Zen Studios announces Star Wars Pinball

Zen Studios has inked a deal with Lucasarts to create 10 Star Wars pinball tables, the first three of which will be released later this month. They’ll be offered exclusively as DLC for Zen Pinball 2/Pinball FX2 on most platforms, but iOS and Android users will have the option of either purchasing them as DLC in Zen Pinball or buying a standalone app called Star Wars Pinball.

The first three tables will be based off of The Empire Strikes Back, The Clone Wars, and good ol’ Boba Fett. You can get a glimpse of the table for The Empire Strikes Back in the trailer below, and IGN has the scoop on the other two tables, which you can get a good look at here.

No details have been revealed about the remaining seven tables, including what they’ll be modeled after or when they’ll be released. But good things come to those who wait, and from the sounds of it Zen Studios is paying close attention to what it is the fans would like to see from them in the future. So make sure you email them and let them know how badly you’d like to see a Star Wars Holiday Special table, as well as one modeled after the table Data East released back in the early ’90s.

That’s what we all want, right? That’s the end game here?

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