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Freedom Wars
During the SCE Worldwide Studios keynote speech at the 2014 Taipei Game Show, producer Junichi Yoshizawa announced that the game would have a simultaneous release in Japan and Asia, and would also be localised in both Japanese and Traditional Chinese. Sony Computer Entertainment later announced in April 2014 that the game would be localized for a western release. North America and Europe both have physical retail releases of the game. A Korean language localization was also announced, and later released on August 7, 2014. The Chinese-language version of the game released in Taiwan and throughout Southeast Asia was released on the same day. Whilst the Japanese version of the game features a map of Japan's 47 prefectures for its competitive multiplayer mode, the Chinese-localization Asian version was announced to have players select Panopticons from regions such as Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. According to Nick Accordino who is in charge of the western localisation, the English release would feature 50 Panopticons based on cities located around the world.
Freedom Wars
The original game soundtrack was released in Japan on , and features three CDs covering 46 music tracks. A music CD titled featuring four promotional songs for the game sung by the fictional propaganda idols Panna, Opti and Connie was sold by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia at Comiket 86 on August 15, 2014.
Freedom Wars
A spinoff novelisation written by Masachika Kobayashi and illustrated by Kei Watanabe and Erika Ide was announced under the title , and began serialisation on August 28, 2014.
The Freedom Sessions
The Freedom Sessions is an album by Sarah McLachlan which was released on 6 December 1994 on Nettwerk in Canada and 28 March 1995 on Arista Records in the United States. The album consisted primarily of previously unreleased alternative versions and remixes of McLachlan recordings, plus a cover version of "Ol' 55" by Tom Waits. Many of the tracks were recorded during the same sessions as McLachlan's 1993 album "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy". In subsequent live performances, some of these songs (most notably "Ice Cream" and "Hold On") were reworked to match the style in which they were played on this album.
Daniel Suarez (author)
His career as an author began with a pair of techno-thriller novels. The first novel, "Daemon", was self-published under his own company, Verdugo Press, in late 2006. It was later picked up by the major publishing house Dutton and re-released on January 8, 2009. His follow-up book "Freedom" was released on January 7, 2010. "The Wall Street Journal" has reported that Walter F. Parkes, who produced the 1983 film "WarGames", has optioned the film rights to "Daemon" with Paramount Pictures, but the rights likely reverted to Suarez on 8 December 2012.
Freedom Force (2002 video game)
Freedom Force is a real-time tactical role-playing game developed by Irrational Games and published by Electronic Arts and Crave Entertainment in 2002. The player guides a team of superheroes as they defend Patriot City from a variety of villains, monsters, and other menaces. The game's budget was $2 million. A sequel, "Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich", was self-published in early March 2005. The games were made available on Steam on May 29, 2009.
Star Wars
In 1971, George Lucas wanted to film an adaptation of the "Flash Gordon" serial, but couldn't obtain the rights, so he began developing his own space opera. After directing "American Graffiti" (1973), he wrote a two-page synopsis titled "Journal of the Whills", which 20th Century Fox decided to invest in. By 1974, he had expanded the story into the first draft of a screenplay, and continued writing more polished drafts.
Lucas negotiated to retain the sequel rights, and was offered an initial $150,000 to write, produce, and direct the film. "Star Wars" was released on May 25, 1977. Its success led Lucas to make it the basis of an elaborate film serial.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Star Wars: The Old Republic is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based in the "Star Wars" universe. Developed by BioWare Austin and a supplemental team at BioWare Edmonton, the game was announced on October 21, 2008. The video game was released for the Microsoft Windows platform on December 20, 2011 in North America and part of Europe. Early access to the game began one week before release, on December 13, 2011, for those who had pre-ordered the game online; access opened in "waves" based on pre-order date.
Flames of War
In November 2009, Battlefront announced "Flames of War Vietnam - The Battle for la Drang". This rule set was released in Wargames Illustrated Magazine #266, and received a limited release of supporting models. In April 2011 Flames of War Vietnam was made a permanent rule set when the first sourcebook was added as a free addition to Wargames Illustrated Magazine #282, along with the re-release of the original miniatures (In new packaging) and several new box sets. In March 2013 the first softback released through the Flames of War brand rather than Wargames Illustrated was released. This book contained several lists previously seen in releases from Wargames Illustrated such as those for the United States as well as PAVN and will be supported by a full range of models. New forces include those from ARVN, the ANZAC Brigade sent to Vietnam, as well as new force diagrams for the United States and PAVN.
John Ford
After completing "Liberty Valance", Ford was hired to direct the Civil War section of MGM's epic "How The West Was Won", the first non-documentary film to use the Cinerama wide-screen process. Ford's segment featured George Peppard, with Andy Devine, Russ Tamblyn, Harry Morgan as Ulysses S. Grant, and John Wayne as William Tecumseh Sherman. Also in 1962, Ford directed his fourth and last TV production, "Flashing Spikes", a baseball story made for the "Alcoa Premiere" series and starring James Stewart, Jack Warden, Patrick Wayne and Tige Andrews, with Harry Carey Jr. and a lengthy surprise appearance by John Wayne, billed in the credits as "Michael Morris".
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a Lego-themed action-adventure video game developed by TT Fusion, based on the film "". It is the fifth entry in TT Games' "Lego Star Wars" series. Under license from Lucasfilm, the game was released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for iOS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita and Wii U, on 28 June 2016, and for Android on 27 July 2016. The game was ported and released by Feral Interactive for OS X on 30 June 2016.
Star Wars Battlefront (2015 video game)
In May 2013, publisher Electronic Arts obtained exclusive rights to develop "Star Wars" games for gaming consoles, and its subsidiaries DICE, Visceral Games, and BioWare started work on "Star Wars" games after LucasArts was shut down. DICE first acknowledged the game at Electronic Arts' E3 2013 press conference, along with a teaser trailer. The game is built with the Frostbite 3 engine; studio head Patrick Söderlund stated that the game would be "DICE's interpretation of what "Battlefront" should be", while still incorporating elements from the previous two games. As such, DICE did not brand the new game as a sequel to "", but a reboot of the franchise. Söderlund said that the game almost was not developed, but that staffers at DICE lobbied to be given the project; he called DICE's development of "Battlefront" "a match made in heaven". Instead of using traditional modeling techniques, the developers used photogrammetry to produce the assets. Small teams formed by artists were responsible for selecting the right assets that could be used by level designers to build maps. According to DICE, the process of developing the assets for the game took half as much time as developing the assets for "Battlefield 4", which were produced by using traditional modeling techniques.
Star Wars
In 1977, the board game "Star Wars: Escape from the Death Star" was released, not to be confused with the board game with the same name published in 1990. A "Star Wars Monopoly" and themed versions of "Trivial Pursuit" and Battleship were released in 1997, with updated versions released in subsequent years. The board game "Risk" has been adapted in two editions by Hasbro: "" (2005) and the "" (2006). Three "Star Wars" tabletop role-playing games have been developed: in the 1980s and 1990s, one by Wizards of the Coast in the 2000s, and one by Fantasy Flight Games in the 2010s.
Advance Wars
Advance Wars, released in Japan as is a turn-based tactics video game developed for the Game Boy Advance by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. It was released in North America on September 10, 2001 with a later release date on Japan and Europe, but the game release was put on hold in both Japan and Europe region due to the following day's September 11 attacks in the United States. Although the game was released in Europe in January 2002, neither GBA game was released in Japan until the "Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2" compilation on November 25, 2004. "Advance Wars" has been released for the Wii U Virtual Console simultaneously in Europe and North America on April 3, 2014.
Changes in Star Wars re-releases
In 1989, the original release of "Star Wars" was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress. In 2014, the National Film Registry still did not have a copy of the 1977 film; director George Lucas refused to submit a copy, stating that he no longer authorized the release of the theatrical version. Lucasfilm offered the altered 1997 Special Edition release, but the Registry refused it as the first published version must be accepted. The Library of Congress, however, received a 35mm print of the film, without the "A New Hope" subtitle and subsequent alterations, in 1978 as part of the film's copyright deposit.The first film was released in 1977 under the title "Star Wars". The subtitles "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" were retroactively added to the opening crawl in a subsequent release. Accounts differ as to when this change occurred. Some, including Lucasfilm, date the addition to a theatrical re-release on April 10, 1981, while others place it much earlier at the re-release in July 1978. This change was made to bring the original film in line with the titling of its sequel "The Empire Strikes Back", which was released in 1980 with the subtitle "Episode V".
Young Justice: Legacy
Young Justice: Legacy is an action-adventure video game developed by Freedom Factory Studios and published by Little Orbit. It was released in November 2013 for Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The game is based on the "Young Justice" animated television series, and takes place in the five-year gap between seasons one and two, and was developed in collaboration with the writers of the series, Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti. Originally the game was planned to also be released on Nintendo DS, Wii, and Wii U, but the developers announced that these versions were cancelled due to quality issues and low interest from retailers.
Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich
Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich is a real-time tactical role-playing game developed and published by Irrational Games. The sequel to "Freedom Force", the player guides a team of superheroes as they travel back in time and help overthrow Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II.
Vox Day
Beale and Andrew Lunstad founded a video game company in 1993 named Fenris Wolf. Fenris Wolf was developing two games, "Rebel Moon Revolution" and "Traveler" for the Sega Dreamcast, when it closed in 1999 after a legal dispute with its retail publisher GT Interactive Software. In 1999, under the name Eternal Warriors, Beale and Lunstad released "The War in Heaven", a Biblical video game published by Valusoft and distributed by GT Interactive. Beale created the WarMouse - known as the OpenOffice Mouse until Sun Microsystems objected on trademark grounds - a computer mouse with 18 buttons, a scroll wheel, a thumb-operated joystick, and 512k of memory. Beale was an early supporter of Gamergate and hosted the GGinParis meetup in July 2015 with Milo Yiannopoulos and Mike Cernovich.
Freedom Force (video game)
Freedom Force (フリ一ドム・フオ一ス) is a video game created by Sunsoft and released in 1988 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. In the game, the player takes the role of a sharpshooter in a counter-terrorist organization. "Freedom Force" was also one of the few NES games to require the NES Zapper light gun accessory. The game was released in arcades on the Nintendo Vs. System as "Vs. Freedom Force".
Fantasy War Tactics
Fantasy War Tactics is a free-to-play mobile strategic role-playing game with in-app purchase, developed by Nexon GT and published by Nexon. The game ran its global beta stage on "April 30, 2015" and was globally released on "November 5, 2015" for both iOS and Android platforms, available in 154 countries.
Star Wars (film)
"Star Wars" debuted on Betamax, CED, LaserDisc, Video 2000, and VHS between the 1980s and 1990s by CBS/Fox Video. The final issue of the original theatrical release (pre-Special Edition) to VHS format occurred in 1995, as part of "Last Chance to Own the Original" campaign, available as part of a trilogy set and as a standalone purchase. The film was released for the first time on DVD on September 21, 2004, in a box set with "The Empire Strikes Back", "Return of the Jedi", and a bonus disc of supplementary material. The films were digitally restored and remastered, and more changes were made by George Lucas. The DVD features a commentary track from Lucas, Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren, and Carrie Fisher. The bonus disc contains the documentary "Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy", three featurettes, teasers, theatrical trailers, TV spots, still galleries, an exclusive preview of "", a playable Xbox demo of the LucasArts game "", and a "Making Of" documentary on . The set was reissued in December 2005 as part of a three-disc limited edition boxed set without the bonus disc.
Robot Wars (film)
The two robots meet in the desert and begin fighting. Drake removes the MRAS-2's cabin, saving the passengers, and eventually manages to subdue the general. The film ends happily as he and Leda admit their attraction to each other."Robot Wars" was originally released on VHS by Paramount Home Video. It made its DVD debut in the 2007 box set "Full Moon Classics: Volume Two". The film was also featured in the limited edition box set "Full Moon Features: The Archive Collection", a 20th anniversary collection which featured 18 of Full Moon's most popular films. The film was released on DVD again by Shout! Factory on June 14, 2011, as a double feature DVD with "Crash and Burn". The film was released on Blu-ray by Full Moon Features on December 15, 2017.
Frontier Developments
Frontier Developments has made many other games, including "Dog's Life", "Thrillville", and "RollerCoaster Tycoon 3". The company also made games for the Wallace and Gromit franchise, and has released "Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo", and for "". In 2008, Frontier released "LostWinds", a launch title for Nintendo's WiiWare platform. It received critical acclaim, scoring 81% on Metacritic. It was followed up with a sequel in 2009, entitled "", which scored 86% on Metacritic. In 2010, Frontier developed "Kinectimals" for Microsoft's Kinect controller on the Xbox 360. In 2011 "Kinect Disneyland Adventures" and "Kinectimals: Now With Bears" were developed, along with ports of "LostWinds" for iOS and "Kinectimals" for iOS and Windows Phone. In 2012, Frontier released "Coaster Crazy", and started to work on "" Kickstarter, which successfully closed at the start of 2013. In 2013, Frontier released Xbox One and Xbox 360 exclusive "Zoo Tycoon", published by Microsoft Studios, and launched backers alpha for "Elite: Dangerous" in December. In 2015 the company released "Screamride", a theme park construction and management simulation game for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The company has recently released "Planet Coaster", a construction and management simulation video game similar to the "RollerCoaster Tycoon" franchise. The game is the second major self-published franchises from Frontier along with the "Elite" series. Frontier announced that they will begin self-publishing all their future games, starting with "Planet Coaster".
Star Wars: Rebel Assault
Star Wars: Rebel Assault is a rail shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts for DOS, Apple Macintosh, Sega CD and 3DO Interactive Multiplayer systems, set in the Star Wars universe. Released in 1993, it is the first CD-ROM-only game to be published by LucasArts. The game's story focuses on a young pilot called Rookie One as He or She is trained by, and subsequently fights for, the Rebel Alliance in the Galactic Civil War.
Tactical role-playing game
In 2001, "Sakura Wars 3" for the Dreamcast introduced a new combat system that incorporates action elements, and abandons the use of grids in favour of allowing each character to move around freely across the battlefield but with a limited number of moves each turn illustrated using a bar at the bottom of the screen. This type of combat system would later be the basis for the combat system in "Valkyria Chronicles", developed by much of the same team in 2008. The "Sakura Wars" series would not be released in the West until the fifth game, "" (2005). The "Front Mission" series also continued on to the PlayStation 2, with "Front Mission 4" and "Front Mission 5", the latter of which never saw a Western release, but a fan translation.
Star Wars video games
In 2003, "", a BioWare RPG that debuted on the Microsoft Xbox and PC. "Knights" (also known as KotOR among fans) was critically acclaimed, even winning "Game of the Year" at the Game Developers Choice Awards, (along with many other critics) in 2003. "" was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and released in 2004. KotOR II was praised for its cerebral writing and moral ambiguity, similar to The Empire Strikes Back. Another MMORPG titled "" was developed by BioWare, which released globally on December 20, 2011. Pre-orders went up for sale in July 2011 and open beta weekends were confirmed for September 2011."" (2004). "" in 2005.A third Star Wars 
Battlefront title was planned for 2006 but was cancelled. It is also to be noted that "" was released on November 3, 2009 for the Nintendo DS and the PSP. This is the first "Battlefront" game to offer a transition from space to ground battles at the players choice. After Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm and the restructuring of the "Star Wars" canon, the "Battlefront" series was rebooted by EA DICE.
Love Wars
Album
Freedom Suite (David S. Ware album)
Freedom Suite is an album by saxophonist David S. Ware featuring his interpretation of the Sonny Rollins composition which was recorded in 2002 and released on the AUM Fidelity label.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" via download and Disney Movies Anywhere on April 1, 2016, with a Blu-ray and DVD release on April 5. The home media release contains additional footage. As with the videodisc releases of all of the first six films in the saga, the videodisc release of "The Force Awakens" splits the film into fifty chapters. On March 23, 2016, the film was leaked online prior to its original Blu-ray release and was downloaded more than two million times in twelve hours.
Weird Wars
Weird Wars is a series of horror role-playing games set during past and future wars and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group. The original release, "Weird War II: Blood on the Rhine" was set during World War II, and utilized the D20 System. The second release, "Tour of Darkness" was set during the Vietnam War and employed the "Savage Worlds" rules set. 
A third release, also for "Savage Worlds", "Necropolis" was set in the future on a war torn planet.
Infinity Ward
Infinity Ward, Inc. is an American video game developer. They developed the video game "Call of Duty", along with six other installments in the "Call of Duty" series. Vince Zampella, Grant Collier, and Jason West established Infinity Ward in 2002 after working at 2015, Inc. previously. All of the 22 original team members of Infinity Ward came from the team that had worked on "" while at 2015, Inc. Activision helped fund Infinity Ward in its early days, buying up 30 percent of the company. The studio's first game, World War II shooter "Call of Duty", was released on the PC in 2003. The day after the game was released, Activision bought the rest of Infinity Ward, signing employees to long term contracts. Infinity Ward went on to make "Call of Duty 2", "", "", "", "" and most recently "".
Star Wars Trilogy
"Star Wars" was released on May 25, 1977. Its success led Lucas to make it the basis of an elaborate film serial. With the backstory he created for the sequel, Lucas decided that the series would be a trilogy of trilogies, with the original film retitled "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope" for its 1981 rerelease. "Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" was released on May 21, 1980, and "" on May 25, 1983. The sequels were self-financed by Lucasfilm, and generally advertised without the episodic number distinction present in their opening crawls. The plot of the original trilogy centers on the Galactic Civil War of the Rebel Alliance trying to free the galaxy from the clutches of the Galactic Empire, as well as on Luke Skywalker's quest to become a Jedi.
War of the Roses (video game)
War of the Roses is an action hack and slash video game developed by Fatshark and released by Paradox Interactive. The game is set during the Wars of the Roses which took place in England during the 15th century. It was released on 2 October 2012. "War of the Roses" was well received for its extensive customisation enabling character configurations to be tailored to very specific tastes and for its original 'control scheme to tackle a new kind of combat with the aim of creating a completely different experience'. The game shutdown on the 28th of February 2017.
Wars (series)
The Wars series, also known as in Japan, Advance Wars in the West, and occasionally Nintendo Wars as a whole, is a series of military turn-based tactics video games, usually developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. The series debuted in Japan on August 12, 1988. Like another Intelligent Systems series, "Fire Emblem", earlier installments of the series were released only in Japan; "Advance Wars" (2001) was the first to reach the North American and European markets. "Advance Wars" was released in the United States on September 10, 2001, but put on hold in Japan and Europe due to the following day's events. Although released in Europe in January 2002, neither GBA game was released in Japan until the "Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2" compilation which released for the Game Boy Advance on November 25, 2004 and for the Wii U Virtual Console on April 3, 2014.
LucasArts
The first "Star Wars" game announced under Electronic Arts' exclusive license was "Star Wars Battlefront", a reboot of the , developed by DICE. The game was released in the third quarter of 2015. The second game by Electronic Arts under their Star Wars license was a free to play mobile game titled "". It was announced at the 2015 E3 Expo, where it was announced as a collectible card game RPG. The game received a soft launch in Australia during October 2015, and was formally released on November 24, 2015.
Call of Duty: World at War
"Call of Duty: World at War" was released for the Nintendo DS on November 11, 2008 in North America, and on November 14 in Europe. It was published by Activision and developed by n-Space, who used the same game engine as their previous title, "". The game's scenarios are also based on World War II's Pacific theater and Eastern front with American, British and Soviet campaigns. Up to four players can be supported online with four different types of game, as well as perks and rank-ups. Compared to "Modern Warfare", it has improved in-level geometry, has more responsive sprints and crouches and 3D-modeled guns instead of 2D sprites. However the flamethrower, which is new to the game series, is rendered with 2D sprites. The framerate is just under 30 and has lots of voice-over during the missions. Players are able to defuse mines and send Morse code with the touch screen, as well as using mortar rounds, an anti-air gun from a battleship, parachuting and using mounted guns. There is also a tank mode which allows the player to turn the main gun and fire machine gun rounds at the same time.
War of the Ring (board game)
Since its first print-run it has been produced in many languages: Fantasy Flight Games published the English edition. It was released in 2004. An expansion called "Battles of the Third Age" was released in 2006 and a Collector's Edition in 2010 (with both the base game and expansion materials, hand-painted miniatures, a leather-bound rulebook, and corrected and clarified rules and cards). The Fantasy Flight edition of both the base game and expansion are currently out of print.
A new 2nd Edition, published by Ares Games, has been published in 2011 as well as one expansion entitled 'Lords of Middle Earth' and one called 'Warriors of Middle Earth'."War of the Ring" is a 2-player game that takes approximately 3 hours, though there are variant rules for 3 or 4 players where one or both sides play as a team. The game concerns the War of the Ring starting from the Fellowship's forming in Rivendell. One player controls the Shadow Peoples and tries to conquer Middle-earth or to corrupt the Fellowship's Ringbearer. The other player controls the Free Peoples and tries to hold back the Shadow long enough to move the Fellowship into Mount Doom and destroy the Ring. A Free Peoples military victory is also possible, but the Shadow's power is overwhelming.
Starfleet Wars
Starfleet Wars, a space battle game by Superior Models, Inc. featuring five races: Terrans, Entomalians, Avarians, Aquarians and Carnivorans. It was sold to Gamemasters in 1997, and then was off the market until Monday Knight Productions re-introduced it. Introduced in 1978 and designed by Wayne Smith and Ron Spicer, Starfleet Wars was a dice-rolling simultaneous-action spaceship war game with miniature lead figures.
Freedom Wars
It has a score of 73% on Metacritic. "Destructoid" called "Freedom Wars" the biggest PS Vita release in 2014. IGN's Colin Moriarty writes that the game features plenty of content to keep the player occupied, and never forces them to play alone or online, allowing the player to choose their own pace progressing through the game. "Hardcore Gamer" rated the game 3.5 out of 5, describing it as a solid action RPG with good premise and deep themes, albeit feeling repetitive at times. "PlayStation Universe" gave "Freedom Wars" an 8.5/10 score, noting that the narrative and customisation were positive aspects, even though the endgame relies on a large amount of grinding. "PS Nation" notes that the singleplayer and multiplayer modes are enjoyable overall, and that the game plays well on a PlayStation TV device, giving a score of 9/10.
Freedom (2004 film)
Freedom is a 2004 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Thampi Kannanthanam, starring Jishnu and Nithya Das in the lead role.
Free Birds
Free Birds is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated buddy comedy film about two turkeys traveling back in time to prevent Thanksgiving. It was produced by Reel FX Creative Studios as its first theatrical fully animated feature film. Jimmy Hayward directed the film, which he also co-wrote with Scott Mosier, the film's producer. The film stars the voices of Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler with supporting roles done by George Takei, Colm Meaney, Keith David, and Dan Fogler. Originally titled "Turkeys", and scheduled for 2014, the film was released on November 1, 2013, by Relativity Media. The film received negative reviews from critics and earned $110 million on a $55 million budget.
Freedom Wars
"Freedom Wars" takes place on Earth, in the year 102014. The world surface lies in ruins and is no longer capable of supporting life. As such, humans live in underground cities called "Panopticons", where they struggle to research how to be able to live on the surface once more. A Panopticon functions as an artificial nation in the form of a city state that provides security for its inhabitants, in exchange for contributions each inhabitant is obligated to make towards the state. This system forms the overall societal structure of each separate Panopticon, which were created following the disintegration and demise of countries. Due to lack of resources, each Panopticon has developed conflicts with others, and large portions of the populace are forced into serving sentences in order for these cities to maintain effective control. All inhabitants of a Panopticon are constantly watched by the state to ensure they abide by the draconian laws put into place, essentially forming a collective of dystopian surveillance societies at war with one another.
Free Willy (franchise)
Free Willy is a film franchise from Warner Bros. The first installment, "Free Willy", was released on July 16, 1993, the second, "", was released on July 19, 1995, and the third film, "", was released on August 8, 1997; these first three films were produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and distributed by Warner Bros. The fourth installment, "" (released March 2010), was directed by Will Geiger and distributed by Warner Premiere.
Cold War (1979–1985)
Dozens of the board wargames were published covering both historical and hypothetical conflicts at scales ranging from man-to-man to global thermonuclear war. Historical conflicts include the Falklands War, the Iran–Iraq War, the invasion of Grenada, and the Angolan Civil War. The vast majority of titles concerned contemporary World War III "what-if" scenarios wherein the Cold War turns hot and focused on a presumed Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe. Notable games include "Ultimatum" (1979), "The China War" (1979), "NATO Division Commander" (1980), "Fifth Corps" series (1980), and "MechWar 2" (1980), "Task Force" (1981), "Harpoon" (1983), "Silo 14" (1983), "Assault" series (1983), "Gulf Strike" (1983), "Firepower" (1984), "The Third World War" series (1984), "Air Cav" (1985) and "Main Battle Area" (1985).
Freedom Road
Freedom Road was a 1979 American TV historical drama mini-series starring boxer Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson, based on the 1944 novel by Howard Fast and directed by Jan Kadar. Running for four hours, it was first broadcast on NBC on October 29 and 30, 1979.
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game
Star Wars: X-Wing is a miniature war game designed by Jay Little and produced by Fantasy Flight Games that was released at Gen Con in 2012. It features tactical ship-to-ship dogfighting between various types of starfighters set in the fictional "Star Wars" universe. The game is said to be easy to learn and quick to play taking anywhere between 15 and 60 minutes from first set-up to battle's end. Each round both players give all their ships movement orders without knowing what their opponent is doing before resolving these orders while trying to shoot down enemy craft. On May 1, 2018 FFG announced X-Wing Second Edition, to be released on September 13, 2018. Although the physical models would be transferable, an entire new set of rules, templates, and markers will be produced and available through a new core set, waves, and conversion packs.
Freedom Wars
A teaser trailer for the game was released on , which led to the assumption that the game would be named "Panopticon". On , the game was revealed to actually be named "Freedom Wars". Development for the game began in March 2011, two years before it was first announced to the public in 2013. According to Junichi Yoshizawa, development was distributed amongst the various studios involved; Shift was allocated the task of game and character design, in addition to storywriting, whilst Dimps was responsible for programming, graphics and direction. On , the first playable open beta test of the game was released on the Japanese PlayStation Network.
Freeway Fighter
Freeway Fighter is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Ian Livingstone, illustrated by Kevin Bulmer and originally published in 1985 by Puffin Books. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2005. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's "Fighting Fantasy" series. It is the 13th in the series in the original Puffin series () and 23rd in the modern Wizard series ().
Troma's War
Troma's War, also known as 1,000 Ways to Die in the United States, is a 1988 American action/adventure film written by Lloyd Kaufman and Mitchell Dana and directed by Michael Herz and Kaufman (credited as Samuel Weil). It began production in 1986 and was released in theaters in 1988 shortly after "Class of Nuke 'Em High" was done making its rounds at the box office.
Star Wars
"" was released on May 19, 1999, and "" on May 16, 2002, both to mixed reviews. "", the first film in the franchise, was released on May 19, 2005. The plot of the trilogy focuses on the fall of the Galactic Republic, the formation of the Empire, and the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker's turn to the dark side.
Freedom Fighters (role-playing game)
"Freedom Fighters" was one of the last role-playing games published by FGU.
Future Wars
Future Wars, subtitled in Europe as Time Travellers and in North America as Adventures in Time and known in France as Time Travelers: The Menace () is an adventure game from Delphine Software International, released in 1989. The game is mainly the work of Paul Cuisset (story and programming) and Éric Chahi (graphics). The game was supposed to be the first of a series of adventure games revolving around time traveling but later episodes were never made.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (video game)
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a video game developed and published by LucasArts. Primarily a third-person shooter, the game also utilizes multiple types of vehicular combat sequences. It was released for the Nintendo 64 on December 3, 1996, and a version for Windows 95 was released on September 17, 1997. The game was re-released for Windows systems on May 3, 2016 through Good Old Games. The re-release allows the game to play on 64-bit Windows installations.
Star Wars: Empire at War
"Star Wars: Empire at War" was first mentioned in 2004, by then-president of LucasArts Jim Ward. He discussed the possibility of a RTS video game set in the "Star Wars" universe, stating "...there's a bright future there for games based on these new properties as well as original Star Wars games like a new real-time strategy PC game that Petroglyph is developing for next year". Ward described the game as taking the real-time strategy genre in a new direction and outlined plans to balance the gameplay between hardcore games and audiences familiar with the "Star Wars" franchise. The game was unveiled by LucasArts on January 21, 2005 with an original release date set for the end of 2005. LucasArts said that the newly formed Petroglyph Games would be developing an original 3-D game engine, titled Alamo, for "Star Wars: Empire at War" and that the game would support online battles for up to eight players.
Freedom Fighters (role-playing game)
Freedom Fighters is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1986.
Halo Wars
Halo Wars is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. It was released in Japan and Australia on February 26, 2009; in Europe on February 27; and in North America on March 3. The game is set in the science fiction universe of the "Halo" series in the year 2531, 21 years before the events of "". The player leads human soldiers aboard the warship "Spirit of Fire" in an effort to stop an ancient fleet of ships from falling into the hands of the genocidal alien Covenant.
Star Wars Miniatures
Star Wars Miniatures premiered on September 3, 2004. The first set, "Rebel Storm," was released at that time and was followed up by "Clone Strike," which came out December 4, 2004. April 9, 2005 brought the third set release, titled "Revenge of the Sith", with the "Universe" expansion set in August that, hitting stores on August 27 that year. Later "Champions of the Force" was released on June 10, 2006. The "Bounty Hunters" set was released in September 2006, followed by "Starships Battles" in November. The special 30th anniversary set, "Alliance and Empire," was released May 2007. "Force Unleashed" set has been released in November 2007. "Legacy of the Force" was released on March 28, 2008. "Knights of the Old Republic" was released in Summer 2008, followed by "Clone Wars" in the late Fall of that year. Early 2009 included "Imperial Entanglements" which was followed in June by "Jedi Academy". "Galaxy at War" in October rounded out the 2009 collection, with "Dark Times" to follow in January/February 2010. The final official set released by Wizards of the Coast was "Masters of the Force", released April 2010. The sets released from "Rebel Storm" to "Knights of the Old Republic" have featured 60 fully constructed and fully painted miniature figures from different eras and settings of the Star Wars timeline. From "Clone Wars" onward, sets feature a total of 40 pieces.
List of BioWare video games
BioWare was given the opportunity to work on another popular intellectual property, "Star Wars", when LucasArts approached them at the turn of the millennium.
"" released first on Microsoft's Xbox video game console in 2003. While it was not BioWare's first console game, it helped the studio break into the console market since Microsoft Game Studios wanted to partner with them on console exclusive titles, such as "Jade Empire" (2005) and "Mass Effect" (2007). In March 2006, BioWare expanded their operations and opened a new studio in Austin, Texas, to helm the development of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). In October 2007, American publisher Electronic Arts (EA) announced that it had acquired BioWare. Under EA, BioWare established the fantasy RPG series "Dragon Age", continued to release games in their science fiction RPG series "Mass Effect", and opened a new studio in Montreal. They also revisited the "Star Wars" franchise with BioWare Austin's MMORPG "" (2011).
True Liberty
The band commenced as a musical entity in 2005, with their release, "This Is War", a studio album, that was released by Raging Storm Records in 2007. Their next album, "Brotherhood", was released independently, in 2008. They released, "City of the One", with Wounded Records, on June 15, 2010. Their subsequent studio album, "Marked for Life", was released by Thumper Punk Records, on May 22, 2012. The first live album, "Give Me True Liberty or Give Me Death", was released by Thumper Punk Records, on May 22, 2014.Previous Members
Tim Liberty ( bass)
Allen Bays (bass)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (stylized as Call of Duty: MW3) is a first-person shooter video game, jointly developed by Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games, with assistance from Raven Software, and published by Activision. The game was released worldwide in November 2011 for Microsoft Windows, the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii. It is the third installment in the "Modern Warfare" saga, a direct sequel to 2009's "", and the eighth "Call of Duty" installment. A for the Nintendo DS was developed by n-Space, while Treyarch developed the game's Wii port. In Japan, Square Enix published the game with a separate subtitled and dubbed version.
Fantasy Wars
Fantasy Wars (; formerly "Mythic Wars") is a fantasy turn-based tactical video game developed by Russian studio Ino-Co and published by 1C Company. The game was released through GamersGate on October 2, 2007. "Fantasy Wars" features four playable races (humans, orcs, elves and dwarves). The single-player story includes three campaigns, taking place over a series of tactical hex maps. The game uses a 3D game engine and includes role-playing video game gameplay features such as experience points and skills.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It was released worldwide on November 10, 2009 for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. A version for OS X was developed by Aspyr and released on May 20, 2014. The Xbox 360 version was made backward compatible for the Xbox One in 2018. It is the sixth installment of the "Call of Duty" series and the direct sequel to "", continuing the same storyline. It was released in conjunction with two other "Call of Duty" games: "" for the Nintendo DS, and "", a port of "Call of Duty 4" adapted by Treyarch for the Wii console.
Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Advance Wars: Dual Strike, known in Japan as , is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the third installment in the "Advance Wars" series (first on DS media) and was released in Japan on June 23, 2005, in North America on August 22, 2005, in Europe on September 30, 2005, and in Australia on March 22, 2006. The game is preceded by "" and "Advance Wars" and succeeded by "". "Advance Wars" is the international title of the "Wars" video game series, which dates back to the Family Computer game "Famicom Wars" in 1988.
The Wars
A feature film version of "The Wars" was released in 1983. The film was directed by Robin Phillips from a screenplay written by Findley, and starred Brent Carver as Robert Ross. It received three Genie Awards from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television in 1984, in the categories of Best Achievement in Sound Editing (Sharon Lackie, Bruce Nyznik, and Bernard Bordeleau), Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Martha Henry), and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Jackie Burroughs), and was nominated for four more in the categories of Best Picture, Best Achievement in Film Editing (Tony Lower), Best Achievement in Overall Sound (Hans Peter Strobl), and Best Screenplay (Findley).
Radio Wars (album)
Release history
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" premiered in Los Angeles at the TCL Chinese Theatre, El Capitan Theatre and Dolby Theatre on December 14, 2015. A white tent stretched along Hollywood Boulevard from Orange Drive to Highland Avenue, covering the "massive" premiere event that hosted more than five thousand guests. The film was released in 12 countries, including European nations (such as Italy and France, releasing it on a Wednesday), the Philippines and Thailand on December 16; 32 countries including the United Kingdom (releasing on a Thursday), Mexico and additional European, Asian, African, South American and Oceania countries on December 17; and in North America, Japan, Spain, and Venezuela on December 18, in 3D and IMAX 3D. It was released in India on December 25 and in China on January 9, 2016.
Freedom Force (2002 video game)
From January to June 2005, the story of the first "Freedom Force" game was retold in a six-issue comic book miniseries published by Image Comics. This series was scripted by Eric Dieter and featured Jack Kirby-influenced artwork by Tom Scioli. Dieter also wrote the series "bible" and served as community manager for the official website's forum, "Freedom Fans".
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
In November 1998, a month before the game's scheduled release, LucasArts signed a worldwide agreement with Nintendo concerning three new "Star Wars" video games. It granted Nintendo the rights to market the games and hold exclusive, worldwide distribution rights for five years following each release. "Rogue Squadron" was the first game released under this agreement.
Flames of Freedom
Flames of Freedom (also known as Midwinter II: Flames of Freedom) is a first-person shooter action role-playing game with simulation elements developed by Maelstrom Games and published by MicroProse for the PC DOS, Amiga and Atari ST in 1991. It is a sequel to the 1989 game "Midwinter" and its working title was "Wildfire". The Amiga version was re-released by Kixx XL in 1993.
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
LucasArts offered a pre-release demo on two floppy disks bundled with "Computer Gaming World". The single-mission demo, sponsored by Dodge and featuring an ad for the Dodge Neon, advertises a spring 1994 "TIE Fighter" release. However, "TIE Fighter" was not released until July 1994, 17 months after "X-Wing"s debut. The "Defender of the Empire" expansion, which adds three battles, came out soon thereafter. Later that year, LucasArts released a Collector’s CD-ROM version of "X-Wing" using "TIE Fighter"s updated graphics engine.
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom is the fourth main game in the "Wing Commander" science fiction space combat simulator video game series, produced by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts for the PC in 1996 and the Sony PlayStation in 1997 (the game was also released on the North American PlayStation Network Store in 2009).
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (series)
"Star Wars: The Old Republic" (SWTOR) was released for the Microsoft Windows platform on December 20, 2011 in North America and Europe, and released in Australia on March 1, 2012. The game was developed by BioWare, who developed the first Knights of the Old Republic game. It takes place 300 years after the first two installments, as new conflicts arise between the Republic and the Sith Empire. Players participate in a period of time known as the Cold War in the galaxy, after the First Great Galactic War, which leads into events in the Second Great Galactic War.
Star Wars video games
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With the 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Disney Company, it was announced that LucasArts' development arm would stop making video games indefinitely. On May 6, 2013, Disney and Lucasfilm revealed a partnership with Electronic Arts that granted EA the rights to produce "Star Wars" games for consoles and PC, with Disney retaining the freedom to handle the games for mobile platforms, such as smartphones, tablets and browsers. Later on April 2014, most of the previous licensed "Star Wars" videogames, novels, comics produced since the originating 1977 film "Star Wars" were rebranded as "Star Wars Legends" and declared non-canon to the franchise in April 2014.
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (known as Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D on the PC) is an arcade-style action game co-developed by Factor 5 and LucasArts. The first of three games in the , it was published by LucasArts and Nintendo and released for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo 64 in December 1998. "Rogue Squadron" was one of the first games to take advantage of the Nintendo 64's Expansion Pak, which allows gameplay at a higher display resolution.
Wars (series)
In 2005, "" was released on the Nintendo DS platform, which follows the basic form of its predecessors. That same year "Battalion Wars", developed by Kuju Entertainment, was released for the Nintendo GameCube in Japan under the title ""Totsugeki!! Famicom Wars"", where it is considered a spin-off from the main series. "Battalion Wars" is a 3D action real-time strategy game, as opposed to the turn-based strategy of the main series.
Guild Wars
Guild Wars is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) series developed by ArenaNet and published by NCSOFT. The games were critically well received and won many editor's choice awards, as well as awards such as Best Value, Best Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), and Best Game. "Guild Wars" was noted for being the "first major MMO to adopt a business model not based on monthly subscription fees", its instanced approach to gameplay, and the quality of the graphics and play for computers with low specifications. In April 2009, NCSoft announced that 6 million units of games in the "Guild Wars" series had been sold. The sequel, "Guild Wars 2", was announced in March 2007 and released on August 28 2012. It features updated graphics and gameplay mechanics, and continues the original "Guild Wars" tradition of no subscription fees. The "Guild Wars" series had sold 11.5 million copies by August 2015.
Star Wars: Battlefront
On September 29, 2006, "Computer and Video Games" made an unconfirmed claim that Free Radical Design was developing the third game in the "Star Wars: Battlefront" series, titled "Star Wars: Battlefront III". In June 2008, Kotaku allegedly received information from a former LucasArts employee that "Star Wars: Battlefront III" was in the creation process. On October 2, Activision Blizzard filed a classification with the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification listing "Star Wars: Battlefront III" for the Nintendo DS with a PG rating (E10+ equivalent) for mild animated violence. However, that same month, Free Radical Design announced that they lost the rights to develop "Star Wars: Battlefront III"; the game at that point had been in development for two years. Several years later, Free Radical Design co-founder Steve Ellis said "Battlefront III" was "pretty much done" in 2008, but that it was effectively canned when LucasArts could not commit to "spend big" on marketing it. However, GameSpot quoted an unnamed LucasArts employee involved with the project who said Free Radical could not devote sufficient resources to the game and regularly missed deadlines. A former Free Radical Design employee said some of the technology Free Radical developed for the game, specifically the contiguous game environment from planet surface into space, "is dying with us".
Controversies surrounding Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
"" is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. Released worldwide on November 10, 2009, it generated several controversies. In the game's fourth level, "No Russian", the player controls an undercover CIA agent who participates in a mass shooting at a Moscow airport to gain the trust of a Russian terrorist group. This level was largely criticized for allowing players to partake in a terrorist attack, and international versions of the game were subject to censorship due to the level's content. Allegations of homophobic content arose when Infinity Ward released a video titled "Fight Against Grenade Spam". Some video game journalists chastised the video's use of profanity, and that the video's title forms the acronym F.A.G.S., a pejorative for gay people. In response, Infinity Ward removed the video from YouTube. An easter egg referencing the United States policy "don't ask, don't tell" was also seen as homophobic, though most journalists belittled these allegations. The Windows version of the game was also met with criticism from players, when it was revealed that the game would not support dedicated servers among a litany of other changes. Windows players created an online petition to allow for dedicated servers, receiving over 150,000 signatures in ten days. However, despite these controversies, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" grossed $310 million in its first day of release.
Star Wars: Battlefront
The series was launched in 2004 by LucasArts with "", developed by Pandemic Studios for LucasArts. The game received positive reviews and sold well. In 2005 Pandemic developed a sequel, "", which was also critically and commercially successful. The games were followed by "" (2007) and "" (2009) for handheld consoles and "" for mobile devices. LucasArts made several attempts to get a third major "Battlefront" game off the ground but no projects were released before The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of LucasArts. Subsequently, EA DICE acquired a license to develop a new game, titled "Star Wars Battlefront" which was released on November 17, 2015. A sequel, "Star Wars Battlefront II", was released on November 17, 2017, and was developed by EA DICE, Criterion Games, and Motive Studios.
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos, released as Edge of Chaos: Independence War 2 in Europe, is a sequel to the space combat simulator video game "Independence War" (also known as "I-War" in Europe). Developed by Particle Systems - the developers of the first game - and published by Infogrames, the game was released in 2001, and re-released in 2010 on GOG.com. It was nominated for an interactive BAFTA award for its soundtrack which was composed by Christopher Mann.
Cry Freedom
Cry Freedom is a 1987 British-South African epic drama film directed by Richard Attenborough, set in late-1970s apartheid era South Africa. The screenplay was written by John Briley based on a pair of books by journalist Donald Woods. The film centres on the real-life events involving black activist Steve Biko and his friend Donald Woods, who initially finds him destructive, and attempts to understand his way of life. Denzel Washington stars as Biko, while actor Kevin Kline portrays Woods. "Cry Freedom" delves into the ideas of discrimination, political corruption, and the repercussions of violence.
Star Wars Battlefront (2015 video game)
Star Wars Battlefront is an action shooter video game developed by EA DICE, with additional work from Criterion Games, and published by Electronic Arts. The game, based on the "Star Wars" franchise, is the third major release in the "" sub-series, and is considered a reboot to the previous games, instead of a sequel, to reflect the new "Star Wars" canon that Lucasfilm established (to replace the Star Wars expanded universe) after being acquired by The Walt Disney Company. The game was released worldwide in November 2015 and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its gameplay, visuals, musical scores and high production values, but criticized its lack of content on both single and multiplayer modes. More than 14 million copies have been shipped. A sequel, "Star Wars Battlefront II", released on November 17, 2017.
Freedom: First Resistance
Freedom: First Resistance is a third-person action-adventure video game for PC. The game was published by Red Storm Entertainment and released in the United States on 13 December 2000. The game is based on Anne McCaffrey's trilogy of novels titled the "Catteni Series" (also known as "Freedom Series"). In December 2000, prior to the game's release, GameSpot reported that the game had gone "gold" and would be released later that month.
Freewar
Freewar (short "FW") is a browser-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Intercycloon, a German software development team. Since 2003, its development has been led by the initiator of the "hobby" project, Jirko Cernik. In total there are 14 to 17 different servers and more than 100,000 registered accounts. Freewar is one of the most popular German browser-based games. The game is set in a medieval fantasy world. It is similar to Darkfleet, which is set in the same universe but occurs 10,000 years later. The game is available in two languages, German and English.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (sometimes known simply as Knights of the Old Republic or KOTOR) is a role-playing video game set in the "Star Wars" universe. Developed by BioWare and published by LucasArts, the game was released for the Xbox on July 15, 2003, and for Microsoft Windows on November 19, 2003. The game was later ported to Mac OS X, iOS, and Android by Aspyr, and it is playable on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One via their respective backwards-compatibility features.
Artillery game
With the increased presence of IBM-compatible PCs came the arrival of artillery games to the platform. In 1988, "Artillery Combat", or "EGAbomb", was released by Rad Delaroderie, written in Turbo BASIC, and was later distributed by RAD Software. Following in 1990, "Tank Wars" was released by Kenny Morse and published by Microforum for MS-DOS-based PCs. "Tank Wars" introduced the concept of buying weapons and multiple AI computer-player tanks to the artillery game. "Gravity Wars" was a conversion of the Amiga game of the same name that took the artillery game into space, introducing a 2D gravity field around planets, a format that has also inspired multiple re-makes.
Freedom (Amen Dunes album)
Freedom is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Amen Dunes. It was released on March 30, 2018 by Sacred Bones Records.
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in for MS-DOS and Macintosh, and in for the PlayStation. The storyline is set in the "Star Wars" fictional universe and follows the character Kyle Katarn, a mercenary working on behalf of the Rebel Alliance. He discovers the Empire's "Dark Trooper Project", which involves the development of a series of powerful new battle droids and power-armored stormtroopers.
Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon
Tiffany Ternan, senior vice president of North American sales and distribution at THQ, said they were "extremely pleased to be publishing the latest "Star Wars" videogame for Game Boy Advance. The broad appeal of the "Star Wars" franchise makes it a great addition to our leading portfolio of handheld games." Liz Allen, director of marketing for LucasArts, added that "Flight of the Falcon" "will once again offer Game Boy Advance players an opportunity to experience all the drama and exhilaration of the Star Wars universe. LucasArts is happy to work with THQ to bring this compelling new title to "Star Wars" game fans everywhere." "Flight of the Falcon" was developed by Pocket Studios. The first screenshots from the game were published by the video-gaming website IGN on August 28, 2003.
Sword of Freedom
Sword of Freedom was a 1958 drama adventure series for a family audience. Like several of its predecessors (most notably "The Adventures of Robin Hood"), it was produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and fitted into the same swashbuckler genre as previous productions. It ran for 39 half-hour monochrome episodes.
Freedom Wars
The player assumes the role of a young male/female customisable protagonist who received a prison sentence of 1,000,000 years for "the crime of living" upon his/her birth. While in a restricted area deep within the Panopticon, the protagonist stumbles upon and rescues a captive woman named Beatrice Anastasi from a secret facility. She is a human from , a city-state that exists in the sky which has a high degree of civilization and technological prowess that frequently makes incursions and assaults against the humans living on the earth, during events known as . Eventually the protagonist's Panopticon comes under attack from the hostile Hourai Panopticon, home to Abel Balt, one of the world's most powerful criminals.
Freedom Fighters (role-playing game)
"Freedom Fighters" was designed by J. Andrew Keith, with art by William H. Keith, Jr., and was published in 1986 by Fantasy Games Unlimited as a boxed set with a 96-page book, an 80-page book, a 32-page book, a cardstock screen, a sample character record sheet, and dice.
Colony Wars
Colony Wars is a space combat simulator video game for the PlayStation developed and released by Psygnosis in 1997. In it, players complete space combat missions using preselected starfighters equipped with various weapons. The game features multiple paths of missions and outcomes, depending on the player's performance. It was later followed by "" in 1998, and "" in 2000.
Dynasty Wars
Dynasty Wars is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up arcade game released in 1989 by Capcom, based on a Japanese manga "Tenchi wo Kurau" and a reenactment of the battle between the Kingdom of Shu and the Yellow Turban rebels. Each of the two players can assume the roles of one of the four Chinese generals riding on horseback from the Three Kingdoms period in an attempt to smash the rebellion.
Empire: Total War
Empire: Total War is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. The fifth installment in the "Total War" series, the game was released in 2009. The game, which focuses on the early modern period of the 18th century, was announced at the Leipzig Games Convention in August 2007. The Mac OS X version of the game was released by Feral Interactive on 10 June 2014. The Linux version was released, also by Feral Interactive, on 8 December 2014.
Battle Cry of Freedom (book)
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the American Civil War, published in 1988, by James M. McPherson. It is the sixth volume of the "Oxford History of the United States" series. An abridged, illustrated version of the book was published in 2003.
Love Wars
Singles
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
In July 2000, BioWare announced that they were working with LucasArts to create a Star Wars role-playing video game for the PC and next-generation consoles. Joint BioWare CEO Greg Zeschuk commented that "The opportunity to create a richly detailed new chapter in the Star Wars universe is incredibly exciting for us. We are honored to be working with the extremely talented folks at Lucas Arts, developing a role-playing game based upon one of the most high-profile licenses in the world." The game was officially unveiled as "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" at E3 2001. At this point, the game had been in development for around six months. "Preproduction started in 2000, but the discussions started back in 1999," LucasArts' Mike Gallo said, "The first actual e-mails were in October or November of '99. That's when we first started talking to BioWare. But some really serious work finally started at the beginning of 2000."
The decision to set the game four thousand years before "" was one of the first details about the game made known. LucasArts gave BioWare a choice of settings for the game. "LucasArts came to us and said that we could do an game," BioWare CEO Raymond Muzyka said. "Or LucasArts said we could go 4,000 years back, which is a period that's hardly been covered before." BioWare chose to set the game four thousand years before the films as it gave them greater creative freedom. They aimed to create content similar to that from the films but different enough to be a definite precursor. Concept work had to be sent to "the ranch" to be approved for use. Muzyka noted that very little of their content was rejected: "It was more like, 'Can you just make his head like this rather than like that.' So it was all very feasible. There were good suggestions made and they made the game better, so we were happy to do them. It was a good process really and I think we were pleasantly surprised how easy LucasArts was to work with." Zeschuk said that "Overall, we were really happy with the results. We felt like we had enough freedom to truly create something wonderful."
Fighting for Freedom
Fighting for Freedom is an American drama film written by Chris Loken and directed by Farhad Mann. Starring Kristanna Loken, Bruce Dern, José María Yazpik and Patricia De León. The film premiered in New York on September 12, 2013 at the Fairview Plaza Cinema 3. It had its Los Angeles premiere October 18, 2013 at the Laemmle NoHo 7. On December 3, 2013 the film was released on DVD. Loken Mann Productions is the production company for the film. Grand Entertainment Group is the distribution company for the DVD. "Fighting for Freedom" portrays the complex illegal immigration crisis to meet the Salazar family and the Dobbe family that employs them.
Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game
Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game set in the "Star Wars" universe, written and published by West End Games (WEG) between 1987 and 1999. The game system was slightly modified and rereleased in 2004 as "D6 Space", which used a generic space opera setting. An unrelated "Star Wars" RPG was published by Wizards of the Coast from 2000 to 2010. Since 2012 the official "Star Wars" role-playing game is another unrelated game, published by Fantasy Flight Games.
Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Fantasy Flight Games)
In the 2000s, Wizards of the Coast (WotC) owned the license for all "Star Wars"' collectible card and roleplaying games. When the license expired in May 2010, WotC declined the offer to renew it. In August 2011 Fantasy Flight Games acquired the license to produce "Star Wars" related games from Lucasfilm Ltd. Upon acquisition, Fantasy Flight announced two "Star Wars" gaming products: the miniatures game "X-Wing" and the card game "Star Wars: The Card Game". A role-playing game was rumored to be in the works until a year later, in August 2012, when the Fantasy Flight announced the publication of "Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. Edge of the Empire" was to be the first standalone game in a series of three, constituting the Fantasy Flight Games "Star Wars" Roleplaying Game. The first installment of the "trilogy" was first sold in a beta version ("Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Beta") in late 2012. The completed version of "Edge of the Empire", nearly double the size of the beta, was released on June 25, 2013. "Age of Rebellion"s beta version was released in October 2013, a beginner set released on April 25, 2014, and the final version of the game, the "Age of Rebellion" core rulebook, released on July 3, 2014. The third line of products, "Star Wars: Force and Destiny", for playing Jedi characters, was released in beta in September 2014.