Star Wars

A Surprise Villain Gets Involved In Star Wars: Clone Wars

Fans have been spying on the Doctor Who filming, and gotten a glimpse at a villain that nobody knew was returning… until now. We also have a couple of clips from next week’s Lost, which give away a plot twist that you probably did see coming. Plus there are intriguing new details about X-Files 2,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Eight of the Oddest Inspirations for the Coolest Science Fiction Machines

Some of the most awesome science fiction machines ever conceived for film, like the turbo-tank AT-ATs from Empire Strikes Back, were inspired by things the concept designers saw every day. You may already know that George Lucas was allegedly inspired to create the AT-ATs by these cargo lifters at the Port of Oakland — but…

Movies Annalee Newitz

The Toughest SciFi Soldiers For Your Squad

The aliens are invading and you want to assemble a crack squad of commandos to fight the tough battles and serve as human meatshields. But where can you find the best commandos in the galaxy? It’s time to mine science fiction history for some of the steeliest break-your-face soliders so you can sleep easy when…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Skywalker Last Supper Painting Made With 69,550 Star Wars Frames

This is what you get when you capture 69,550 full resolution frames from the six Star Wars movies and combine them with a version of DaVinci’s Last Supper on a PC with mosaic-making software and a custom matlab-based algorithm. The 262-megapixel mosaic (24,168 x 10,864 pixels) took two weeks to complete, including 30 hours of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Secrets Of Gondry’s Utopia And Star Wars’ Dystopia

Here’s a new clip of awesome train-jumping action, from plague-ravaged thriller Doomsday, which opens Friday. Two more clips below the fold show car-bezerkering, plus Malcolm McDowell giving away what may be a major plot point. In this morning’s spoiler roundup, we also have a new hint about the direction of the PG-13 live-action Star Wars…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Finally, Luke Skywalker’s Jesus Qualities Are Recognized

You thought you had too much time on your hands, but did you ever spend two weeks making a mosaic version of The Last Supper starring characters from Star Wars, made up from 69,000 stills from the six Star Wars movies? Exactly. See it in more detail under the jump. As the creator of the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Will A Computer-Generated Anakin Be Less Robotic?

A new poster for Star Wars: Clone Wars just came out, and it gives a good look at how Obi-Wan and Anakin will bring their game faces to that long stretch of battles between the second and third Star Wars prequels. Click through to see the full poster — and to find out why Hayden…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A Brief History Of Star Wars Video Games

With Star Wars: The Force Unleashed coming out later this year, it’s a perfect time to look at the history of LucasArts video games. Unfortunately, the long road of Star Wars tie-in games hasn’t always been pretty. We’ve come a long way since the old 8-bit games of 1983, and here are some of the…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Yoda Strikes A Pose In Clone Wars

The Yoda in the new Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series will be a mix between the Empire Strikes Back puppet and the CGI creature from the prequels, judging from this concept art. His ears are based on the puppet, but he’ll have the CGI version’s ability to go from hobbling to bouncing around with…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Robots That Launched The Cute-Bot Revolution

Wall-E may be the cutest lil robot ever to hit our screens, but he’s also the latest in a long line. It seems like wherever you go in scifi, you have to step over a cute chirpy little bot, who whistles, or tweets out a little catchphrase — including R2D2 from Star Wars, Twiki from…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Fans Vote For Best SF Movie, Have No Taste

More proof that today’s generation of whippersnappers either have very bad memories or are easily confused by Keanu Reeves comes in the form of Rankopedia’s democratically-created list of the Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time. I have no problem with The Empire Strikes Back trumping Star Wars, or the surprise placement of the awesome Children…

io9 Graeme McMillan

R2-D2 PC Case Mod Warps Us Into Hyperspace

Our obsession with everyone’s (except Porkins’) favorite astromech is well known, but this R2-D2 case is probably the best designed PC ever on its own. In fact, it looks like the only thing that could replace a steampunked Mac mini on my watch. More pics after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/porkins-b3-3r-astrokeg-lego-droid-mixes-our-three-favo-337252 Up close and personal it has…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

What Franchise Should Joss Whedon Take Over?

We’re still sad that we’ll never get to see Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman movie. After all, he’s created some of the most memorable science fiction universes, including the space-western Firefly and his forthcoming programmable-amnesiac show Dollhouse. We’d still like to see Joss put his auteur-mojo to work on someone else’s universe. Which longstanding science fiction…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The “Castle Thunder” Noise that Rocked a Thousand Movies

On Friday we told you about the pervasive use of the Wilhelm Scream through movies, tv shows, and video games, but today we bring you something even closer to the hearts of science fiction history: Castle Thunder. It’s been used to bring assembled body parts back to life, to send people back to the future,…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Saturday Art Project: K-3PO Papercraft

What are you doing today? Nothing. You’re sitting around reading Gizmodo. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that—thanks for stopping by.) But why not be productive with your day and build this K-3PO papercraft model? (You can F5 Gizmodo in the background.) Craft Tip: spray paint the finished version gold and everyone will think you…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Why You’ve Already Heard Science Fiction’s Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream

You’ve probably heard the Wilhelm Scream dozens of times in different movies and television shows without realizing it, but it’s one of those things that once you hear, you’ll always be able to identify it afterwards. It’s now become an in-joke amongst sound editors who try to insert it into their films whenever there’s a…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Rumored Star Wars Game Has Stretchy Ships

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…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Who Has The Biggest Power Generator In Space?

It takes a lot of energy to zip around the stars standing akimbo in your rolled-down boots. So the best battlecruisers and starships have really powerful energy sources. But what’s the most powerful spaceship or station, in terms of energy output? This isn’t just an idle question, because we’ll need to know which fictional technology…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Death Star Hotel in Azerbaijan Is No Moon

This 521-foot-high hotel is coming to Baku, Azerbaijan, either to host a bunch of Imperial forces or obliterate the local population with a giant death ray. They call it “Full Moon” but they are not fooling us: this is a fully armed, fully operational battle station. And it shall be destroyed before it’s too late,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Exclusive Han Solo Carbonite Desk Info and Gallery

Click to viewWho wouldn’t want a desk with Han Solo encased in carbonite? We checked in with Tom Spina Designs, the company that created this one-off custom-order desk, and found out that 1) it’s incredibly solid—it’s constructed out of steel—and 2) those lights on the side create mood lighting when admiring your human prize. Hit…

Tech News Jason Chen

A Surprise Villain Gets Involved In Star Wars: Clone Wars

Eight of the Oddest Inspirations for the Coolest Science Fiction Machines

The Toughest SciFi Soldiers For Your Squad

Skywalker Last Supper Painting Made With 69,550 Star Wars Frames

Secrets Of Gondry’s Utopia And Star Wars’ Dystopia

Finally, Luke Skywalker’s Jesus Qualities Are Recognized

Will A Computer-Generated Anakin Be Less Robotic?

A Brief History Of Star Wars Video Games

Yoda Strikes A Pose In Clone Wars

The Robots That Launched The Cute-Bot Revolution

Fans Vote For Best SF Movie, Have No Taste

R2-D2 PC Case Mod Warps Us Into Hyperspace

What Franchise Should Joss Whedon Take Over?

The “Castle Thunder” Noise that Rocked a Thousand Movies

Saturday Art Project: K-3PO Papercraft

Why You’ve Already Heard Science Fiction’s Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream

Rumored Star Wars Game Has Stretchy Ships

Who Has The Biggest Power Generator In Space?

Death Star Hotel in Azerbaijan Is No Moon

Exclusive Han Solo Carbonite Desk Info and Gallery

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