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I could make a lame Force joke here, but that shit’s played out, kids and kittens - let’s move on. Some new Star Wars : The Force Unleashed DLC is available now. If you liked this game, and millions of you obviously did if sales are any indication, then you’ll probably want to take a look at what LucasArts has on offer today.

A new level, Secret Apprentice is available now, offering an entirely new mission set in the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant. Playing as the snuggly soft Secret Apprentice, players travels to the Jedi Temple to learn more about dear old dad. Bundled with this new level are nine new costumes, which allow users to play through the game disguised as several new characters, including Mace Windu, Darth Maul, Qui-Gon Jinn, Dark Stalker, Lightsaber Training Droid and Combat Training Droid. You’ll also get several sexy new outfits including The Apprentice Cybernetic Reconstruction, The Apprentice’s Temple Exploration Gear and The Apprentice’s Sith Training Gear.

LucasArts has also released a new stand-alone costume pack which includes Apprentice’s Utility Combat Suit, Apprentice – Animated, Spirit Apprentice, Republic Trooper, Luke Skywalker – Tatooine Gear, Ben Kenobi, Plo Koon, Count Dooku, Jango Fett and the wonderfully shiny C-3P0.

Look for all this and previously released The Force Unleashed DLC on Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store.

Haven’t had enough of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed yet? Well LucasArts is offering some new incentives today in the form of some fresh downloadable content. Xbox 360 and PS3 users can jump onto their favorite online services (PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace) to buy a variety of new costumes and skins. The costume pack allows gamers to play through the game disguised as several new characters.

Costumes in the pack include Hooded Combat Gear, General Starkiller, Sith Assassin, Imperial Commando, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, Darth Sion, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Kit Fisto. Heh, Fisto.. In addition, new themes and picture packs are available for download.

In an interview with VideoGamer, PC Gaming Alliance showed other advocacy groups how to alienate potential partners by “calling out” LucasArts for not porting Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Forget the fact that the game got mixed reviews, and that LucasArts could have been finessed into returning to the PC space in once served well; Randy Stude wants to call them out on semantics.

According to that interview, Stude took exception with LucasArts’ technology related excuse for not bringing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed to PC. Stude went on to say that LucasArts doesn’t have a solid internal studio that handles its intellectual property and farms most of its work out anyway. Whether that’s true or not, it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to target LucasArts for doing exactly what every other game publisher is doing when it comes to the PC: skipping it.

Instead of wasting his time bitching about the negatives in the industry, perhaps LucasArts’ technology related excuse for not bringing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed to PC. should highlight the success of games like World of Warcraft, Spore, The Sims 2 and Warhammer Online - just to name a few - and encourage more developers to create games that cater to the PC market. To get its groove back, the industry needs less ports and more original content.
At the end of the day, public comments like these are best left as secret, unspoken thoughts. In other words, more diplomacy and less public outrage.

Source: GameDaily

September’s NPD retail sales numbers for the month of Sept. show that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was the most popular software title for the month, raking in a combined 1,158,000 units across three platforms (Xbox 360 – 610K, Wii – 223K and PS3 – 325K). Wii Fit came in at number 2 with sales of 518K, and Rock Band 2 came in third at 363K units. Full list after the jump.

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LucasArts plans to capitalize on the retail success of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed by releasing two downloadable content packages planned for later this year.

The first package will give players some new costumes and character models to replay the game with including such favorites as Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Kit Fisto. The second package, which is much more substantial, will give players a brand new chapter to play through. This new chapter will take place in the in the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant.

Both DLC offerings are being developed by LucasArts and will have a price and release date to be determined at a later date. Both will be made available on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.

No matter what anyone thinks of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, consumers are snapping it up. My personal opinion? It’s an okay game - not great, not wonderful, just okay - but I digress.. Less than one week since its release, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide across multiple platforms.

Released on Sept. 16 in North America, Sept. 17 in Australia and Southeast Asia, and Sept.19 in Europe, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has demolished LucasArts sales records around the globe in record time. LucasArts shipped more than 4.3 million units of The Force Unleashed around the world in preparation for the game’s launch and the company says that it has already begun manufacturing and distributing additional copies.

Now that we have the sales data out of the way, I should point out our various The Force Unleashed reviews by Tom Chick, who did not find the game as enjoyable as others did - right after the jump:

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Today is the day that Darth Vader’s secret apprentice is finally and fully revealed in LucasArts’ Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, PSP, PS2, and the DS. The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader’s secret apprentice, offering a new perspective and new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy as seen through the eyes of this mysterious new character that is armed with unprecedented powers.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed also breaks new ground on next-generation systems by taking advantage of newly developed technologies like Digital Molecular Matter by Pixelux Entertainment, and euphoria by NaturalMotion. These technologies imbue objects and enemies with the ability to react with realistic behavior and real world physics.

Look for the game in stores today (I have already picked up my copy for the Xbox 360) and be sure to be on the lookout for Crispy Gamer’s review of The Force Unleashed very soon.