According to an article at NZGamer.com, through a press meet with LucasArts it has been revealed what the secret apprentice’s name will actually be. Haden Blackman once gave us the hint that the name began with the letter ‘S’, well this report follows this lead-on and says the apprentice’s name is Starkiller. This name is familiar because it was originally to be the name of Luke before Lucas changed it to Skywalker. You can read the article for yourself here. Thanks to Ztalker for the heads up.

Finally we have a confirmed reason for why The Force Unleashed will not be released for PC. The producer of Force Unleashed, Cameron Suey, in an interview with Videogamer.com, stated that it would be too hard to develop a game which could satisfy both killer gaming rigs and outdated ones.

“The PC being the gaming platform that it is, someone with a $4,000 high-end system would definitely be able to play the Euphoria, the DMM and really technical elements of the game. But someone with a low-end PC would have a watered down experience, they would have to turn all the settings down and it wouldn’t be the same game,” Suey said.

One might ask why not give the PC version a more scaled down version of the game so that it would reach a wider install base, well Suey says that would not be taking advantage of what the $4,000 rigs can do, so “it’s going to be not as good or only for a select few people.”

However don’t get too down as Suey did have some good things to say about the PC in LucasArt’s future. “That said we’re definitely not out of the PC market. It’s just with our choice for this game, with the known quantity for the consoles, and every console is the same with the same processing power, it made sense for us to develop for those consoles.”

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Check out this video from G4 demoing the power of the Force with the Wii’s exclusive duel mode. The Wii version is shaping up to be the real deal.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed includes an original score which was composed by Mark Griskey, who has previously composed the music for Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. The folks at Music 4 Games have an exclusive look at the recording and composing of the music for the game and you can check it out here.

8 new screenshots from the Wii version of The Force Unleashed have been added to our screenshot gallery. Head on over to check them out!

Here’s a new video on the N-GAGE version of the Force Unleashed, for a mobile game its looking pretty good. Thanks to mojo for the link.

Last night The Force Unleashed was featured on Gametrailers TV where Geoff Keighley got an insider look at the game at the LucasArts studio in San Francisco. Check out the four-part video below or you can watch the video in HD on Gametrailers here.

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If any of you gamers are also webmasters, there might be a site you’re interested in. Webmaster Talk is an up-and-coming webmaster forum that has recently merged with Earners Forum to bring a host of new features to the site. To kick it off they are holding a huge contest with over $25,000 in prizes and 5 winners. Prizes include an iPod Touch, a Macbook Air, digital camera, Nintendo DS Lite, cash, and more. If you’re interested then you must register to win.

Make sure to tune in to SpikeTV tonight between the Star Wars movies (I’m guessing 8 PM EDT) for a big Star Wars gaming announcement. Tonight is the world television premier of Revenge of the Sith on SpikeTV and Attack of the Clones will rerun beforehand so make sure to tune in at 8 for a huge announcement. There is also supposed to be a big announcement on April 11 so make sure to keep your eyes open for that one too.

A new documentary has been put up where the developers talk about what makes each version of the game great.

We get to hear a lot of info about the Wii, PS2, PSP, and DS versions of the game. Check it out!