One of the best video games to come out of the
Star Wars universe was
The Knights of the Old Republic, which is set 4,000 years before the events in
A New Hope, and was also the first RPG set inside the
Star Wars world. The original game came out in 2003 with a sequel in 2004, and if this rumored
concept art turns out to be right, then LucasArts is working on a tre-quel for the series. Above is "Dashaad's Fighter," which looks a bit like a TIE-Fighter that's been through a taffy-pulling machine. Find more Republican goodness in the gallery below.
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Spore, the upcoming 6+-years-in-the-making project from Will Wright (Sim City, The Sims, and Sim everything else) is releasing its fabulous alien species design tool, the Creator Creator today as a free download. Spore is Sim-Rise-of-Intelligent-Life-In-The-Galaxy, and it is a fountain of scifi awesomeness. I've followed Spore’s development for a long time, and feel licensed to talk about what I’ve seen and speculate irresponsibly about what I haven’t. (I should disclose at this point that periodically I work as a freelance game designer for Electronic Arts, which owns Maxis, which makes Spore.)
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