The reception of a videogame is often as much about expectation as it is about the game itself. Many promises are made a broken between game conception and game launch. As Matt Blum's post eloquently set out, Kinect Star Wars had a whole range of competing hopes.

If you have young Star Wars fans in your house, and they haven't read Tom Angelberger's pair of origami-novel love letters to the franchise, I highly recommend you pick them both up now. And if you don't have young Star Wars fans, but you are yourself perhaps a less-young Star ...

My six year old daughter loves baseball (when she was three she invited Manny Ramirez to visit her school). She also loves Star Wars (which she consideres the ultimate princess movies). And she loves video games especially those that involve smashing things).

Cartoonist Jeffrey Brown has envisioned a hilarious world in which Darth Vader has custody of little Luke. He's still Darth Vader, mind you, but he's also a dad, with all that it entails: Vader trying to have a conversation with the Emperor while Luke pokes at him, trying to get ...

What makes one person sacrifice everything to become a Jedi Knight, and another embrace the Dark Side? What goes into creating the unique personality of every person, alien, or droid in the galaxy -- or even galaxies far, far away? Those questions are at the heart of Star Wars Identities, ...

At last, the galaxy far, far away has come to Legoland Windsor. Just over a year after the Star Wars Miniland opened in Legoland California (read Dave Banks' excellent write up of that one here) the Lego master builders have recreated all the same models again and brought them to ...

This could just be the Lego Star Wars project to defeat all Lego Star Wars projects.

Hello, Grantland readers! Thanks for stopping by. You found me running a clip show. How embarrassing for all of us. For those of you that aren’t readers of Grantland, you should be, especially since they used my video of Darth Vader throwing out the first pitch at last Friday’s Dodger ...

When I was a kid, I knew this wise old man who was very into mystical Eastern philosophy. I didn’t really have a clue what that even meant beyond the little education I’d received from TV shows and movies. Which should basically ...

Sometimes, an author/creative-type comes along and shows you that you suck. At everything. Ever. Jeffrey Brown is that man to me right now. Jeff (you know, since we’re friends now) made a little book titled “Darth Vader and Son” which follows Vader, ...