During the Star Wars Spectacular event earlier on today, LucasArts announced that the The Force Unleashed will be seeing further expansion this Fall through a new downloadable level that’s promises to take players to the famous Tattooine, meeting characters like Boba Fett and Obi-wan Kenobi.

The mission begins at the end of the story of The Force Unleashed and re-imagines the Star Wars Saga as if the Secret Apprentice had killed Darth Vader and taken his place at the Emperor’s side, becoming the most powerful Sith Lord in the universe.

The story picks up as the Emperor sends his new apprentice to the planet Tatooine to dispatch Obi-Wan Kenobi – who has been hiding on the planet ever since the events of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. During their hunt for the reclusive Jedi, players will also explore the depths of Jabba the Hutt’s palace and encounter notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett.

In addition, LucasArts also announced Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – Ultimate Sith Edition, a special new version of the game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself.

Available this holiday season at retail stores, The Ultimate Sith Edition will include all of the original missions found in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed as well as content previously only available via download and an all-new exclusive bonus level.

If you were wondering if Burnout and Need For Speed were going to merge to make one total new kind of video game, they aren’t, John Riccitiello told Kotaku during E3. However, he did say something about the Burnout developers working on a new Need for Speed title.

When being asked if EA is planning to merge Burnout and Need For Speed together, Riccitiello told Kotaku NO but he did confrim that the Burnout team at EA’s Criterion Games, led by Alex Ward, were working on the next Need for Speed title.

“Alex is one of the people in the industry I would analogize to the great filmmakers, etc..” Riccitiello said. “He is a true creative visionary. We had a great fight about what the next Need For Speed would be like. Of course, he gets to win because it’s his call. It’s not that I’m without an opinion on it.”

However, that still sounded like a possible merger NFS-Burnout.

“I don’t think you can fold Burnout into Need for Speed, because a lot of people like Burnout,” he said. “We don’t have a plan right now for a separate major launch on Burnout, because the team doing it is working on a revolutionary take on Need for Speed. I don’t know, if Paramount, in addition to owning Star Trek owned Star Wars, which isn’t the way it is, I don’t think you’d merge them.”

You probablely have  heard the rumors that LucasArts are hard at work developing another title based on the surprisingly good Star Wars television show, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and you know what, they are correct.

The game is entitled Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes, or The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes for short, and it will take place between seasons 1 and 2 of the animated Clone Wars series. It will also feature a wide range of playable heroes, including Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, and some of the clone trooper characters.

In addition, the game will have a cooperative mode were you can play can with a friend of your choice. Expect the game on September 15 for all this gen systems.

[EW Exclusive: First Look at the Next 'Star Wars' Game via Entertainment Weekly]

LucasArts has many games featuring the name Star Wars, but what makes this game any different then the others? Well, for one thing the name speaks for it’s self, with a name like that you wont need any advertisements because it has everything to with releasing the Force. Today, LucasArts revealed that it’s recently release demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has been download over 1 Million times on the Xbox 360 via Xbox live. This means that this game has been downloaded faster then the 360 original, Too Human. In addition to the record-breaking achievement LucasArts has revealed that the demo been downloaded more than 2.3 million times worldwide to date on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

In a video interview Matt Shell, Marketing Manager at LucasArts, confirmed that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be will be unleashing a demo via Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network in August.

The demo will feature the special version of the Tie Fighter Construction Facility level, the demo will also feature very special powers and a special ending that will not be featured in the full game.

At it’s midnight showing The Dark Knight grossed in an estimated $18.5 million, that’s the most ever for midnight showing in a long time. The last movie to hold this record was Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith, which grossed $16.9 million. And the lastest movie to hold this record was Spider-Man 3 which made 59.8 million in it’s opening day and by the looks of things The Dark Knight will be breaking that very soon. While some experts say that this movie is expected to gross $170 million, it may have done that by the time this story is posted.

To see what the NYTimes had to say about the movie check out this review of The Dark Knight.

Star Wars: Battlefront III ,as of right now, looks like it maybe a reality as somewhat states current rumors on the net. While it is in development at Free Radical, a Amazon.com listing provides that it will be launched on every major console. Everyone will have to wait until the coming up E3 event next week for the official announcement from Lucas Arts. This is great news for fans of Star Wars and it will also be a good chance for a new generation a chance to uncover the series of great quality gaming , so just wait you’ll see!

There was a rumor going around that Kratos would be testing his blade against Darth Vader and his secret apprentice from the Star Wars universe in the upcoming PlayStation 3 version of Soul Calibur IV. The rumor wasn’t so far fetched, mainly because in other Soul Calibur games featured players for different universe’s like Link on the GameCube version and Heihachi on the PS2 version.  However thanks to a podcast made by 1UP the rumor was quickly smashed , stating that Kratos will be absent from Namco’s upcoming game. But, there still is the strong possible that he could be included in future planned downloadable content.

Let’s just hope that they do included Kratos in upcoming downloadable content for the game because i know there alot of people who can’t wait too play as him.

Remember when LucasArts assured us that the layoffs wouldn’t affect the development of  the upcoming Star Wars game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed . According to Joystiq, the LucasArts layoffs included some of the members of the Force Unleashed team. Joystiq happen to talk to one of the many ex-member of the team he/she told them that “the layoffs came just as work on the game was wrapping up.” Right now, the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is un-delayed and is still set for a September 16 release date.

Namco Bandai  has revealed new screenshots of there newest character for Soulcalibur IV, Darth Vader’s Secret Apprentice. The Secret Apprentice will join other character from the star wars like Yoda and Darth Vader in the upcoming Soulcalibur game. You will be able to play as the Darth Vader’s Secret Apprentice on the PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, PS2, Nintendo DS and Wii.

Not too long ago Lucasarts announced that you will be able to play as Darth Vader in The Force Unleashed. Now, we have found some cool gameplay of Darth Vader from in the game. The Force Unleashed follows the story of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice as he trys to get rid of remaining Jedi. The is set between Episode III and Episode IV, which happens to be dark times in the Star Wars universe. The game is set to release this September.

Good news, Lucasarts has announced Darth Vader , fictional character from the Star Wars universe, will be playable in The Force Unleashed. But, you will only be available to play as him in first level of the game, and from then you’ll have to take the role of Vader’s apprentice.

The Force Unleashed follows the story of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice as he trys to get rid of remaining Jedi. This is set between Episode III and Episode IV, which happens to be dark times in the Star Wars universe. The game is set to release this September.

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