The Nerd Next Door

Ah Star Wars , I've loved this franchise since I was a boy, I saw Episode II when I was 5 and was enthralled by namely the final battle of the movie with the desert and all the lasers and the explosions and the starships. Movie has aged poorly now but it got my foot in the door to being a Star Wars fanatic, I played the Jedi Knight and Rogue Squadron games on Gamecube, the Battlefront and Republic Commando games on Xbox, and watched the Star Wars Clone Wars Animated series from 2003. Overtime though I fell out with the series, haven't read the new books, don't play the mobile game, only watched the 2008 The Clone Wars Animated Series. Just haven't been in love with Star Wars since at least 2010. So when Star Wars Battlefront II from EA dropped I just sorta slept on it, but in Winter 2018 it was $10 on Origin so I picked it up. I know this game has a lot of hate, I jumped on it too when it dropped at first; but I saw the new movies so I was interested in the...

We all know that the Star Wars Episode IX Trailer, called Rise of Skywalker , dropped recently and everyone is hyped. And if you didn't know, here ya go. Now, while everyone is excited and is poring over it for details, there's only one that I want to talk about, the final laugh, the hint the Emperor will return in this film. Now, while the return of yet another thing from previous films is a groaner, I won't judge till I see the film. I will however point out that the return of Palpatine is nothing new for fans of the Expanded Universe, yes, let's talk about my most hated Star Wars comic of all time, the Dark Empire Trilogy . The story picks up 6 years after Return of the Jedi and has Luke struggling with trying to start a new Jedi order and the New Republic finally getting the Empire to a more manageable state and dominating it as a military power when blam, Palpatine arrives. So ya know how Anakin bought balance to the force and redeemed himself by killi...