VIDEOGAMES FEATURE: FRIDAY FLASHBACK

Following on from last weeks major Star Wars announcements, Nick returns to the Sci-Fi genre to take a look at one of the franchises own attempts at continuing the sagas storyline...

STAR WARS JEDI KNIGHT: DARK FORCES II 

Released: 1997

Developer: Lucasarts

Original Platform: PC

By Nick Murray, Videogames Contributor. 

Okay, okay... I know. A couple of features ago I said I was taking a break from sci-fi games for a while, and here I am writing an article about a Star Wars game. I think it’s justified though, with all the talk of a new trilogy now that Lucasfilm has been consumed by Disney, how could I not write about a Star Wars game? Let's just take a second to consider how exciting this really is. 

STAR WARS EPISODES 7 - 9 ANNOUNCED! - A Great Disturbance in the Force?

With the shock announcement today that Disney has acquired LucasFilm and are set to release Star Wars Episodes 7 - 9 from 2015 onwards, Kyle takes a look at what this could mean for the saga, and whether or not there seems cause for concern...

For the original story and more specifics on the announcement, please see the Digital Spy article HERE.

By Kyle Pedley, Editor-in-Chief of (A)musings

It’s rare for film industry announcements to completely blindside me in the way this particular story has done so. As an enormous fan of the Star Wars franchise, I’ve often pondered the possibility of another trilogy in the series, bolstered by inconsistent testimony that it was part of Lucas’s original outline back in the 70’s and the wealth of potential plot material that can be mined from the enormous ‘extended universe’ that has perpetuated through the countless post-Return of the Jedi comics, novels, videogames etc. Lucas himself has said on occasion that a particular fan-favourite storyline that dealt with the characters and stories after the ending of episode 6 would be the most suitable and likely candidate for an episode 7 onward adaptation, but alas it all seemed mere pipe dreams, and with Lucas’ recent announcement that he was retiring from filmmaking in a directorial capacity, the saga seemed destined to remain complete and final as it was. Shocked am I then, to say the least, that the elusive 'sequel trilogy' has not only been announced, but with Lucas no longer involved in their production whatsoever.