Right now you can get 14 Star Wars games for 80% off - including some absolute classicsApr 12, 2023 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunStar Wars Celebration was held last weekend and the much-anticipated sequel Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is speeding toward us on April 28th. All of this nostalgia and excitement means there’s still fun to be had in a galaxy far far away, and luckily, there’s a 14-game Star Wars bundle on Fanatical to celebrate. It's currently enjoying a deep 80% discount for a limited time. Read moreYou can add Jedi Academy to the list of audacious VR portsOct 2, 2022 - PC Gamers shared by the Flat2VR modding community, creator Simon "DrBeef" Brown is in the early stages of creating a VR port of the classic FPS/Lightsaber duel simulator, Jedi Academy. Or, as the learned know it, Star Wars: Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Academy... Read more.Star Wars Racer, Republic Commando bundle listed on AmazonSep 12, 2021 - VG247A listing for a Star Wars Racer and Star Wars Republic Commando bundle for Nintendo Switch and PS4 recently appeared on Amazon, suggesting that a rerelease of the two popular Star Wars games is making their way to Switch and PS4. Amazon listed this potential bundle for a November 16 release, developed by Aspyr and published by THQ Nordic. This bundle continues a renaissance of sorts for beloved Star Wars games released in generations past coming back to modern consoles. The Jedi Knight games were rereleased in 2019 and appeared in a bundle some time later. Meanwhile, Star Wars Episode 1: Racer and Star Wars Republic Commando followed suit individually in 2020, so it makes sense that they would also be bundled like this. It’s a good time to be a Star Wars game fan. Aspyr and Lucasfilm Games recently announced a remake of the seminal Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Star Wars Squadrons and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order were both well received upon release. Meanwhile, we’re getting an open world game from the same team that brought us The Division. And though it’s rumored to be happening, we don’t have any firm details on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 2 yet. But if the rumors are true, it will add to an already loaded release schedule for Star Wars games that are down the pipeline. Read moreVertex looks like the Star Wars: Jedi Knight follow-up we never gotSep 8, 2020 - PCGamesNWhile there has been a notable uptick in Star Wars games in recent times, none of them offer the online spectacle of lightsaber duelling that the old Star Wars: Jedi Knight games provides. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order comes closest, but its duels are few and far between and play more like a poor imitation of Sekiro than Jedi Knight's pioneering mouse-based combat. With Fallen Order so clearly occupying the same niche and the last Jedi Knight game gathering cobwebs back in 2003, it's all but certain that we won't get another - at least, not from an established development studio. But that's all the incentive fans and modders need to get creative. Vertex is one such project that aims to recreate the freeform melee combat that so many people spent years honing in duels against each other online. "The original inspiration was that I was a huge fan of the combat in Jedi Outcast," the project's lead Chris, who wishes to remain on first name terms, tells us. "I played that game religiously for a few years after it came out and it was great fun online. As the years went by nobody seemed to want to make games with a similar style of combat, which was very strange to me. So I decided to try it myself." Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: How a Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy mod became a 16-year passion projectStar Wars fighting game mod Jedi Fighter turns Jedi Academy into a 2D brawlerHave You Played Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy?Sep 18, 2018 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunHave You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. This is one of the less celebrated of the classic Star Wars games (now decreed to be non-canonical by the House of Mouse). Don’t get me wrong; it’s no KotOR or Jedi Outcast, but there’s a lot to like under the hood of Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Or, possibly, inside the tauntaun. (more…) Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy source code released in tribute to LucasArtsApr 3, 2013 - ShacknewsWhile Star Wars games have become increasingly shoddy over the years, they were once consistently pleasing. In memory of the late, great LucasArts, shut down by Disney, Raven has released the source code of two such games from the Jedi Knight series, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. If you missed them in the early noughties, they were the first solid ways to have decent multiplayer lightsaber battles. "We loved and appreciated the experience of getting to make Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy for LucasArts," Raven said in a statement provided to Kotaku. "As a gift to the persistently loyal fanbase for our Jedi games and in memory of LucasArts, we are releasing the source code for both games for people to enjoy and play with." The source code, based upon id Software's Quake III: Team Arena engine, is released under the GNU GPLv2 license for anyone. Given what typically happens when developers release engine source, we can most likely expect to see updated versions with fixes and support for fancy modern graphical effects, at a minimum. Download the the Jedi Outcast source code here and Jedi Academy's there. Raven does note that it may take some tinkering to get things working with the finished game's assets. Which, by the way, have not been open-sourced, so no, the games are not now free. Now Available on Mac - Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi AcademyJan 24, 2013 - AnnouncementStar Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is now available on the Mac! Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Interact with famous Star Wars characters in many classic Star Wars locations as you face the ultimate choice: fight for good and freedom on the light side or follow the path of power and evil to the dark side.
