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Wednesday17th Apr 2024
News Star Wars Outlaws Will Feature Galaxy's Most Infamous Card Game
"You have an awful Sabacc face"
Star Wars Outlaws has been in the headlines recently for some less-than-ideal reasons. Still, one thing we are genuinely looking forward to is the inclusion of Sabacc, the blackjack/poker hybrid popular among rogues like Han Solo and Lando Calrissian. Strangely, despite the rules being first revealed in 1989, its...
News Ubisoft Responds to Star Wars Outlaws Exclusive Jabba the Hutt Boondoggle
This deal is getting worse all the time
Since unveiling the eye-watering $130 Ultimate Edition of Star Wars Outlaws last week, Ubisoft has been under fire from fans furious a full-priced single-player game would even warrant a Season Pass in the first place. Worse, acquiring the Season Pass is the only way to "play the exclusive Jabba's Gambit...
Wednesday10th Apr 2024
News $130 Version of Star Wars Outlaws Under Fire as Ubisoft Prices Increase
Battle Pass vs. Season Pass confusion
Ubisoft revealed yesterday that Star Wars Outlaws will launch for PS5 on 30th August 2024, but what's got its potential community talking just as much is the eye-opening price of its Ultimate Edition. Up for pre-order now on the PS Store, the publisher has slapped a £120 / $130 price point on the most expensive...
News Star Wars Outlaws to Feature Emilia Clarke's Solo Character, Lady Qi'ra
Sadly, Clarke will not be reprising the role
Ubisoft's upcoming Star Wars Outlaws connects to the larger galaxy far, far away in some intriguing ways, one in particular. Remember Emilia Clarke's enigmatic character Qi'ra in the standalone Solo: A Star Wars Story? Considering how that movie ended, it should come as little surprise that the character...
Tuesday9th Apr 2024
News Two Star Wars Outlaws Expansions Will Arrive After PS5 Launch
Narrative-focused DLC after release
Star Wars Outlaws releases for PS5 on 30th August 2024, but post-launch support will try to keep you coming back for more as Ubisoft has confirmed the title will receive two expansions after release. All we know for now is the two pieces of DLC will have a narrative focus, but you can get them both in a season...
News New Star Wars Outlaws Trailer Confirms August PS5 Release Date
Fresh story footage revealed
Update: Ubisoft has now confirmed Star Wars Outlaws will launch for PS5 on 30th August 2024 as part of a new story trailer you can watch above. Original story: Ubisoft is planning on dropping a fresh story trailer for Star Wars Outlaws in a few hours, but the cat's already out of the bag by way of a Japanese premiere...
Friday5th Apr 2024
News Star Wars Outlaws Schedules a Story Trailer for Tuesday
Next look at one of 2024's hottest games
Ubisoft has confirmed it'll be dropping a Star Wars Outlaws story trailer next week on Tuesday, 9th April 2024. Debuting at 5pm BST / 9am PT / 12pm ET, footage will focus on the narrative of the PS5 title, which is set in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. A new key art featuring new...
Thursday28th Mar 2024
News Star Wars Outlaws Rated in Australia
M for Mature, mate
Ubisoft's hotly anticipated PS5 game, Star Wars Outlaws, has been rated in Australia. The filing was made on 20th March (thanks, Kotaku), and there is speculation that a release date could be imminent, although that last part remains to be seen. Outlaws has received a preliminary, standardised IARC (International Age Rating...
Tuesday30th Jan 2024
News Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Sounding Like the Scoundrel Simulator We Always Wanted
Honour among thieves
Star Wars Outlaws is one of the more intriguing pieces of media set in that galaxy far, far, away, seemingly designed to draw in lapsed fans of a particular vintage like ourselves. It takes place in the fertile space between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, concerned with the seedier, less sterile corners of the...
Thursday4th Jan 2024
News Disney May Have Accidentally Outed Star Wars Outlaws' PS5 Release Window
But it was quick to make an edit
We already knew that Ubisoft was plotting a 2024 launch for its open world sci-fi shooter Star Wars Outlaws, but a since-edited post on a Disney Parks blog may have nailed down more precisely when we can expect to visit a galaxy far, far away. Multiple outlets, including IGN, noticed the original blurb referenced a...
Friday27th Oct 2023
News Stunning PS5 Open Worlder Star Wars Outlaws Has Seemingly Been Delayed
Pushed beyond March 2024
It wowed a lot of people with its full reveal back in June, but it sounds like Star Wars Outlaws won't be making the jump to PS5 in early 2024 after all. To be clear, the open world title was never given a firm release date, but publisher Ubisoft had it pencilled in for this fiscal year. In other words, it was targeting —...
Wednesday26th Jul 2023
News Don't Worry, Ubisoft Promises Star Wars Outlaws Won't Be a '300 Hour Epic Unfinishable RPG'
A festivus for the rest of us
If you were worried that Star Wars Outlaws was going to end up being an infinite Ubisoft timesink ala Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, the developers at Massive Entertainment want to put you at ease, noting that the experience will be "very manageable". The concern comes from a recent interview, in which one of the game's...
Monday24th Jul 2023
News Star Wars Outlaws Director Teases Galaxy's Most Unappealing Cooking Mechanic
Luke Skywalker > Bear Grylls
Ever wondered what kind of nightmarish, extraterrestrial smoothy you could whip up with the disgusting liquids that barbarian Luke Skywalker was always chugging down? It might not actually taste that bad; as dedicated fans well know, George Lucas had a bad habit of making things sound worse than they actually are (see...
Sunday23rd Jul 2023
News PS5 Open World Star Wars Outlaws Will Let You Work for Jabba the Hutt
And you can betray him
Ubisoft knows its way around compelling open worlds, but Star Wars Outlaws is shaping up to be one of its biggest and most densely detailed yet. As previously announced, each planet in the release will be fully explorable, with enough open space to give you a meaningful sense of adventure. And the French publisher is...
Monday17th Jul 2023
News Star Wars Outlaws' PS5 Planets Will All Be Handcrafted and Feel Like a Journey
Hype responsibly
Star Wars Outlaws has sounded like a slam-dunk from the get-go: a single-player third-person action-adventure developed by Massive Entertainment (The Division, The Division 2) which follows a charismatic bounty-hunting duo as they "attempt one of the biggest heists the Outer Rim has ever seen". Also, it's set between The Empire...
Tuesday13th Jun 2023
News Star Wars Outlaws to Feature GTA-Style Wanted System to Punish Your Intergalactic Crimes
Outlaws for life
We got our first good look at Star Wars Outlaws at Ubisoft's Forward Showcase, and it left a serious impression, with the prospect of spice deals gone wrong, speeder bike chases, and legendary smuggling runs in the offing. After the showing, during a developer breakdown of the footage (than
Monday12th Jun 2023
News Star Wars Outlaws Looks Legitimately Mind Blowing in Huge PS5 Gameplay Demo
Wow
Ubisoft has debuted an enormous 10 minute gameplay demo of Star Wars Outlaws, and it looks legitimately incredible. The demo starts out by introducing protagonist Kay Vess and her adorable companion Nix, as the pair sneak out of a restricted area with an important relic. You can order Nix to assist you, as demonstrated in the beginning of the...
Sunday11th Jun 2023
News Ubisoft's Open World Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Gameplay Will Debut Tomorrow
Due out next year
Star Wars Outlaws, the first open world entry from Ubisoft in the legendary LucasFilm franchise, will launch in 2024 – and while there’s a lengthy CG trailer embedded above to whet your appetite, you won’t have to wait long for gameplay. The French firm promises that the first PS5 gameplay will debut during Ubisoft Forward...
