Lucasfilm confirms all future Star Wars content to be canon, including the games

Canon, canon, canon, canonical, canon, canon!?!?

Almost everyday lately, I am hearing this word being used. e.g. "This is considered canon now."

Can someone please tell me what the hell it means? It sounds dumb as hell, but it makes me feel even dumbererer, because I seem to be the only one asking what the hell does it mean!? ;)

At least before I could just look past it, but after reading this monstrosity of an article, I've no choice but to finally ask.

Is this article trying to be stupid here, are they playing some in-office game, to try and see how many times they can fit this word CANON into one story?

You do know M. Night Shamalamadingdong did that with The Happening movie too? Yeah it wasn't clever when he did it either.

Now they just need to "demote" the prequels to non-canonical status and we can put another "serious" first world problem to bed...j/k

If they just put Timothy Zahn in charge of everything, this wouldn't worry me as much. That won't happen, though. Soon, the cannon Star Wars universe will be far, far lamer than the expanded universe made by creative individuals over the last 35 years.

Star Wars cannons confirmed.

So does this mean The Force Unleashed games are non canon? Because I've been waiting for a 3rd one for a long time now!

Kyle Katarn must be canon!!!

Please just redo and make KotoR canon, Bioware and EA. And by redo, I mean just give it some updated graphics and combat. Don't even dare touch that story.

I had to google the context definition of "canon". Seriously, who ever uses that word like this? Why not just say "faithful", "conventional", "traditional"? I guess we are playing Scrabble and that's all they had in their hand.

Grand Admiral Thrawn, the Nogrhi, Talon Karde, and Mara Jade, or GTFO.

Well at least Darth Bane made it into canon... at least there's that. Thanks Filoni!

New Jedi Knight please. And make it so multiplayer represents the core aspects of what JK2 and JKA represented, being social and skillfull with a saber. To stab your best friend in a duel and for him to say "gf" is a great feeling that I do indeed miss.

I'm really hoping that they DON'T make a Force Unleashed 3 then. Force Unleashed 2's story was just so bad and shouldn't even be considered Star Wars.

Force Unleashed 1 was excellent though.

Well ok then.

So in the next Marvel movie Stan Lee will have a lightsaber and Disney will brand it as canon?

"TOR has always been a part of the EU, and that's not going to change." Wait so does that mean it is or isn't canon? And at the very least I believe KOTOR 1 and 2 should be canon...or maybe just 1 lol. And what about The Force Unleashed 1? I mean yeah force powers aren't like that, but that can just be chalked up to it being a video game. The story of how the rebel alliance was formed was pretty good, at least in my opinion.

As a big Star Wars fan, I like this idea. Previously some comic book, novel and video game stories contradict with each other and some others just goes aimlessly and ends. It's good to see they take all the stories of all the media very seriously to create one single canon instead just making something and sell it.

But it's not like they can remove all the fun we had when we read or play the past EU. It can be enjoyed back then, it can be enjoyed now.

they shld make a trilogy about bane.. the 3 bane books in the EU are awesome

Anything after the first 3 I consider fan fiction.

Lucas had the right idea splitting up the canons. Frankly, Star Wars is such a vast setting that the idea of one single canon is almost ludicrous. And if Disney produces/licenses the same amount of content we've seen in the past, maintaining consistency will be basically impossible. Without consistency, a single canon is pointless.

Is it me, or does this announcement leave the canonical status of previous works UNCHANGED? Hence, I don't understand why there's lots of EU fans WHINING?

Apart from the usual reason kids are always whining on here.

Half Life 3 confirmed.

Wow, people sure take their Star Wars seriously.

Star Wars canon is such a mess, it makes Warcraft lore look consistent