It wasn’t just casual movie fans in attendance for the opening night of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but also plenty of important gaming industry leaders were celebrating as well.
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens predicted to earn around $250-275 this weekend, it’s no surprise everyone is hitting the theaters. Let’s take a look at what some of these famous industry leaders are doing for the movie.
DICE, the developers of the most recent Star Wars Battlefront, had their entire staff ready to watch the movie at a theater:
Entire DICE is getting ready to watch Star Wars The Force Awakens together. pic.twitter.com/F4ngX78A9l
— DICE (@EA_DICE) December 17, 2015
With their newest Warcraft movie having a trailer before the film starts, Blizzard also shared in on some of the fun:
After seeing the @WarcraftMovie trailer on the big screen with #StarWars, which side will you choose? pic.twitter.com/hOtbbnK27G
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) December 18, 2015
Even Starcraft shared in the Star Wars fun, with an epic Psionic blade duel between some Protoss heroes:
There will always be two sides. Will you choose the light side, or the dark side? #LotV #StarWars pic.twitter.com/C3P16D33Vx
— StarCraft (@StarCraft) December 18, 2015
The official Playstation Twitter account had some cheeky fun:
We thought about posting some Star Wars tweets today, but we didn't want to Force it. 😏
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) December 18, 2015
Not to be outdone, Xbox suggests you pause Star Wars Battlefront and check out the movie:
Big day for the pause button. Big, big day. #TheForceAwakens pic.twitter.com/sgNoJV03zV
— Xbox (@Xbox) December 18, 2015
Speaking of Microsoft, looks like they got an awesome welcome. Larry Hyrb (aka Major Nelson) of Xbox has the perfect seat:
This is Red 5, I'm Going In. pic.twitter.com/2gXEVSfIY7
— Larry Hryb, Gamer Emeritus 📱⌨️🖱️🎮 (@majornelson) December 18, 2015
Nintendo UK shared this awesome Zelda fan-art paying tribute to the original Star Wars:
May the Tri-Force be with you!
(Fan art by https://t.co/grrrpweRva) pic.twitter.com/YhhEaefNCL
— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) December 17, 2015
Even busy man Hideo Kojima seemed to be counting down the days until Force Awakens:
SW Day. pic.twitter.com/4G6XWvDJUe
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) December 17, 2015
Disney Infinity’s newest Force Awakens play set arrives in stores this week as well:
The #StarWars: #TheForceAwakens play set for @DisneyInfinity 3.0 is now available!
More at: https://t.co/47IZIpmW6a pic.twitter.com/y7PbvrAHuS— Star Wars (@starwars) December 18, 2015
2k Games had some fun with these Borderlands cosplayers:
#TheForceAwakens with these Vault Hunters. #Borderlands pic.twitter.com/LkKUFhWOMP
— 2K (@2K) December 18, 2015
Looks like DeeJ from Bungie is taking the right approach to watching the new Star Wars:
Star Wars seat acquired. This played before the show: https://t.co/EPxptvobBR pic.twitter.com/KxrSG9RmK1
— David James Dague (@DJDague) December 18, 2015
Adam Sessler, the president of TheoryHead, Inc and also a former producer and editor at Rev3Games and X-Play, seems to have loved the movie:
https://twitter.com/AdamSessler/status/677736535605690369
Did you have a great time seeing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed? Did any of your premiers rival these guys? What did you think about the movie? Let us know in the comments below, and as always: May the Force be with you.
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