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Before we begin, just take a deep breath.

The LucasArts president for this year, Paul Meegan, hasn't been very vocal since he took over. Then again, the whole of LucasArts has been pretty much under lockdown. Now MCV have finally got some details out of the man and... well... sigh.

Hmm, not as bad as I'd been expecting really. A few quibbling points to be raised, such as the need to cull those "bright and creative people" every couple of years, the fact that he's ignoring the want for re-releases, and that he's pretty much saying everything Jim Ward did and look where that got him. Still, not bad, don't know what the fuss is about rea-

Oh dear.

Source: MCV

This friday's update on the official The Old Republic website reveals more about the Sith Inquisitor class, which is part of the Sith empire faction.

There's a biography on the Sith character Khem Val, a new class video, and a look at the class's personal starship: Fury.

Source: swtor.com

The site itself is full of crashes, but Mojo has the info for you!

Update: The site is now back up and if you help Lucasfilm to spam your friends on misc. social networks with the news, you get to see more of a video showing stuff from the release.

The deal is apparently this: You can buy the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy in separate boxes, each containing three discs. Do you want to watch the new deleted scenes and other extra material, but want only one of the trilogies? Sucks to be you! In an effort to never let us forget they're a bunch of bastards, Lucasfilm will make the three extra discs available only in The Complete Saga box, containing all six films.

The sets will be available September 12th internationally and September 16th in North America. What follows is the special features breakdown from the press release:

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Tingler's fought hordes of Lego bricks to bring you Mojo's review of Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars.

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We're not the greatest around here to report on news regarding Star Wars: The Old Republic, but here's a couple of titbits:

Senior Environment Artist Robby Lamb has posted a new Studio Insider where he talks about polishing the game environment. Unlike a bad game critic, he goes into details on what polishing entails and what he does as a part of that process. Like a bad game critic, he really loves to use that word. A lot.

Continuing the tradition of peddling as much Star Wars merchandise as possible, two spin-off novels have already been released with a third in development. It's title has finally been revealed and it's Revan. There's a Q&A with the author and things on the official page.

Source: SWTOR.com News

Well, it's about damn time! Someone wants to go out and make a real life AT-AT.

This means only one thing: We need to create a donation button on Mojo so we can begin to save up for our Death Star. We have to stay one step ahead in the quickly growing field of building Star Wars technology!

Source: AT-AT for America

No doubt because we were all that excited, we flat-out forgot to trumpet the fact that LucasArts released LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars this week for these platforms. Of course, the notable thing here is that this game is a Nintendo 3DS launch title, probably. You might think that with the stress of watching Traveller's Tales make this game over, LEC could surely find the time to upload Day of the Tentacle to Steam, or announce a new Indiana Jones game or something. That's just where you're confused.

In what is to my knowledge the most Mojo-relevant session to take place at this year's GDC thus far, folks from Bioware discuss The Old Republic's localization process which, like everything else relating to this game, is enormous, expensive, and also costs a lot. Don't take my word for it, though - reading Gamasutra's write-up reveals that the effort being mounted is so considerable, it could very well take more than an Excel spreadsheet to accomplish:

It's a sad state of affairs when the best thing we can do to keep LEC on the front page is make asshole-ish remarks about articles covering the most mundane aspects of game that the company doesn't even appear to have anything to do with anymore. I don't know what we'd do without all those exciting games LEC itself has in the pipel- oh, wait.

Better news: Tim Schafer is currently exploiting a well-deserved invite to host the GDC for the second year in a row. There's probably already some good footage on the net somewhere, and maybe we can be bothered to find it for you once the show's finished.

*Figure may have been confused with the population of Chicago

Source: Gamasutra

The next Lego game from our friends at TT Games is once again relevant to our news and is looking quite superb, so we can happily say that Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is coming out 25th March. It was originally due out 18th February, but has been delayed for some unexplained reason.

I personally think that it's more than coincidence that this new release date coincides with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo's brand new handheld console. Being one of the only good games in a short launch line-up for an inevitably popular console will mean that people will flock to it (I know I will), but not if they've already bought it on other systems.

The game will be on every platform barring the dead PS2 (so PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, Wii, DS and 3DS), and I'm still waiting for them to notice that an iPhone version would be incredibly popular too. We'll try to have a review up around then.

Source: Gamershell

In a move that will likely invite the consternation of actual LEGO blocks, the upcoming LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars will apparently be receiving a version for Nintendo's hotly anticipated 3DS platform, release details for which were not-so-incidentally announced today. The third installment of Traveler's Tales block-building take on the Star Wars franchise appeared in this list of confirmed 3DS games, but I have no idea whether or not it's a launch title.

And you naysayers thought LucasArts wasn't up to anything.

Source: Gamasutra

The folks at GameSpy have put up a nice little preview of them playing The Old Republic as Jedi. Just enough to make you water at the mouth. I'm not really an MMO player, but this game has me genuinely interested. Even if it is just World of Warcraft with HK-47 a Star Wars touch...

I'm torn between the different classes available to take. My mind tells me one of the Jedi classes, but I fear too many will flock to that. Maybe I should be a smuggler. Hopefully will end up better than Han.

Source: GameSpy

I, for one, am actually really excited for The Old Republic. Whenever it actually releases, that is. Here's a new preview, which shows some back-story of the game.

I haven't heard about Dromund Kaas since Mysteries of the Sith! </useless reference>

Source: GameRant

Remember that DLC for STFU2 (aka Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 to those who haven't followed Mojo much)? Well, here's a clip from it. I wished Jar Jar was really in that AT-ST.

Source: Kotaku

Today we have lost the director of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Let us all take a moment of silence to reflect upon the excellence that is that movie.

Source: Yahoo! News

One of the mainstays of MOMOMOROGAPAs has been to hack away at resource nodes to gather materials. For The Old Republic, Bioware has changed this to let your crew do all the dirty work while you gallivant around the galaxy.

Your crew can specialize in gathering, crafting, and mission skills in order to open up a host of options to get better items and more credits.

Clicky here for the new crew skills page revealing some of the things your crew can get up to as well as a video.

Source: swtor.com

We've always been suspicious that LEC's actual involvement with the bigger-than-something-big MMORPG Stars Wars: The Old Republic was minor, but it turns out it's actually less:

So what exactly is LEC doing right now besides publishing LEGO Star Wars III? Well, it seems that they're working on a Star Wars Kinect title that will be available for the 360 Christmas 2011. "I've seen a bunch of the game and it's super compelling," declares a source.

Source: Gamasutra

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Well, The Force Unleashed II is now out, which means that The Critics are Unleashed Too. Here's a few:

Eurogamer: 5/10

KotakuGameTrailers

GamesRadar: 8/10

Hmm, GamesRadar's really contradicts some of the other reviews, especially regarding the quality of the story.

I kid, of course, but when it comes to Star Wars and CSI, one has to be an ass to validate their Mojoness to the public. After much ballyhooing over the last year and a half, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II ships today for, well, pretty much everything except that NES you converted your toaster oven into (Well, and PSP, but that hardly counts now - Tingler). Percentage of the considerable revenue which will be used by LEC to fund re-releases of legacy titles: 0.0%. Oh, and if you're planning on buying the game and you frequent this place, chances are one of the main selling points is the Guybursh Threepwood skin, so you'll no doubt appreciate Kotaku's cheat sheet for unlocking it.

Also in stores today is Ubisoft's CSI: Fatal Conspiracy, the fourth game in the series developed by Telltale. You can find it for PC, Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3. Mojo's review copy came in the mail today, so you won't have to wait too long with breath of the bated variety for our ever-valuable thoughts.

It's been reported today that George Lucas is working on some new Star Wars movies. The trilogy would be put into production after the re-release of the existing six movies in 3D, or 'Fadvision™'.

This would, presumably, have the same effect that the prequel trilogy did upon LucasArts - which is to say, they would make a whole bunch of Star Wars games. So if this Renaissance really gets going, don't hold your breath...

Of course, I might just be being needlessly negative. And it's just a rumour. George Lucas has done this kind of thing before, after all.

Source: io9