Weekly hunting missions on land and in space are being added to SWG Legends

The new highly replayable system combines ground missions, space combat, individual objectives, group objectives and lower level combat.

Star Wars Galaxies Legends is preparing a new weekly mission system that will take players into battles on land and space. The missions are designed for single players, groups, and even low-level characters. The system was revealed in the latest developer diary and is based around a new mission board run by a Rodian named Kritz Baelna. Players will be able to take on repeatable missions ranging from Tier 5 Rebel starships to much more dangerous ground targets such as the Shadow Cult of the Sith and Terentatek. For completing tasks, players will receive boxes with rewards.

The most interesting thing is just this combination. For much of 2026, Legends has been busy improving certain aspects of the game. The massive Battle of Restuss update pushed PvP and bounty hunting forward, while the June update expanded Bespin, space content, and improved usability systems. Weekly hunts don't feel like just another isolated activity, but rather like a link between the many systems that already exist in SWG.

“Star Wars” has revealed the canonical image of the main character of Star Wars: Zero Company

Star Wars: Zero Company from Bit Reactor and Respawn Entertainment allows players to command a small secret unit dedicated to carrying out covert missions during the Clone Wars. The main character is Hawks, the leader of Zero Company, and the only operator who cannot die in the plot.

In the game, Hawks is a customizable character, meaning players can choose his race, gender, name, face, voice, clothing, and combat specialization. This freedom of choice opens up many storytelling possibilities, but the Star Wars Databank, the official online encyclopedia of Star Wars, confirms that Hawks is male.

Hawks is depicted as a bearded man wearing a dark leather coat over a green high-collared shirt. This image was used in the introductory video of Zero Company before character creation began.

The official description of Hawks in the database uses the same short biography as in the game's marketing materials. It is noted that he was a former captain in the Grand Army of the Republic, dismissed after the defeat by the Separatists.

In an interview with IGN director of Star Wars: Zero Company Greg Fertsch said that "Hawks can be anything you want him to be," giving fans the opportunity to demonstrate:

Hawks can be anyone. You can make Hawks a Twi'lek or a Zabrak, a man, a woman... He has to be what you want him to be as a player.

Creation of the image of Rotta the Hutt in the series “The Mandalorian” and “Grogu”

Brandon Wainerdy, author of StarWars.com, goes behind the scenes of The Mandalorian and Grogu to learn how the artists at Industrial Light & Magic brought Jabba's son to life Hutta, Rottu, in the latest Star Wars film.

In the 1997 special edition of Star Wars: A New Hope, viewers saw smuggler Han Solo walk behind a computer model of Jabba the Hutt and step on his tail. And although Rotta is not at all like his father, he is also no stranger to having his personal space trampled upon. “It all happens very quickly, but there’s actually a moment during their fight where Mando comes around from behind Rotta, steps on his tail to give him a little extra height, and then pushes his hand away,” Hal Hickel, longtime head of ILM’s animation department, told StarWars.com.

“We included this not as a reference to the original joke, but still, it’s like poetry, it rhymes.”

Many longtime fans were introduced to Rotta before The Mandalorian and Grogu premiered in late summer 2008. At the time of the release of the animated film The Clone Wars, Jabba the Hutt's son was just a little green lump nicknamed "Stinky" who walked around in Ahsoka Tano's backpack. In fact, the movie The Clone Wars also marked the debut of the young Torgruta Padawan in a galaxy far, far away. Nearly 20 years later, both characters have matured significantly, and both have now been adapted into live-action films: Rotta has returned to the big screen as one of the main characters in The Mandalorian and Grogu, and Ahsoka has starred in her own series starring Rosario Dawson, with a second season due early next year.

Rotta is back as a movie star, but it took a whole team of new artists to prepare for his close-up.

Star Wars (1977) and Star Wars: Starfighter will debut in IMAX 70mm in 2027

Lucasfilm and Disney will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic film's first IMAX screening, followed by a screening of Star Wars: Starfighter in IMAX 70mm in May!

Star Wars (1977) films and Star Wars: Star Wars Starfighter—both the original and the latest in Lucasfilm's series that changed cinema forever—will be available for viewing in IMAX 70mm in 2027.

The film that started it all, Star Wars (1977), will be shown in IMAX for the first time - digitally or on film - as part of a highly anticipated anniversary re-release on February 19, 2027. As part of Lucasfilm's year-long 50th anniversary celebration, the newly restored version of the original film, later retitled Star Wars: A New Hope, will be shown in a limited number of IMAX 70mm theaters, as well as select theaters for a limited time.

Then, on May 28, 2027—the 50th anniversary weekend of the original Star Wars film—Lucasfilm will release Star Wars: Starfighter, shot for IMAX, using IMAX-certified film cameras, and converted to 70mm IMAX prints for release in a limited number of IMAX theaters. An all-new standalone adventure from director and producer Shawn Levy (Deadpool and Wolverine, Stranger Things) starring Ryan Gosling (Drive, Blade Runner, La La Land, The Place Beyond the Pines, Barbie) as Cade Oberron, Star Wars: Starfighter A cynical adventurer confronts his mysterious past and finds himself embroiled in a dangerous adventure across the galaxy that puts him on a collision course with fate.

The film also stars Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, Flynn Gray and Amy Adams.The screenplay was written by Jonathan Tropper, produced by Shawn Levy and Kathleen Kennedy, with Ryan Gosling, Mary McLaglen, Josh McLaglen, Dave Filoni and Dan Levine serving as executive producers.

Book review: “Hiding from the Darkness: A Star Wars Horror Novel”

Lucasfilm's recent efforts to explore different genres within the Star Wars galaxy have already taken readers in some exciting directions. The first book in this new initiative, Eyes Like Stars, immersed the reader in romance and offered many unexpected details about the galaxy leading up to the events of The Force Awakens. Now, Star Wars is delving into much darker themes with the first canonical "Star Wars Horror Novel."

Kirsten White's novel Hiding from the Darkness tells the story of Bia, a young girl who lives an ordinary life with her mother, an Imperial officer, on Coruscant. But when her mother disappears, Biya finds herself pursued by a sinister figure in black: Darth Vader.

Anime “Star Wars: The Ninth Jedi”: how the Japanese spirit was returned to the world of the Jedi

The new series based on the Star Wars universe was released on August 5 and went almost unnoticed, although it scored 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and received good ratings from a few viewers. The Ninth Jedi, like the entire Visions project, is not bound by the official Star Wars canon, which gave showrunner Kenji Kamiyama the opportunity to tell his own story without fan service and the New Republic framework. What did Production I.G studio do?

John Williams surprised fans at the Hollywood Bowl with an encore performance of the "Imperial March" under the baton of a conductor.

Legendary composer John Williams surprised guests at the Maestro of Cinema: A Tribute to John Williams festival, which will take place at the Hollywood Bowl from September 4 to 6, by appearing at the event and conducting the Imperial March encore from a wheelchair. Williams performed on both Friday and Saturday nights and is expected to attend the festival today as well.

Star Wars Zero Company - how many cycles will a complete playthrough take?

In Star Wars Zero Company, cycles are the basic unit of game time. One cycle corresponds to one day and one completed task.

If you want to understand how long a complete playthrough will take, here's all the information you need.

Total number of cycles

Completing the campaign from start to finish takes approximately 30–40 cycles. The exact number depends on your decisions and how deeply you explore the game.

What determines the number of cycles

Each completed tactical mission advances the campaign by one cycle. Between missions you return to the Holographic Table, where the set of available targets may change. Therefore, the number of cycles does not always strictly correspond to the number of completed missions.

• If you focus only on the key missions needed to advance the story, the game can be completed in about 30 cycles.
• If you complete additional tasks - missions of comrades, crisis and ordinary ones - the passage will stretch to about 40 cycles.

How much is this in real hours

In real time terms, 30–40 cycles mean approximately 35–45 hours of completion. One cycle takes on average just under an hour, provided you don't die on missions and don't spend too much time in the Lair customizing equipment and builds.

The developers from Bit Reactor give a similar assessment: according to their calculations, the average player will take about 30-40 hours to complete the main story campaign. At higher difficulty levels this time may increase.