STACK #181 Nov 2019

Founder Nic Short Editor-in-Chief Paul Jones Film & TV Editor Scott Hocking Contributors

Issue 181 NOV 2019

Music Editor Zoë Radas Online Editor Amy Flower

Creative Director Gary Siewert DVD Consultant Kerrie Taylor Games Consultant Sachi Fernando Music Consultant Mike Glynn Marketing Manager Fleur Parker

WELCOME

STACK is a family magazine and as such I can’t repeat what one of our chief games writers said about Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order via email, as he was about to fly back to Australia from the US press event. Needless to say it was positive and alongside an excited expletive came the words, “Easily the best Star Wars game since Star Wars: Force Unleashed ”. This has been the undercurrent of opinion for some time now. At E3 this year, spots for hands-on sessions were extremely limited and subsequently hotly contested. Again, the feedback was very good. It certainly isn’t a given that a reputable developer will always deliver a quality product, especially when working within the legal and lore restrictions connected with the Star Wars license (we’d hate to be part of that approval process), but when you have a studio like Respawn (Titanfall, Apex Legends) behind the wheel, the odds are more favourable than successfully navigating an asteroid field. With the final film in the sequel trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker, due to hit cinemas on December 19, could there be a better time to drop a new Star Wars game? On the film front this month, Disney’s stunning CGI update of The Lion King is easily the studio’s best ‘live-action’ remake since The Jungle Book , featuring photo-realistic wildlife that could easily have escaped from a David Attenborough documentary. It’s just the first in a wave of blockbusters that will be filling JB shelves throughout the Christmas quarter. Paul Jones, Editor-in-Chief

Chief Contributors Bob Jones , Gill Pringle Contributors Glenn Cochrane, Jeff Jenkins, Simon Lukic, Billy Pinnell, Denise Hylands, Bryget Chrisfield, Simon Winkler, Nathan Lawrence, Jake Cleland, Holly Pereira, Adam Colby, Dan Nicholson, Alex Deutrom, Bec Summer, Anthony Horan Social Media Manager Sally Carlier-Hull Production Manager Craig Patterson Correspondence STACK 33 Jessie Street, Richmond, VIC 3121

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