06/05/2013 - 23:46 LEGO Star Wars

star wars games electronic arts

Small editorial digression with the official announcement by Disney of the arrival of Electronic Arts at the helm of the next "serious" games of the franchise, the so-called "core games".

Disney Interactive retains the "lead"for everything related to the so-called games"casual", notably with games intended for mobile platforms (iPhone, iPad, iTrucs, Andromachins, etc.)

As part of the contract which has just been signed, EA should surround itself with recognized development studios such as Bioware (SW: TOR), DICE (Battlefield) or Visceral (Dead Space) to carry out its mission during the next years. Everything will be done in close collaboration with the Lucasfilm teams.

The promise is there, it remains to be seen what will come out of Electronic Arts' hat in the years to come. However, we should no longer hear of Star Wars: 1313 or First assault. These two games seem to be definitely missing and sacrificed on the altar of change and renewal wanted by Disney.

The titles in development will be officially announced in the coming months.

As usual then, wait and see...

06/05/2013 - 16:01 Lego news Shopping

LEGO Batman The Movie DC Super Heroes Unite

Many of you have written to me asking where to find the special edition of "film" LEGO Batman The Movie DC Super Heroes Unite accompanied by the exclusive Clark Kent minifigure.

A seller from the amazon marketplace has just put this collector's pack on sale on amazon.es and amazon.it.

As usual with the marketplace or with the foreign versions of Amazon, you will have to pay the shipping costs to France and the overall invoice seems at first glance a little high.

Amazon.co.uk also offers an import version of this collector's pack, but which is still in the process of being supplied at the time of this writing.

This pack is also available on eBay, but beware of shipping costs, the sellers are located abroad (USA & UK).

LEGO Batman The Movie DC Super Heroes Unite on eBay1?ff3=4&pub=5575046059&toolid=10001&campid=5337309211&customid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER].

LEGO Batman The Movie DC Super Heroes Unite on amazon.es.
LEGO Batman The Movie DC Super Heroes Unite on amazon.it.
LEGO Batman The Movie DC Super Heroes Unite at amazon.co.uk.

05/05/2013 - 18:40 Lego news

LEGO® STAR WARS ™ THE YODA CHRONICLES

The pitch is (or was) enticing: "... For centuries, Yoda ™ has been training future Jedi Knights ™, but nothing could have prepared them for this ... The dark side is developing an extremely powerful weapon that no Jedi ™ can use. has never been confronted. Play now to take control of the galaxy!
Build, create and control your favorite characters and vehicles to defeat your enemies, solve puzzles and complete challenges in the LEGO® Star Wars ™ universe ...
"

205 MB later, here I am trying the new free video game offered by LEGO on my iPhone.

The verdict is final, although a few other blogs can say that praise this game: We are bored to death ... It's very well produced, it's pretty, but the pleasure is not at the Appointment. A few app crashes later, I've already moved on.

The cinematic sequences are nice, the starting principle is interesting and we expect more than the simplistic missions that are proposed. Even the youngest should quickly tire of it.

Hopefully a future update that will fix the issues. With the current level of quality of some games offered on iOS, LEGO has no excuse not to correct the major flaws in this application.

The Android version is expected for summer 2013.

LEGO® STAR WARS ™ THE YODA CHRONICLES

05/05/2013 - 12:30 LEGO Ideas

Star Wars Bounty Hunters in Bust Format by Omar Ovalle

You will tell me that I should stop insisting with Cuusoo, it rarely comes out good. But as a logical continuation of the project he has been developing for several months, Omar Ovalle has just uploaded his Bounty Hunters busts.

He had already attempted the Cuusoo adventure a few months ago before withdrawing his creations, as many MOCeurs did at the time, faced with the lack of organization of the collaborative project initiated by LEGO and the hostage organized by certain groups of fans to highlight projects of no real interest with great buzz.

 

Reaching 10.000 supporters will not be easy, we all know that. And even if this fateful threshold is reached, there is nothing to say that LEGO will consider the idea.

But supporting this project above all makes it possible to signal to LEGO and to show that a little variety within the LEGO Star Wars range would be welcome with something other than the usual ships and their remakes.

You do as you want, I vote for ...

05/05/2013 - 12:10 LEGO Star Wars

To put an end to the second wave of LEGO Star Wars sets planned for 2013, here are the high-resolution visuals of the following 9 sets:

75023 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2013
75022 Mandalorian Speeder
75021 Republic Gunship
75020 Jabba's Sail Barge
75019 AT-TE
75018 JEK-14's Stealth Starfighter
75017 Duel on Geonosis
75016 Homing Spider Droid
75015 Corporate Alliance Tank Droid

You can access even more detailed images directly on the Hoth Bricks flickr gallery that I decided to use more frequently to post the visuals that flourish here and there. I know that many of you use flickr on a daily basis for your visual searches and you will now find all the images of new products posted on my blogs.

All these sets are referenced on Pricevortex.