Star Wars

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 Mar 10

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 Mar 7

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 Mar 7

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 Mar 4

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 Mar 4

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 Mar 4

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 Mar 3

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 Mar 3

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 Mar 1

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 Feb 29

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 Feb 28

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 Feb 28

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 Feb 28

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 Feb 26

3-Year-Old Summarizes Star Wars

We’ve written our share of words on Star Wars, Star Wars LEGO, Star Wars lightsabers, Star Wars lightsaber clubs, and Star Wars iPhones…but even still, we’re not as prolifically spoken as this 3-year-old girl who recounts the Star Wars to her father. https://gizmodo.com/using-hundreds-of-lego-star-wars-mini-spaceships-to-cre-352245 Later, it’s he who tells the story behind her filming: She explained…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 25

Revolution Synthesizer R2 Looks Like Death Star Control Panel, Not R2

Future Retro’s Revolution Synthesizer R2 looks amazing; we completely have no use for a synthesizer, but we totally want one. With a complete aluminum construction, perfectly contrasting gun gray and white colors, as well as a smattering of blue LEDs all over, this synthesizer makes us moist in the most clichéd way possible. If that…

Tech News Haroon Malik Feb 24

Hunka Hunka Burning Leia at Wondercon

Seen on the mezzanine, without any particular context whatsoever. Someone, somewhere, is having an obscure pop-cultural fetish fulfilled by this image at this very moment.

io9 Graeme McMillan Feb 23

How Would A Stormtrooper Get Naked?

Annalee is asking costumed fans roaming the halls of WonderCon one crucial question: How would they strip out of their costumes if they had to get naked really, really fast? She caught up with the an intrepid member of the Imperial Stormtrooper squad, complete with his own supply of Nerds candy. Stormtroopers have to eat…

io9 Kevin Kelly Feb 23

io9 Invades The Halls Of LucasFilm & LucasArts

LucasArts invited io9 out to their shiny new(ish) digs located inside The Presidio in San Francisco to take a look at three of their upcoming science fiction related video games. Right outside the entrance, was a requisite Yoda fountain, sagely watching over everyone who came in. Read on to find out about the video gaming…

io9 Kevin Kelly Feb 23

Will Wright Wants To Control Your Miniature Worlds

Video game designer and visionary Will Wright, inventor of Sim City and The Sims, spoke spoke last night at the Mezzanine Bar in San Francisco, but not about his upcoming evolution game Spore. But he did have a geekgasm about science fiction, miniature worlds, and the future of the user/viewer/gamer experience. Plus he referenced Godzilla,…

io9 Kevin Kelly Feb 22

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

3-Year-Old Summarizes Star Wars

Revolution Synthesizer R2 Looks Like Death Star Control Panel, Not R2

Hunka Hunka Burning Leia at Wondercon

How Would A Stormtrooper Get Naked?

io9 Invades The Halls Of LucasFilm & LucasArts

Will Wright Wants To Control Your Miniature Worlds

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