Cal Kestis

Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi games are firmly embedded in the years before the original trilogy, and keep the focus on a core cast of wholly new heroes and villains. It’s what made Star Wars Jedi: Survivor from earlier this year so excellent: the games take advantage of that relative freedom from the timeline and offer up an interesting array of original characters for audiences to love.Star Wars Brotherhood Excerpt: Dexter Jettster ReturnsOne of the newest additions for the sequel was Bode Akuna, a mercenary who shows up…

This year has been jam-packed with new Star Wars, with three new seasons of TV in Bad Batch, The Mandalorian, and Ahsoka, and oodles of books and comics that saw us revisit legends or the High Republic. Even as we await its return to the big screen, Star Wars remains ever-present—but one new story in particular fulfilled the promise of connecting points across this vast galaxy this year more than anything else: Jedi Survivor.‘I Started a Yoda Fan Club’As a standalone piece of Star Wars, Jedi Survivor proudly stands on its…

Ten thousand Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice across the Star Wars galaxy before the rise of the Empire laid them low. But as devastating as Palpatine’s issuing of Order 66 was to the Jedi, in recent years we’ve seen more and more tales of Jedi that survived its wrath. Is that a problem? As always with Star Wars, not really... from a certain point of view.The Rings of Power | First FandomsThe number of Jedi who survived Order 66 has been in the spotlight this week, after Empire Magazine’s coverage of…

Sometimes it’s not fair to tell people they’re playing a video game wrong—in fact, it’s more often than not unfair to tell people they’re playing a video game wrong. But Star Wars fans, I beg of you, as you gallivant through the galaxy in Jedi Survivor, use something other than the single lightsaber.Spoilers of the Week Feb.11thThis distressing (distressing!) information came to light yesterday, when EA Games’ Star Wars social accounts posted a bevy of interesting statistics about players’ adventures in the world of the…

Image: LucasfilmOrder 66 is one of Star Wars’ most defining moments—even before we knew its name and the intricacies of its machinations, we have known since the very beginning of the saga that there were once thousands of Jedi Knights, only for them to be systemically eradicated by the Empire. But even as Star Wars has detailed this moment more and more, it’s also revealed more and more Jedi that slipped through the Empire’s grip.The more contemporary Star Wars media interacts with the time of the prequels, and even…

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor — out now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S/X — has the immense task of following what many consider to be one of the greatest Star Wars games in recent memory. 2019's Jedi: Fallen Order restored hope to the galaxy-spanning franchise with a daring story and robust souls-like combat system, rebelling against EA's belief that single-player games were dead. It was a strong blend of FromSoftware's risk-reward mechanics and the power fantasy of being a lightsaber-wielding Jedi, albeit with limitations in…

Respawn Entertainment’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor finally launched on April 28, continuing the story of Jedi Knight Cal Kestis during the Reign of the Empire era. Its predecessor, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, ended with Kal, his mentor Cere, Nightsister Merrin, and Mantis pilot Greez destroying a Holocron with the locations of force-sensitive children on it. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor follows Cal five years after the events of that game as he struggles to balance his well-being with his fight against the Empire and…

If you can’t wait to continue your adventures with Cal Kestis later this month, we have some advice that might tide you over. The new Star Wars Jedi: Survivor game launches on April 28. If you pre-order the PC version through CDKeys, you get two awesome benefits. The first is that the game is $21 off, making it $49 instead of $70. The second is that, as a pre-order bonus, you’ll get 15% off any other Star Wars game on the site. Battlefront, Lego Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic, you name it! Why you should…

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is still over a month away from launch, but that hasn't stopped developers Respawn Entertainment from considering a trilogy. Speaking to IGN, director Stig Asmussen revealed that he would like to see Jedi Knight Cal Kestis' (Cameron Monaghan) arc stretched to a third and final title. While its possibility depends on how well this upcoming game performs, he claims that sequel discussions were happening before even 2019's Jedi: Fallen Order was out. If a threequel is greenlit, Asmussen stated that…

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has been delayed by six weeks. In a tweet, developer Respawn Entertainment confirmed that the highly-anticipated galaxy-spawning adventure, originally set to drop on March 17, will now release on April 28. The studio affirmed that development on the game's core content was indeed “complete,” and that the additional time would be used for further optimisation to provide a bug-free experience. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor brings back Cameron Monaghan in the lead role of Cal Kestis, now a powerful Jedi…