We get our hands all over the pick of the litter from last week's Force Friday Star Wars toy blowout: the Sphero powered BB-8 app-controlled droid!

Star Wars Battlefront is getting its own King of the Hill mode with Drop Zones - which will keep your eyes peeled to the sky for dropping orbital pods

Stormtroopers! They can’t aim worth a damn as even on the best of days they’ve got the marksman skills of a tree stump in a coma. Thing is, the Star Wars galaxy would be a lot less entertaining without a few legions of cannon fodder running around in their nice shiny white uniforms. Stormtroopers are about as disposable as nappies …

Moichendisin’! Disney looks set to start making some serious coin on Star Wars this year, when Episode 7: The Force Awakens in December. And that’s a brilliant date for a Star Wars movie to release. Why? Because Star Wars is the kind of franchise that was built on merchandising.

The game that happens to be set in a long, long ago age will have far, far away matchmaking systems in place, as players will be teamed up with players of a similar skill level according to developer DICE.

We’re just three and a half months away (18 December!) from the highly anticipated release of the next installment in the epic Star Wars saga – Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. I’m expecting it to blow all of this year’s current top performers, the likes of Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron, clear out of the water …

Folks scoffed when it was first announced that Disney would be spending upwards of $4 billion to acquire Star Wars. A ludicrous sum of money, that probably wouldn’t see any returns for many, many years. Right? Wrong! Star Wars is already proving to be a massive cash cow for the house of mouse, and that’s with the property not having …

Star Wars Battlefront has succumbed to the pressure, and will finally host a beta at the beginning of next month for all platforms.