Star Wars

  • Lunch Break Let’s Play – Star Wars Battlefront 2 Again

    Ben and Aadil are back playing some more Star Wars Battlefront 2 over Ben’s lunch break. Will they be as successful as last time or was it just beginners’ luck?...
  • Silence in Star Wars

    The Star Wars franchise has some of the most famous sound effects and music ever produced, so it’s a bold choice whenever it instead embraces silence. It’s surprising how often John Williams’ iconic music disappears from the films to allow the sound design to tell the story, whether the...
  • Tanked Up 247 – Raiding Tiny Lands

    On the show this week Aadil, Lucy and Ben have all played Tiny Lands from Hyper Three Studio and have a detailed discussion. Before this the show kicks off with Aadil’s thoughts on Hexia. Then after Ben has been playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Lucy finished Crash...
  • My issue with modern Star Wars video games

    Star Wars is a huge franchise, a franchise I am particularly fond of. I’ve loved it since being a kid. We wore out the taped TV versions, full of Christmas adverts, that were our only copy of the original trilogy. We almost destroyed the, now collector’s piece, Kenner Millennium...
  • My Hopes for Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

    With the success of The Mandalorian and the announcement of countless other series in the works, the future of Star Wars is streaming. Yet a couple of those old-fashioned motion pictures they used to have in the olden days are also being developed, starting with Rogue Squadron in 2023....
  • Geek Out Weakly 6 – The Mandalorian Season 2 (pt. 2)

    Join Ben and Aadil and special guest Dave Wyatt this week as they discuss the second half of The Mandalorian Season 2, as well as backdoor pilot a handful of new podcasts… Our theme song is by captiveportalmusic, used under the CC ShareAlike license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)....
  • The Mandalorian Season 2 Finale Review

    The Mandalorian season 2 has now concluded and what a journey it was. While not perfect, the show expanded in scope and connected to disparate parts of the canon, all while maintaining a strong and emotional core with the relationship between the eponymous hero and his little green friend....
  • Questions and Hopes for the Future of Star Wars

    Last week on Disney’s Investor Day, the future of Star Wars, along with Marvel and many other Disney projects, was solidified. In short, there’s a hell of a lot of it coming. We may be three years out from the next big screen Star Wars experience, but there’s an...
  • Geek Out Weakly 4 – The Mandalorian Season 2 (pt. 1)

    This week Ben and Aadil return to the gritty Star Wars world of The Mandalorian. We discuss the first half, four episodes, of season 2. Brief rundowns, favourite scenes and our hopes and dreams for the back half of this gripping show. Geek Out Weakly is live on twitch...