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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Fortnite is offering a free Stormtrooper outfit.

...if you link your Epic Games account to your MyDisney account, according to a blog post. It’s a “first step” ahead of the planned “universe” Disney and Epic are building together that’s tied to Fortnite. You’ll also be able to catch two episodes of Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld in Fortnite starting May 2nd, which is two days before the show debuts on Disney Plus.

Fortnite’s Star Wars-themed season kicks off on Friday.

A picture of the First Order Stormtrooper Outfit in Fortnite.
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Layoffs at Respawn.

The studio will “step away” from “two early-stage incubation projects” and is making “targeted team adjustments” across its Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi teams. That translates to layoffs, though it’s unclear how many people are affected, per an IGN report.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
General Grievous is coming to Fortnite.

Star Wars prequel memes are undefeated.

Andor’s second season traces the long arc of Star Wars’ revolutionary history

Andor’s final chapter feels like a series of mini-movies about how wars for freedom are won in fits and starts.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Here are some details about Ahsoka season 2.

Hayden Christensen will return to Ahsoka as Anakin Skywalker and rebel commander Admiral Ackbar will go “head-to-head” with Grand Admiral Thrawn, series creator Dave Filoni told the audience at Star Wars Celebration in Japan last night.

That’s according to Deadline, which also writes that the series will feature Rory McCann as the fallen Jedi Baylen Skol, following the May 2023 death of actor Ray Stevenson.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Darth Maul is getting an animated Disney Plus series.

It’s been a while since Darth Maul last appeared Star Wars Rebels, but during this year’s Star Wars Celebration, Luscasfilm announced that the horned Sith is set to star in a new animated Disney Plus series due out in 2026.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Now this is podracing.

Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset is a new podracing-focused experience for Meta’s Quest headsets that will be shown at Star Wars Celebration 2025.

You won’t actually race from the cockpit of a podracer, but that’s probably a good thing to prevent the game from being a “puke factory,” as one of my colleagues eloquently put it.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
A long time ago, in a toy bin far, far away…

Available for preorder today for $59.99 and shipping on May 1st, 2025, Lego has announced a 700-piece buildable version of the iconic Star Wars logo created by graphic designer Suzy Rice.

The black support structure supporting the yellow lettering is covered in detailed Lego greebling, while inside the letter T you’ll find a tiny hidden Star Destroyer pursuing the Tantive IV.

1/4Image: Lego
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Audio-Technica is making just 10 of these $6,800 Darth Vader headphones.

If you’re headed to Star Wars Celebration in Japan later this month, Audio-Technica has announced a pricey souvenir for you, as spotted by Notebookcheck. Unlike its Star Wars-themed wireless earbuds, only 10 of these ATH-AWSW DV headphones, featuring wooden ear cups adorned with images of Darth Vader made using traditional Japanese crafting techniques, will be available.

Each pair is priced at 990,000 yen, or around $6,817.

<em>The headphones feature 53-millimeter drivers and are compatible with hi-res audio sources, but feature no wireless capabilities.</em>
<em>The left ear cup features Darth Vader’s helmet.</em>
<em>The right ear cup features a silhouette of Darth Vader with his glowing lightsaber.</em>
<em>The ATH-AWSW DV come packaged in a wooden storage box featuring Star Wars design elements, and include an aluminum headphone stand.</em>
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The headphones feature 53-millimeter drivers and are compatible with hi-res audio sources, but feature no wireless capabilities.
Image: Audio-Technica
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
“No Baby Yoda, No Andor.”

While fans of Andor and The Mandalorian are busy arguing with one another about which is the superior Star Wars spinoff, Tony Gilroy is out here telling Empire what should be obvious to anyone with a basic understanding of how franchises work:

“The success of The Mandalorian gave us the platform to jump off. Their success is what would fuel the whole thing. I mean, no Baby Yoda, no Andor. Seriously. Don’t think that we don’t know that.”

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Andor welcomes you to the Resistance.

A Death Star is coming together in the latest trailer for Andor’s final season, and every member of the Resistance seems to know exactly what needs to be done to take the thing out.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Andor’s first three episodes are streaming on YouTube.

To get folks hyped up for the upcoming debut of Andor’s second season on Disney Plus April 22nd, Disney has put the show’s entire first season on Hulu and uploaded its first three episodes on YouTube. Additionally, on March 13th, Andor creator Tony Gilroy will host a live, hour-long rewatch event streamed on YouTube “with select talent,” which better be code for “Diego Luna and national treasure Kathryn Hunter.”

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
A little Andor tease.

Following the debut trailer for Andor’s second season, Lucasfilm has released another brief video, with some behind-the-scenes footage and a few new tidbits — including Diego Luna in some cool sci-fi sunglasses. The show starts streaming on Disney Plus on April 22nd.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Kathleen Kennedy is reportedly planning to leave Lucasfilm.

Puck reports that Kennedy, who has steered franchises like Star Wars and Indiana Jones since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, has informed the studio and others that she will step down by the end of 2025.

In 2023, Kennedy announced three new Star Wars films before murkier reports appeared last year about a new trilogy, and we just saw a new trailer for Andor season two. If there is a change at the top, then it could come with some clarity about the series’ future on big and small screens alike.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
KOTOR and KOTOR II are currently free on Epic’s mobile games store.

You can add Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I and II to your library until March 20th, Epic says.

The store is available worldwide on Android but only in the EU on iOS.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Bandai’s new Star Wars Tamagotchi makes you responsible for raising Vader.

Following Grogu and R2-D2 versions, Bandai’s latest Star Wars collaboration turns Anakin Skywalker into a digital pet. But no matter how you choose to raise him with regular feedings and even lightsaber training, the Tamagotchi version of Anakin is always destined for the dark side and will inevitably grow into one of ten different versions of Darth Vader.

The Bandai Darth Vader Tamagotchi inside its Vader helmet protective silicone case.
The Bandai Darth Vader Tamagotchi showing a pixelated cartoonish version of Darth Vader on screen.
The front and back of the Bandai Darth Vader Tamagotchi’s packaging.
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Bandai’s new Star Wars Darth Vader Tamagotchi will be available in March 2025 for $30, and will include a protective silicone case shaped like Vader’s helmet.
Image: Bandai
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
It’s the end of 2024, here’s footage of a cancelled Wii game.

It’s always fascinating to glimpse games that never actually came out, and the Free Radical Archive — a group dedicated to archiving the studio’s cancelled games — has provided just that for Star Wars Battlefront 3. According to the group, this footage comes from a Wii build of the game that was “made in the final week of development.”

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
DJI’s new drone design is right out of Star Wars.

I’ve never seen a drone like this before. Fold-out bicycle wheels, complete with spokes... and it turns into an AT-AT walker when you look at it from the front! Leak courtesy of Jasper Ellens.

AT-AT, anyone?
AT-AT, anyone?
Image via Jasper Ellens
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The bear is now a Hutt.

Jeremy Allen White will be in The Mandalorian & Grogu as Rotta the Hutt, the son of Jabba the Hutt, Variety and Deadline report. Okay.

Skeleton Crew is a kid-friendly reminder of who Star Wars is for

Disney Plus’ latest Star Wars series is trying to speak directly to a new generation of young fans.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The Skeleton Crew kids are living the dream.

Even if Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’s “The Goonies, but in space” premise doesn’t sound like it’s up your alley, you gotta admit that this kid’s all-terrain hover bike is sick as hell. If this is the kind of heat the show’s bringing when it premieres tomorrow, it might be something really special.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
“Difficult to see; always in motion is the future.”

Disney has pulled a Star Wars movie set for December 18th, 2026 from its upcoming film schedule, Variety reports. Ice Age 6 is now set to premiere that day.

The Mandalorian & Grogu is still scheduled for May 22nd, 2026. And an untitled Star Wars movie is still set for December 17th, 2027. There’s also a new film trilogy in the works.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Today I’m toying with the Twistsaber, a 3D-printed marvel.

The Twistsaber is exactly what it sounds like — a lightsaber prop you twist to extend and retract, with an ingenious nesting screw design that makes it open and close incredibly fast. The files aren’t free, and it doesn’t light up, but there’s nothing else quite like it.

Also see: the self-retracting Goliath Power Saber, which nearly became an official Star Wars toy.