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Star Wars: Commander hits 5M mobile downloads in 3 weeks

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Disney Interactive should be happy with its latest Star Wars mobile title. Star Wars: Commander has been downloaded more than 5 million times since its release on Aug. 21.

Star Wars: Commander is a free-to-play strategy game on iOS where the Rebels have to scrounge for resources to take on Darth Vader and his Stormtroopers. Disney, which acquired the Star Wars brand with its $4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012, said that most players have chosen to play with the Rebel Forces in the Galactic Civil War. But the Imperial Forces are gaining ground quickly.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.