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A selection of episodes from Seth Green’s animated Star Wars sitcom will be exhibited at the soon-to-open Lucas Museum.

Not only were my fears of the roguelite loop unfounded, but the Burnout roots baked into developer Fuse Games’s DNA was joyously evident in every moment I spent on the track with Star Wars: Galactic Racer. And the times I wasn’t going hundreds of miles per hour when I was on foot did a great job of further Star Wars-ifying my experience. I’m incredibly optimistic about what I’ve seen from this long overdue spiritual successor to Episode 1: Pod Racer, and I can’t wait to play more of it.

The first batch not including Acer and Gigabyte will launch this fall.

There's a funny thing with video game genres in particular: a lot of them are based on just closely tracing the lines of preexisting games, only with a few small mechanical tweaks and a different-enough setting over the top. And few genres are quite as obvious in that regard as the XCOM-alike: a turn-based tactics game based on managing a small squad of permanently-killable allies through a series of close-quarters, grid-based combat encounters, before ducking out to do a bit of RPG-lite housework in some kind of base or mothership metagame. This is Star Wars: Zero Company, a game where you do

There are a rare few racing games as good as Burnout Paradise. You could argue there aren't any, though the competition for the number one spot is fierce. The game is such a classic it begs the question: Why hasn't anyone been able to make a racer quite as good since? Only a few people on this planet could answer such a question. Read more