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GamesDomain.com is hosting a chat event that is not to be missed. Take a look at the details:

• What: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Live Chat


• Who: Raven Software/Activision


• When: Friday March 1st, 6PM GMT/1PM EST

That's tomorrow, so don't miss it!

Source: homelanfed.com
via JackTheG

There is an intervew on Homelan Fed with Gary Gaber, the project lead from SW Galactic Battlegrounds. In it he talks about Expansion packs that will fit in with Episode 2 upon it's release this Summer (amongst other things).

What has the response been to the included map editor in Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds and have you checked out any of the third party maps that have been released?

The response has been great! I've seen quite a few fan-created scenarios and screenshots popping up across the web. They really seem to like the toybox full of units in the scenario editor. We are not going to let them down either with the expansion pack: we are filling out some more cool toybox units, including the much requested Jabba and some of his minions.

I wonder if he approved of our Special Ultimate Star Wars Smackdow Section?

In what can be described as an effort from the marketing department, the Official LucasArts Website has posted a few icons relating to Jedi Outcast. These icons can be used for avatars and things of the like. Check them out if you've got some extra free time.

LucasArts has posted the smallest site possible for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. KOR is an RPG co-produced by LucasArts and BioWare, the makers of Baldur's Gate. It takes place thousands of years before the films, so there are packs of Jedi roaming about doing good deeds and whatnot.

Out of all the games LucasArts was previewing at E3 2001, this one was the most impressive in my mind. Here's the original press release from when the game was first announced, for more info.

Three new screenshots have been posted on the official Star Wars Galaxies site. These screenshots feature three VERY impressive environments that practically scream, "EXPLORE ME!" And not in that way, you sickos. Be sure to check them out!

Game publishing house Aspyr Media has put up a spotlight site for the Mac edition of Galactic Battlegrounds. They say you'll need a 333 Mhz G3 or G4 to play it. The port's current status is listed as "first playable build" and the estimated release date given is April 2002.

Aspyr also handled the Mac port of Escape From Monkey Island, so hopefully this is a start of a nice trend (*cough*JKII*cough*).

The questionable sequel and Mojo office joke Star Wars Racer Revenge was reviewed by IGN PS2, and received an 8.4 out of 10. That's pretty nice! According to IGN, Racer Revenge isn't the mediocre sequel that everyone expected, but is instead a fun, polished arcade-style racer.

The review calls Racer Revenge's appearance at last year's E3 "assy," and we couldn't agree more. Out of all the games demoed, Racer Revenge had the smallest crowd (if any) at LEC's booth no matter when we stopped by. It's honestly good to hear that the game may have shaped up so much since:

Always breaking down the essentials of every game it takes on, Rainbow [Studios] has fine-tuned the pods, fleshed out the courses and infused the game with a Road Rash sensibility, adding in bruising pod racer-style fights to the mix. As a racing fan and someone always hoping that LucasArts will live up to its potential on the consoles, I was pleased as punch to play through this racer several times...

Whether you doubted Racer Revenge's quality or you knew all along that it would be pure gold (or at least... 8.4 gold), you ought to give the review a read.

Remi, of The SCUMM Bar, has written us a review of Star Wars: Obi-Wan for XBox, and basically crushes it.

What?s worse is how the textures used for Obi-Wan himself seem to break up completely when there?s some additional movement on screen. Something like this would be half-way excusable if it only happened on some of the bad guys, but on the main character? For heaven?s sake, we have to look at him all the time!

Hopefully this is the last time we'll have to lay into a Star Wars game this hard, since the games on the horizon don't look so horrible. I'm actually frighteningly excited about JKII and Jedi Starfighter.

Although the system requirements for JK2 have yet to be posted on the official website, Amazon.com has posted the specs as follows:

• Pentium II 300 MHz or faster processor
• Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, or 2000
• 16 MB 3-D accelerator with full OpenGL support

Update: LucasArts has posted the official requirements here. They're not much different from the Amazon ones, but they're more detailed.

GalacticBattles.com, thanks to LucasArts, has an exclusive video going "behind the scenes" of Galactic Battlegrounds. They've only published the first part, dealing with the thinking behind the art of the game, but apparently more will follow.

Those not interested in Battlegrounds or Star Wars at a whole should watch it for the exclusive LEC content: a sneak peek at a LucasArts cubicle, computer screen, and art binder!

The Formulaic Friday Fun continues with LucasArts.com announcing that its new PlayStation 2 title, Jedi Starfighter, has gone gold. There is also an exlusive and very cinematic trailer for this new title over at the official product page. Jedi Starfighter should be in stores the week of March 11th.

The Official LucasArts Website has established a new contest that is sure to wet the appetite of you wanna-be (oops, we mean "aspiring") game makers. Simply create a mission for the game Star Wars? Galactic Battlegrounds? with the scenario editing tools and then submit it to LucasArts by April 3rd.

If you win, your level will be included on the upcoming expansion disc Clone Campaigns?. Plus, you'll get $50 worth of credit at the LucasArts store. There will be four grand prize winners as well as four runners-up. For the details, please visit this page here.

Lucasarts' featured screenshot is from Jedi Outcast this week. In this shot, it looks as though Kyle is facing a very formidable foe: himself. Could some diabolical force have cloned Kyle their own evil purposes? Or could he just be looking into a well-disguised mirror? Only time will tell.

IGN's XBox site has a new article reporting that Bioware will now develop its Knights of the Old Republic title only for PC and XBox. In case you don't remember, Knights of the Old Republic is a Star Wars role playing game that was quietly announced last year. Mojo was treated to a private showing of this product last May at E3, and I can say that this looks to be one really cool game. Here's a quote from the IGN article:

As a young padawan, you'll get to explore eight unique worlds and interact with numerous characters. Gameplay will be nonlinear, allowing players to choose which subplots to explore and which to ignore. Knights features some really cool (from what we've seen of the PC version) lightsaber battles.

More information on this title will mostly likely be revealed at E3 this May.

To continue the promotional media frenzy of Jedi Outcast, the official LucasArts website has updated its Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast product spotlight with a new Jedi Knote exploring the art of the game as well as ten new screenshots.

The Massassi Temple has obtained seven new screenshots of Jedi Outcast from PC Gamer UK. The screenshots include a more up-close and personal view of some of the character models. While these aren't the best screenshots we've seen so far, they're still quite interesting. Scroll down a bit on the Massassi page to see them.

Game File Formats have done it again! They have programmed a PAK Explorer for the recently released Star Wars Starfighter. PAK files are the archive files which hold all the raw data for the game.

Just to remind you folks, this page also has tools such as a background image viewer for Escape from Monkey Island and Music extractors for Grim Fandango.

So you spent Valentine's Day alone and now you find yourself home on a Friday night. What do you do? Why, go to LucasArts.com of course! In today's update, you'll find a new PC demo for Starfighter, some concept art for the recently announced Galactic Battleground: Clone Campaigns, new screenshots for Jedi Starfigher, and an online intro video to Racer Revenge. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Yep... time to go hit the local clubs.

For Valentine's Day, the official LucasArts website has issued a press release, announcing an expansion pack for Galactic Battlegrounds entitled Clone Campaigns. The expansion pack, "inspired by the large-scale battles in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones," will be released in May and will require that you own the original Galactic Battlegrounds game. In other news, how many italicized titles can I possibly include in one news update? Also, Star Wars? Racer Revenge? is now in stores.

CNNMoney, a business news website, has posted an article about LucasArts and its use of the Star Wars license. The article includes some of the sales figures for Episode I games. However, the tight deadlines of these games and their critical reaction were also explored. Here's a quote from the article:

"What we learned from 'The Phantom Menace' was that we didn't want to be in that position again," said Twist Phillips. "We, as well as everyone else, wanted to explore more, rather than be tied in with the narrative. ... We're looking at the universe in a much broader way -- not just limiting it to Episode One or Episode Two and so on."

The article goes on to drop hints about some new titles to be announced in the coming months, although sadly, there is no mention of an original title.

Source: TheForce.net