Results tagged “star wars” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

The rather tedious wrangle over Youtube music videos (see posts below) has thrown a few interesting facts and arguments into the mix.

For one, it shows how badly the music industry is doing - because of the internet.

With everything available for free, sales have plummeted and they are frantically trying to claw back revenue through digital use of their products.
Unfortunately there is a huge gap between what they used to earn and what they can screw out of the internet, meaning the whole business is teetering on the edge.

But it is also fair to say that music itself is still massively popular.

In the coverage of the issue, it came to light that Leona Lewis, (pictured left) the former X Factor winner had music videos on Youtube which had garnered an incredible 84 MILLION hits.

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
Nintendo DS
LucasArts
£24.99

NOT set in any of the films, this title sees the Jedi on the trail of a missing consignment of lightsaber crystals.

Needless to say, this doesn't go as planned and they find themselves in conflict with a band of force-using women called the Nightsisters.

It's set before the final 'prequel' Revenge of the Sith, so all the Jedi are still around, allowing you to play as Anakin Skywalker with Obi-Wan Kenobi, or Ahsoka Tano with Mace Windu.

The developers have done their best to make the story as immersive as possible, with tons of cut scenes and dialogue somehow fitted onto the DS cart.

In a way it's better that the story doesn't take place in the films, making it more fresh and possibly better written than some of the turgid nonsense in the prequels.

The stylus controls work reasonably well in what is a fairly complex game for this method , although the combat is sometimes a bit hit and miss, as you try and hit the tiny opposing enemy in the right spot.

LucasArts has also stuck a fair amount of additional content and bonuses in which reward repeated play, adding to the longevity.

78 per cent

Ben Hurst

We all know that George Lucas famously 'revisited' Star Wars (subsequently rebranded 'A New Hope') with all manner of digital jiggery-pokery.

The screen was literally packed to capacity. Previously where stormtroopers had walked down an empty Mos Eisley side street, it hummed with dozens of tiny robots buzzing around their heads.

For my money, it was rather over the top, and only a couple of the shots were worth doing.

And as for Han shooting first in the confrontation with Greedo....let's just say I agree with certain internet users...

Anyway, one section not touched was the classic bit involving Luke's Red Squadron comrade Porkins. The salad-avoiding X-Wing pilot gets toasted by turbo lasers during the attack on the Death Star.

But now, using the finest technology available to 21st century humanity we can find out why 'Red Six' Jek Porkins (for he has a first name) was unable to 'hold it'.

Yes it's because he'd just been to a space drive through in Yavin's orbit and was trying to polish off a large fries and coke while wrestling with his control column.

And yet! There's more - it turns that Porkins not only has a first name but a middle one also. It's not Jek Jek Porkins in the style of a much loved other SW character, but, in fact 'Tono'.

As someone who's in the film for a time measured in seconds he seems to have acquired an amazingly colossal biography here.

See ya Porkins!