’s story would continue and now, a mere eight episodes later, a major piece of that story has come to its end. Spoilers of the Week May 9-13 The season has seen its ups and downs, from a slow-paced, slightly … Read more