- Disney yank a bunch of games from Steam, including bonafide classics Star Wars: Dark Forces, Outlaws and High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance - 14 April 2026
A bunch of older games linked to or published by Disney have just been delisted from Steam in one fell swoop, with the original 90s versions of Star Wars: Dark Forces and Outlaws among their number. These 15 make up the second round of Disney-related games to be yanked from the storefront this year, with 14 having gotten the hook back in January. Read more
- The circle is now complete: The developer of an open-source port of Dark Forces who consulted on the Nightdive Remaster is working on putting the remaster back in the source port - 29 July 2024
First reported by GamingOnLinux , we're getting a bit of retro FPS source port turducken courtesy of Force Engine creator luciusDXL. The developer's expertise on Dark Forces led him to consult with Nightdive on its Kex Engine remaster of the classic Star Wars FPS. Now luciusDXL has started adding support for the remaster's improvements back into the Force Engine... Read more.
- Star Wars: Dark Forces' box art showed a level that wasn't in the game: nearly 30 years later, we can finally play it thanks to the remaster - 1 March 2024
Nightdive Studios' quality remaster of Star Wars: Dark Forces is an excellent way to revisit Kyle Katarn's first adventure, a landmark FPS that would give rise to some of the best lightsaber action games ever. As pointed out by the Twitter account of Dark Forces/Jedi Knight fan site df-21.net , the remaster also preserves a bit of FPS history with its restoration of cut level, the ISD Avenger... Read more.
- Remastered classic Star Wars FPS gets official Steam Deck status - 26 January 2024
The long-awaited Star Wars Dark Forces remaster is due for release next month, but its Steam Deck status has already been confirmed. Full verification has been given by Valve, and it's great to see this news reported long before release, rather than leaving it as a release day reveal. The best Steam Deck games all wear the verified badge of honor as it indicates that the game should run natively on Valve's pocket powerhouse with next to no adjustment needed. Now, we know that Star Wars Dark Forces remastered has also earned this verification, which should get fans excited ahead of its release. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Palworld Steam Deck compatibility, settings, and the mod you need Best gaming monitor 2024 Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth Steam Deck compatibility and settings
- Nightdive says Dark Forces has been 'difficult to change' because LucasArts created its own version of multi-threading years before it became popular - 13 November 2023
Star Wars: Dark Forces is the latest nineties' PC gaming classic to receive an overhaul from remastering maestros Nightdive Studios. But as this month's PC Gamer magazine reveals, LucasArts' shooter has proved unusually challenging from a technical perspective. Speaking to PCG's print editor Robert Jones, Nightdive's project lead on Dark Forces explains the game features a homebrew equivalent to modern multi-threading that was years ahead of its time... Read more.
- Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster comes to Steam in February - 24 October 2023
Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster , the next big overhaul from Nightdive Studios, is set to arrive on Steam and consoles on February 28, 2024... Read more.
- Beloved Star Wars game Dark Forces is back, nearly 30 years on - 23 August 2023
The Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster finally gives one of the best Star Wars games , albeit often one of the more underappreciated entries, the love it truly deserves. As the origin point for the beloved Jedi Knight series, Star Wars Dark Forces is a classic of the '90s, blending Doom and Star Wars to make something truly memorable that has stood the test of time. Now Nightdive Studios, the studio behind the recent Quake 2 Remastered and the System Shock Enhanced Editions, is bringing it back in full 4K, 120fps glory. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: One of the best Star Wars games may be getting a remaster This Duke Nukem and Dark Forces mashup is the Star Wars game you need Star Wars Dark Forces is being remade in Unreal by an Obsidian dev
- Classic '90s shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces is getting the Nightdive remaster treatment - 23 August 2023
Star Wars: Dark Forces was the first big film tie-in first-person shooter, and it was hugely impressive upon release in 1995. It wasn't as fast and bloody as Doom but it was definitely Star Wars, and that's what mattered most. It captured the spirit of the films really well, and with some fascinating tech trimmings to boot: the Jedi Engine allowed for some ambitious level design... Read more.
- After 3 years of work, modders have remastered the first Star Wars FPS - 19 December 2022
Star Wars: Dark Forces, the first Star Wars FPS and predecessor to the Jedi Knight series, has finally gotten the ZDoom treatment. Developers luciusDXL, winterheart, and gilmorem560 have released the 1.0 build of the Force Engine , an open source reverse engineering of Dark Forces (and soon, its lesser known cousin, Outlaws) that lets you play it with modern conveniences and at high resolution... Read more.
- Star Wars: Dark Forces is getting a fan remake from an Obsidian developer - 18 March 2019
A senior environment artist at Obsidian, Jason Lewis, is creating a fan remake of Star Wars: Dark Forces, which introduced the world to Kyle Katarn and the joys of shooting Stormtroopers in first-person back in 1995. So far, he's been able to make a recreation of the first level that can be traversed from start to finish, screenshots of which can be found on his Artstation page .  It's shaping up very nicely, especially when compared to its predecessor from two-decades prior. As well as exteriors, Lewis has been working on the interiors of the Empire's base, which look appropriately menacing and shiny. In his most recent update , posted three months ago, he said the environments were mostly done.  We need fodder for our blasters, of course, so the next challenge is making a Stormtrooper. Lewis isn't a character artist, so he says he'll need help with t…
- Nightdive wants to talk to Disney about remastering Star Wars: Dark Forces - 18 January 2019
These are disappointingly barren times for Star Wars games: only two Battlefronts (and a mobile game) have been released since EA acquired the licence back in 2013. Earlier this week, too, it was rumoured that the company's open world project had been killed , following the earlier cancellation of Visceral's Ragtag project. This is all happening during the peak of 21st century interest in Star Wars. I hoped we'd be drowning in new Star Wars games by now, and reader, we are not. There are numerous missed opportunities here—though I'm looking forward to Respawn's Jedi: Fallen Order .  Nightdive Studio, which remastered games like System Shock and Turok for PC and is currently working on the System Shock remake, wants to help in our hour of need. The studio's CEO Stephen Kick took to Twitter a couple of days ago to express interest in giving a rema…
- Compatibility Patch Update - 19 March 2018
Minor bug fixes and optimized performance, including support for the Macintosh.
- Compatibility Patch Update - 19 March 2018
Minor bug fixes and optimized performance, including support for the Macintosh.
- Four ways that Rogue One plays homage to Star Wars PC games - 21 December 2016
The following article contains plot details for Star Wars: Rogue One. This is a strange time to be a Star Wars fan, particularly if you were a devotee of the books, games and comics that sustained the series in the mid-1990s. When Disney axed the Expanded Universe back in 2014, it felt like the final spasm in a prolonged death that had begun with The Phantom Menace fifteen years prior. The EU was allowed to inform small aspects of this new Star Wars, but throughout the noughties its influence sharply waned. The prequels represented the triumph of LucasFilm's merchandising arm over its story group. How could a Disney-led reboot be any different? Yet here we are. Rogue One is a tonal u-turn for Star Wars, a return to the look and feel of the old Expanded Universe if not its specific plot beats. We're back to a Star Wars that feels like a lived-in universe rather than a greenscre…
- Eight must-watch PC speedruns from Summer Games Done Quick - 12 July 2016
When you beat games quick, you tend to beat a lot of games. This year's Summer Games Done Quick speedrunners tore through dozens of PC games, and even if you had the stream on all week like we did, you probably missed some amazing runs. Below we've compiled a selection of our favorites: mostly classic PC RPGs and shooters, capped off by an inspiring one-handed run by Halfcoordinated. Deus Ex in 39:25 Full of hot dance parties, impossible jumps, and advanced AI manipulation, the Deus Ex run may be the most entertaining run of SGDQ. Heinki is incredibly entertaining to watch, cracking jokes as often as he pulls off ridiculous technical tricks. Dishonored in 35:44 With intelligent mana pathing this runner is able to keep his magic meter up while darting through the map in a series of lightning fast, acrobatic blinks. The run is so fast that they ve come to a point where unskippable dialogu…
- 20 years later, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight are still great Star Wars games - 18 February 2016
More Star Wars! We love Star Wars. We write about Star Wars a lot. For a tour of every Star Wars game on PC, check out our complete history . And for our favorites, check out the best Star Wars games of all time . In the last months of 2015, Star Wars was everywhere. Everywhere . TV ads. Billboards. Sneakers. Mac n cheese. Cars. PCs . It s hard to remember a time when Star Wars wasn t all around us. Even before the Force Awakens marketing blitz, Star Wars has been omnipresent for a decade now, with a steady stream of cartoons and toys and games and books and comics, some good, many bad. This is what we ve come to expect from the Lucasfilm and Disney empires. We don t expect Star Wars spin-offs to be bold and daring, and it wasn t until I spent the holiday break playing Dark Forces that I remembered Star Wars games were once genuinely groundbreaking. After watching Force Awakens, my Star…
- The 10 Best Star Wars PC Games - 22 December 2015
There’s no shortage of ‘best Star Wars games’ features across this nerdly old internet of ours, but the majority focus on console games which don’t often stray from the action/shooting category. On PC, we’ve had so much more variety over the years: sometimes for better, sometimes for very much worse. With the warm reception to the The Force Awakens meaning we no longer need to hate ourselves for retaining an innocent love of Long Time Ago, let’s mix nostalgia and contemporary game design values into a big, colourful ball and determine which PC titles are the least unwise ways to indulge that love. …
- Have You Played Star Wars: Dark Forces? - 2 September 2015
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Dark Forces was the first of the Star Wars FPS shooters and one I always felt was unfairly eclipsed by the (admittedly superior) Jedi Knight. Dark Forces bucked a lot of the trends that came before and a lot that would follow: it’s huge, sprawling levels seemed more life-like and realistic than what we’d seen in run-and-gun games like Doom and its imitators. …
- The 50 Best FPS Ever Made - 13 May 2015
Gathering together the best shooters is no easy task, but if you’re looking for a new PC FPS to play, look no further. Your favourite game is at number 51. …
- Why Star Wars Makes For Better Games Than Films - 4 May 2015
Star Wars started as cinema and ended up as something else – lots of things, from pillow cases to theme park rides. But chief among them, the form that best captures the core of Star Wars now, is games. The last Star Wars I enjoyed watching was released two years after I was born, in 1983, but since then games have given me dozens of dogfights, blaster battles and lightspeed adventures layered with the nostalgia, hope and acceleration that is essentially Star Wars. …
