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BioWare agrees Mac version of Star Wars: The Old Republic is important

by Mike Schramm (Jan 3rd, 2012)

Star Wars: The Old Republic is the new hotness in massively multiplayer games, and I'm really enjoying playing a smuggler on my PC. But unlike Blizzard, which makes World of Warcraft and has had a long policy of releasing both PC and Mac versions on the same disc, BioWare (who makes SW:TOR, as ...

iOS 5 iPhones can now shop for alert/text tones

by Michael Rose (Oct 13th, 2011)

For some of us, the addition of fully customizable SMS/alert tones in iOS 5 is the biggest improvement in the feature list. (Well, maybe not the biggest, but certainly one of the biggest.) Since alerts can be linked directly to contacts for incoming iMessages or SMS receipts, having a larger ...

Apple is worth more than all of these things

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 21st, 2011)

With Apple (AAPL) having a market cap of roughly US$387 billion, it becomes the most valuable company in the US. Matter of fact, it currently has a $30 billion lead over the next most valuable company, Exxon Mobil (XOM). However, market caps are boring. What's fun is to look at how much Apple ...

Star Wars Blu-ray pre-release app ready for iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 17th, 2011)

Fox Mobile Entertainment updated its Star Wars Blu-Ray Early Access App to include support for the iPhone. Now all you smartphone owners can enjoy the same experience as your iPad-owning brethren. The app is a teaser meant to tide you over until the Blu-Ray discs land next month. It includes ...

Star Wars Stormtroopers use Mac System 6

by Chris Rawson (Apr 26th, 2011)

The evil Galactic Empire is well-known for cutting corners in its engineering, with gaping chasms scattered seemingly at random throughout the Death Star without a single guardrail in sight. It turns out the Empire's computer systems are also woefully out of date; as designer Matt Chase ...

Falcon Gunner, Star Wars augmented reality game for iPhone

by Dave Caolo (Nov 18th, 2010)

Falcon Gunner (US$4.99) is a Star Wars-themed, augmented reality game for iPhone that superimposes battle scenes over live video of your surroundings. You say people give you grief for staring at your iPhone too much as it is? Now you can annoy them with the power of The Force. Like many young ...

Official Star Wars shop selling R2-D2 case for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Aug 19th, 2010)

As a big Star Wars fan, I followed all of the news out of the Star Wars Celebration event last weekend, but this might be my favorite. The official online Star Wars shop has begun selling its very own iPhone case, which as you can see above, will dress up your favorite smartphone as a ...

Steve Jobs introduces the Death Star

by Mike Schramm (May 31st, 2010)

This is an idea so beautiful in its execution that you wonder why it hasn't been done before -- take Steve Jobs' rapturous introduction of the iPad, and put it over the footage from Star Wars of the Death Star briefing. It's a perfect geeky mashup -- I especially love Han Solo's indifference ...

Star Wars Lego iPhone dock gives Force to the iPhone

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 24th, 2010)

Chris Harrison has four addictions: caffeine, Legos, his iPhone, and Star Wars. Put those together and what do you get? A Star Wars Lego iPhone dock, of course. The image to the right is just one of the creations Chris has built. Check out his Flickr page for a host of others (many are quite ...

Coming soon: Lightsaber duels on the iPhone

by Chris Rawson (Mar 20th, 2010)

Do you need a weapon that's not as clumsy or random as a blaster, or perhaps, an elegant weapon from a more civilized age? Soon, there will be an app for that. THQ Wireless, the maker of several Star Wars-themed iPhone apps including The Force Unleashed and Star Wars: Trench Run, will release a new ...

Star Wars: Trench Run for the $5 Jedi in all of us

by TJ Luoma (Nov 17th, 2009)

Simply put: Star Wars: Trench Run [iTunes link] is awesome. The idea is fairly simple: you are re-enacting the final battle scene from the first Star Wars movie, and if you think that refers to The Phantom Menace, may God have mercy on your soul. There's a dogfight, with you in your X-wing versus ...

Destroy the Death Star from the comfort of your iPhone

by Ken Ray (Oct 24th, 2009)

Wanna blow up the Death Star? There's an app for that! At least there should be soon. StarWars.com has word of the upcoming iPhone and iPod Touch game "Star Wars: Trench Run," letting players do the cool stuff Luke Skywalker did in Episode IV (minus the whining), namely: blow up the Death Star. ...

iPhone-controlled R2D2

by Dave Caolo (May 12th, 2009)

It's impossible not to love a blog post that begins, "I found a way to remote control my R2D2 with an iPhone." The video above shows the author, ggpipe, using the iPhone's accelerometer to control R2's dome. Pretty cool. In the future, he plans to use the phone to send text to R2's logic displays. ...

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed hits the App Store

by Dave Caolo (Sep 15th, 2008)

Back in July, we got our first glimpse of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the iPhone. In the demo, the game seemed to make clever (although possibly somewhat distracting) use of the touch screen. In the end, we were eager to try it out. Today, we finally can. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is now ...

LEGO Star Wars goes Universal

by David Chartier (Apr 24th, 2007)

A long time ago, in a squarish galaxy far, far away... Aspyr media, in an effort to save Mac users of the planet Earth from certain doom and boredom, released a Universal patch for LEGO Star Wars. That's right: it's been a while since we've had to write about an app (finally) going Universal ...