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40 Years of Star Wars Games w/ Author Chris Baker – The Blockade Runner Podcast #256

Author Chris Baker joins Ryan and John to discuss his new book X-Wings, Lightsabers, and Scorpion Vader: Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars Video Games.

Learn more about Chris’s book at http://www.scorpionvader.com.

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Upcoming Star Wars Games w/ Alex Kane – The Blockade Runner Podcast #223

Author and journalist Alex Kane joins Ryan and John to discuss upcoming Star Wars video games including the Knights of the Old Republic remake, Jedi: Survivor, and the announced but still mysterious Amy Hennig and Ubisoft Star Wars games.

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Star Wars Returns to Dark Horse – The Blockade Runner Podcast #200

It’s our 200th episode and we celebrated by recording a completely standard episode covering Star Wars comics and games news plus a big casting rumor for the upcoming Ahsoka show on Disney+.

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Star Wars on the N64 (Part 1) w/ Neal Ronaghan – The Blockade Runner Podcast #196

Nintendo World Report’s Neal Ronaghan joins us for part one of our Star Wars on N64 retrospective. We tackle N64 console exclusives Shadows of the Empire and Rogue Squadron as well as the console’s launch and LucasArts’s relationship with Nintendo.

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Lucasfilm Games Reborn – The Blockade Runner Podcast #168

Lucasfilm Games was reborn this week and Ryan and John discuss that news as well as the Indiana Jones and Star Wars games they’ve just revealed. We then spend some time discussing the genres and studios we’d like to see them work with as well as Star Wars games we’d love to see rereleased on modern platforms.

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The Mandalorian Chapter 2 and Jedi: Fallen Order- The Blockade Runner Podcast #131

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This week’s show is basically just two big segments covering The Mandalorian chapter two and Jedi: Fallen Order. We start the show by discussing favorite moments from The Mandalorian as well as some potential symbolism in the episode and the cruelty of the post-Empire galaxy. The second half of the show features our early experiences playing Jedi: Fallen Order and a discussion of its influences and gameplay systems.

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Zen Studios’ Star Wars Pinball – The Blockade Runner Podcast #121

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This week’s episode is all about Star Wars video games. We kick off the episode by disucssing the recently announced Jedi Knight and Jedi Academy console ports before devoting the rest of the show to taking a look at the recently released and completely excellent Star Wars Pinball package for Switch. We originally planned on discussing the many Rise of Skywalker toy leaks that have been happening lately, but there was just too much pinball to talk this week so we’re saving that discussion for episode 122.

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Star Wars Racing Games – The Blockade Runner Podcast #111

 

BR 111 CoverIn continued celebration of The Phantom Menace, this episode features a look back at Star Wars racing games. We spend the bulk of the episode on Episode 1: Racer in its various forms before spending some time with Racer Revenge, Super Bombad Racing, and Resistance Racer.

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Author Alex Kane Talks Upcoming KOTOR Book – The Blockade Runner Podcast #97

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This week’s episode features an interview with Alex Kane, author of the upcoming book Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Ryan talks to Alex about KOTOR, the book, and Alex’s other writing on games in the show’s first segment. John joins for the second half of the show to talk with Ryan about how much he enjoyed the book (even though he’s never played the game), the impact of KOTOR on Star Wars culture, and the potential influence of the game on rumored upcoming films or other media set in the Old Republic era.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic releases on April 9th and you can pre-order your copy here. 

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The Power of the 90s: 1996 (Shadows of the Empire) – The Blockade Runner Podcast #83

Ryan and John are joined by Jeff “The Metal Mando” Kelts to celebrate all things Shadows of the Empire. Join us for two hours of talk about the Shadows book, comic, game, toys, soundtrack, trading cards, and more!

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