O.k before some one screams IP infringement, Copy write theft, Illegal downloads, rips, hacks and cracks....read on

O.k now that's out of the way

Recently while updating a friends website for his online gaming guild (and yes it's a star wars game) i thought it would be an idea to find a freebie they could mess around with after reading the mess that was an update log, and that's when I found Star Wars The Battle For Endor and Star Wars The Battle For Yavin.

For the ones in the know, will know these arnt Star Wars games that were released on any major platform... that's because these weren't made by Lucas Arts...SHOCK HORROR! ....IP infringement, Copywrite theft, Illegal downloads, rips, hacks ... ...... WAIT FOR IT!...... no it's non of these things.

Back in the early 2000's a guy called Bruno Marcos, a guy who sat there and created his own games, and thanks to a little thing stated by god almighty George Lucas himself "I love when people create their own star wars mythologies and additions to the story" and because Bruno isnt claiming that registered trademarks are his own works...he is able to do this....and what's better is...the games are free.

So now that's all out of the way

Star Wars The Battle For Endor and Star Wars The Battle For Yavin are basically space flight sims where you blow up tie fighters to star destroyers...remember X-Wing Vs Tie-Fighter ? Star Wars Galaxies Jump to light speed ? well that's what it's like, its a simple game & very well done.

Sadly the graphics are like the games belong on an Atari or an early N.E.S system but still fin to play.

And yes they work on windows 7 before any one ask's....so give it a try and post your feedback

Star Wars - The Battle of Yavin (http://www.bruneras.com/starwars_the_battle_of_yavin.htm)
Star Wars - The Battle of Endor (http://www.bruneras.com/starwars_the_battle_of_endor.htm)


and yes I could of made this post more interesting and more to the point but... meh!... it's gone 1am so :P

Alternatively, if you own CoD4 on PC, track down the free Star Wars MP mod/conversion (German modders, years in the making, if I remember right). It's the best Star Wars (FPS-) game ever, still to this day, by a galactic mile.

Puts Lucasfilm and licensees to great shame, and yet I seem to recall that it has Lucasfilm's blessing as well (as in: they did not stamp on the modders' heads and said they wouldn't...if memory serves me right).

EDIT - linkies
Mod at moddb (http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-mod-galactic-warfare)
Mod in action (Youtube) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peLTcI43HuI)

Unfortunatly the two links given do not work :(

EDIT - nvm, you were on about the OP's links.

Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG now has a 'free to play' option.
http://www.swtor.com/

Hi. I have the free to play game and at first it seemed my pc would not run it - the game was loading but all I could see was a blue screen. Then it worked (after several reboots into low res mode as normal boot put the blue screen up!!!!)

I then played and got to level 9 but now the old trouble has started - blue screen on game load. You can hear the music in the background but no graphics whatsoever.

My gpu is a Radeon 4870, the CPU is Inel core 2 quad 6600 I am running Win 7 64bit with 4 gig ram.

Has anyone any idea of a cure?

Cheers and happy new year.