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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Sells 5.7 Million Units Worldwide (News)

Feb 11, 2009

Gamasutra writes: "LucasArts's Star Wars: The Force Unleashed sold 5.7 units worldwide across all platforms since releasing in September, making it the fastest-selling Star Wars game in history.

Several versions of the title were shipped, with LucasArts developing editions for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; Krome Studios for PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Wii; n-Space for DS; and Universomo for iPod Touch, iPhone, N-Gage, and other mobiles."

Seeing Contradictions In Reviews, 'Star Wars' Game Producer Weighs Consumer Feedback (News)

Oct 13, 2008

MTV Multiplayer's Stephen Totilo reports:

"Who should a game creator listen to?

Which criticisms of their game should they most take to heart?

When I interviewed "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" producer Haden Blackman recently about the game's upcoming downloadable content, I asked if we could chat about the reception that game has received. The game has sold more than 1.5 million copies, so it's popular. It's reviews were okay.

The game's story has been widely praised in reviews and among all the gamers who've played it that I've spoken to. Its gameplay hasn't been as broadly well-received, though it has fans as well.

But with the feedback being so mixed, which responses can you trust? This is what Blackman has decided..."

Gamefly Charts: Star Wars On Top (News)

Sep 25, 2008

GamerDeals.net writes:

"For the week of September 22, 2008, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed takes the top spot on the cross-platform Gamefly Top Ten 'Most Queued' list. Following close behind is Saints Row 2 (PS3/Xbox 360). Wario Land: Shake It! is at the top of the Nintendo Wii Queue as well...

Queue up the complete Gamefly Top 10 most requested lists:"

Lightsaber Stylus for DS Released (News)

Sep 17, 2008

Gameplayer has some images and some information live regarding a specialized Stylus for the DS in honour of the release of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Kind of cool.

Join The Force Unleashed Launch Event Tonight, Enter to Win Prizes Now (News)

Sep 16, 2008

Haden Blackman on the PlayStation Blog writes, "Hello PlayStation Blog readers!

I wanted to take a quick moment to remind everyone about the launch party we're hosting at Best Buy (1717 Harrison St. in San Francisco) tonight. From 7pm to midnight we'll have the game available to play early, tons of great photo opportunities, and a chance to meet the cast and crew. Please stop by and say "hi" if you live in or around San Francisco; we'd love to meet you."

More after the jump.

The Force Unleashed in 90 seconds! (Feature)

Sep 16, 2008

This article and its accompanying video contain spoilers. You’ve been warned. If you’re curious about what happens in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, but don’t want to spend more than a minute thinking about it, we’ve got you covered. ...

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Cheats Exclusively Revealed (News)

Sep 15, 2008

Check out all the cool cheat codes revealed for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed by CheatCC.com -- and they are going to reveal even more in the coming days!

New Game Releases for the Week of September 14, 2008 (News)

Sep 13, 2008

GamerDeals.net writes:

"The summer drought is officially over as a busy new release week is upon us with quality releases on every platform. The highlights this week include Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (PC), Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, DS), Rock Band 2 (Xbox 360), and Dragon Quest IV (Nintendo DS).

Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of September 14, 2008 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!"

Gamefly Charts: Mercenaries 2 On Top (News)

Sep 11, 2008

Gamerdeals.net writes:

"For the week of September 11, 2008, Mercenaries 2 (PS3/Xbox 360/PS2) takes the top spot on the cross-platform Gamefly Top Ten 'Most Queued' list. Following close behind is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3/Xbox 360/Wii/PS2/DS/PSP)."

Queue up the complete Gamefly Top 10 most requested lists:

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Gnarliest Force kills EXCLUSIVE! (Video)

Sep 11, 2008

The Star Wars saga takes a dark turn in this third-person actioner, which takes place between the trilogies and casts you as Darth Vader's secret apprentice - a brutally powerful force user charged with hunting and killing Jedi.

GameTrailers Unveils Star Wars Launch Center (News)

Sep 10, 2008

GameTrailers has announced that they have launched their new Star Wars: The Force Unleashed launch center. Interested gamers can also head to the launch center to see a variety of game videos and the previously released retrospectives.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - TV spot (Video)

Sep 10, 2008

You'll Like Being a Sith Lord Apprentice, Guaranteed (News)

Aug 17, 2008

NextGen Player writes:

"Star Wars: The Force Unleashed looks like it will be a good game. An amazing game even. It looks like EB Games Canada agrees, as they have a Gaming Guarantee promotion on their website right now that where they're banking you'll like the game so much, that they are willing to give you full trade-in credit within one week of purchase. As usual, this offer is only given to people who pre-order their copy."

Toys R Us midnight Star Wars: Clone Wars event, life-size action figure giveaway (News)

Jul 23, 2008

From the article:

"As if fans really need another reason to get psyched about the upcoming animated Star Wars: Clone Wars film, Toys R Us is having an in-store midnight sales event featuring Clone Wars products and also giving away four five-feet tall Clone Wars action figures."

Toys R Us is also offering free shipping on select items including many LucasArts videogames including Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Thrillville and Lego: Indiana Jones. Several videogames include a buy-one-get-one-half-price offer. Also:

"To help promote the event, Toys R Us is also giving away four life-size (as in five feet tall) action figures. Depending on the week, you could win a large-scale Anakin, Captain Rex, Obi-Wan or Ahsoka figure. You can enter once per day via the "Galactic Star Wars Sweepstakes" web site."

Star Wars video game bridges gap between films (News)

Jul 17, 2008

Consider it "Star Wars III and a Half" - complete with a pivotal plot twist. When LucasArts releases "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" on Sept. 16, the video game will serve as George Lucas' official median between 2005's "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" and 1977's "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope." In the game, players become Darth Vader's secret apprentice and use The Force to hunt the remaining Jedi.

Force Unleashed Launch Trailer to Debut Wednesday (News)

Jul 8, 2008

LucasArts has announced that the debut trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will debut this Wednesday at 6am Pacific Time on Entertainment Weekly's website.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Screenshots)

Jul 7, 2008

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Web doc 5 (Video)

Jun 18, 2008

The Force Unleashed gets comic & novel adaptation (News)

Jun 16, 2008

Proving you don't need to make more Star Wars movies to keep the merchandising vehicle moving, Titan Books has confirmed that The Force Unleashed will receive both an official novelisation and comic book adaptation in the next couple of months.

From August 22, Star Wars fans - or anyone, for that matter - will be able to buy a graphic novel or a hardback book chronicling the story of Darth Vader's secret apprentice.

Hopefully, ...

The Force is overrated: FACT! (Feature)

Jun 4, 2008

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is hitting stores on September 16th and that’s all cool and lovely. But, as you prepare to get your Sith on, why not pause for a moment and consider this for a curve ball…The Force is overrated: FACT!

But it’s an energy field, you say, created by all living things. It surrounds and penetrates living beings. It binds the whole galaxy together for god’s sake. Well, that’s as ...

LucasArts confirms: No multiplayer for PS3/360 Force Unleashed (News)

May 16, 2008

Phil Meza reports: "Star Wars The Force Unleashed, LucasArts' first current-gen adventure in the post - Hayden Christensen saga, has been slowly lifting its curtain over the past few months as we've gotten word on a release date and more. The Wii version's Duel Mode has been getting its fair shar of press lately, and the PSP/DS's wi-fi play is sure to notice soon; but the multiplayer component for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions (which was confirmed nearly a year ago), has been on media blackout."

LucasArts: 'We're not shutting the door on PC' (News)

May 12, 2008

LucasArts is "not shutting the door on PC", despite the lack of a PC version of upcoming Star Wars game The Force Unleashed.

Speaking in an interview with VideoGamer.com last week, Cameron Suey, producer of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of The Force Unleashed, said that LucasArts wasn't doing a PC version of one of the most anticipated Star Wars games in years because of the vast differences in power of PCs in people's homes.

He said: "The PC being the gaming platform that it is, someone with a $4,000 high-end system would definitely be able to play the Euphoria, the DMM and really technical elements of the game. But someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have to turn all the settings down and it wouldn't be the same game.

"That said we're definitely not out of the PC market. It's just with our choice for this game, with the known quantity for the consoles, and every console is the same with the same processing power, it made sense for us to develop for those consoles."

LucasArts promises 'less and better' Star Wars games (News)

May 12, 2008

LucasArts intends to make "less and better" Star Wars games in the future, the company has told VideoGamer.com.

Speaking at a Star Wars: The Force Unleashed event in London last week, Cameron Suey, the producer in charge of the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game, admitted that some Star Wars games "probably weren't up to the quality bar that we would have liked" but that LucasArts was now focused on telling "singular, excellent Star Wars stories with engaging and innovative gameplay and cutting edge technology".

The Force Unleashed the 'greatest' Star Wars game ever (News)

May 12, 2008

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is the "greatest" Star Wars game ever made, according to the game's producer.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com at an Activision/LucasArts event in London last week, Cameron Suey, the producer in charge of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, said that in his opinion The Force Unleashed, which sees you play Darth Vader's previously unknown secret apprentice in an adventure that takes place in between the two movie trilogies, has the greatest story of any Star Wars game.

"You know what, I'll say it, it's for me, and greatest applies to value judgement and opinion, it's definitely the greatest Star Wars game. I'm of course biased!" said Suey.

Resistance 2 Trailer on April 11 GTTV? (News)

Apr 6, 2008

Geoff Keighley promised some information on The Force Unleashed segments that will be airing on Spike and now He has it. Here's when you can tune into Spike over the next week to hear more about the game. He will be hosting a series of short interstitials with Haden Blackman from LucasArts to reveal more game details:

- April 6 at 7:58 p.m. ET/PT Â¿ between the premiere of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith

- April 11 at 10:52 p.m. ET/PT Â¿ At the end of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope

- April 12 at 12:00 a.m. ET/PT Â¿ throughout an episode of GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley filmed at LucasArts' headquarters in San Francisco

- April 12 at 5:06 p.m. ET/PT Â¿ before Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope

- April 13 at 5:06 p.m. ET/PT Â¿ before Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

If you miss these segments don't worry -- They will be putting them up on GameTrailers after they air.

Meantime, make sure you don't miss their April 11 episode (that's next Friday). It's our biggest GTTV yet. They will have SEVEN world exclusives in the show in high-definition! They will show you the Duel Mode in the Force Unleashed for the Wii, but they also have something special from their friends at Insomniac Games and Sony Computer Entertainment.

More news on Monday when details on the show hit this very site. Have a good weekend.

Geoff

Star Wars Force Unleashed Finally Dated (News)

Apr 4, 2008

Gameplayer are reporting that 'the seventh film' in the Star Wars series, the video game The Force Unleashed has finally received a release date.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed dated for Sept. 16 (News)

Apr 3, 2008

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be coming to the US on September 16 and Europe on September 19, LucasArts has confirmed. The game will launch in Southeast Asia/Australian on the 17th.

"Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is one of the most ambitious projects LucasArts has ever launched," said Peter Hirschmann of LucasArts.

"The combination of a great new Star Wars story with revolutionary new technology and game play means more ...

Star Wars game announcement next week (News)

Mar 30, 2008

GameTrailers has posted some info about an upcoming Star Wars announcement next week,

Geoff Keighley posted: "STAR WARS! Last week I went up to LucasArts for an exclusive behind the scenes look at the new game THE FORCE UNLEASHED. We'll be blowing it out on GTTV with a ton of exclusive footage and some very special announcements."

New Star Wars: The Force Unleashed details for the DS (News)

Mar 19, 2008

Fresh details on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed have appeared online, revealing the control schemes for the Nintendo DS version.

New Star Wars: The Force Unleashed details (News)

Mar 19, 2008

Fresh details on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed have appeared online, revealing the control schemes for the Nintendo DS version.According to reports, the game will use the control pad to move the central character and rely on the touch screen for attacks. Swipes with the stylus will cause your lightsaber to do a similar thing.The game will feature a fully 3D world, but includes 2D animated cutscenes instead of the in-game sequences other ...

Star Wars: Force Unleashed officially moved to September (News)

Mar 13, 2008

VG247:

"Activision just got back to us on a rumoured slip for Star Wars: Force Unleashed, saying the date had been moved some time ago.

"It actually moved to September a few months back," a spokesperson told videogaming247."

The Force Unleashed graphic novel coming (News)

Feb 19, 2008

Titan Books is publishing both a novel and a graphical novel based on LucasArts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.Both publications are due to hit before the game appears this summer. Both obviously follow the same storyline, which explores the period between Episodes III and IV where Darth Vader's the big bad daddy of the galaxy far, far away. "This action-adventure finds the Jedi order crushed under the hand of Emperor Palpatine and a new order ...

The Force Unleashed - updated impressions (Preview)

Jan 25, 2008

When it comes to the Star Wars universe, Haden Blackman is the most knowledgeable man alive (outside of George Lucas, of course). At one point in his career, he was the guy in charge of continuity across every single piece of Star Wars product in existence. Now, LucasArts has tapped his veritable font of wisdom and lore by making him the project lead for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which takes place during the tumultuous-but-unexplored years between Episodes III and IV. LucasArts invited us ...

Nintendo unveils first-half game lineup for Wii and DS (News)

Jan 16, 2008

Game giant promises at least 65 new Wii games and 80 new DS games in the first half of the year.

"Our momentum is not limited to one system or one game," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's marketing replacement for Perrin Kaplan. "We're going broad and bold in 2008, with something for every member of the family."

First-party highlights from the release list include Advance Wars: Days of Ruin and Crosswords for DS, with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, and Wii Fit headed to Nintendo's fifth-generation console.

CES: First details of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (News)

Jan 11, 2008

Some new details of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed from Ars Technica:

* Boss battles will be huge in scope, including a Rancor fight. There will be God of War-like button-tapping sections at the end of the battle, but it will only be for more points; you won't lose a battle by missing a button press

* There will be character and lightsaber customization, although you won't be able to dual-wield or have dual-bladed lightsabers

* The Wii version of the game will include a two-player duel mode where you can show off your lightsaber skills against a friend in the same room.

* The PSP version will contain classic scenes from other Star Wars movies with the more over-the-top force powers of Unleashed

2008's Most Wanted Games (News)

Dec 4, 2007

The new issue of HGZine has a complete rundown of 130 games set for release next year with the latest details and screens on the Top 50 picked to be the "ones to watch" for PSP and DS.

New Star Wars Force Unleashed details and screens (News)

Nov 2, 2007

Nov 2, 2007 Although very few solid facts are known about the game, Star Wars: The Forced Unleashed promises so much, and new info has started to trickle from the Jedi camp at LucasArts. Some of the locations featured in the game have been revealed. At one point you visit a TIE Fighter Construction Facility "sent [there] by Lord Vader to eliminate Master Kota, a fugitive Jedi General who has taken over the station with a band of his loyal ...

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed info deluge (News)

Sep 26, 2007

Sept 26, 2007 Two lengthy Star Wars: The Force Unleashed developer diaries take us behind the scenes of LucasArts' latest game in set in the galaxy far, far away. The videos feature a wealth of commentary from those involved with the game, along with footage. A whole host of topics are covered by the diaries, including the game's conception, aims and goals, characters and George Lucas' involvement with the project. You can check them out below: Courtesy of ...

Darth Vader's apprentice a bit too... nice? (News)

Sep 25, 2007

Sept 25, 2007 A new Star Wars: The Force Unleashed web documentary from the folks at LucasArts focuses on some of the game's central characters and, in particular, Darth Vader's secret pupil, known only as the Apprentice. We were absolutely pumped about taking charge of this mysterious new character and wreaking Sith-style misery on a massive scale across the galaxy, but after learning more about Vader's boy in training, we're a little less enthusiastic. He just seems like he's going to be a ...

E3 07: Force Unleashed in new trailer (News)

Jul 13, 2007

Star Wars: Force Unleashed is a fantastic idea. Forget all the morality bumf, the good-or-bad dilemma. Let's just get busy with the Force Lightning, Force Choke and Force grab a humoungous Star Destroyer from the sky and smash it into the ground for fun. Like in this new trailer. While the beginning is clearly not gameplay, the actual in-game antics still stand up well. It's a bit like Jedi Knight - one of, if not the best Star Wars games ever made. If LucasArts can create a fluid, ...

Star Wars: Force Unleashed delayed (News)

Mar 8, 2007

Lightsaber-loving Star Wars fans looking forward to the impressive physics-based Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will have longer to wait than expected. Despite being officially confirmed for a November 2007 release, the game's website now deems the game's availability as "TBD," with it now expected to arrive in ...

Force Unleashed website gives new details (News)

Feb 15, 2007

In the wake of details hitting on the new Star Wars game by developer LucasArts, The Force Unleashed, the company has set up an official website. Confirming a release for November 2007, the site features concept art, game details and an FAQ on the DMM (Digital Molecular Matter) and euphoria technology employed. Combined with Havoc physics, we're promised these "groundbreaking" technologies will "create true next-gen gameplay and the Force like it's never been seen or experienced before." PR ...

Official Star Wars: The Force Unleashed website goes live (News)

Feb 15, 2007

LucasArts has launched the website for their newly announced Star Wars title, The Force Unleashed.

Next-gen Star Wars revealed for PS3 and 360 (News)

Feb 12, 2007

The first details of LucasArts' PS3 and Xbox 360 Star Wars project have finally emerged, from the latest issue of Game Informer. It's called Star Wars: Force Unleashed and takes place between Episode III and Episode IV, when new Sith on the block Darth Vader is out to wipe the galaxy clean of runaway Jedi. As Vader's apprentice, you're on a secret mission to dive head-first into the forbidden Dark Side of the force, take out the emperor and rule the galaxy as master and apprentice. ...

Credits Easter Egg (Easter Egg)

Oct 2, 2008

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Cheats (Cheat)

Sep 29, 2008

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Codes (Cheat)

Sep 29, 2008

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Unlimited Force Energy (Cheat)

Sep 29, 2008

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