If there’s one thing that the Star Wars: Battlefront needs to do well, it’s scale. The Star Wars movies are no small stories: these are tales upon which the fate of an entire galaxy hinges, where spaceships are the size of moons and where wizards wield an unknowable and all-powerful magic. The Battlefront series is good at that, with massive battles, even bigger vehicles, and a player cap that can hopefully come close to recreating that sense of the epic that comes across in the original trilogy’s best moments. EA and Dice just showed off “Fighter Squadron” at Gamescom, and it looks to recreate those massive space battles that defined A New Hope and Return of the Jedi, even if the Battlefront will be confined to the air battles with all the gravity that defines our day-to-day life. And yes, you can fly the Millenium Falcon.

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From sword fights to space battles, there is one studio that knows exactly Star Wars should look like.

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The ‘Mafia 3’ trailer brings us to Vietnam-era New Orleans.

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Why isn’t a product designed to protect against a cancer that kills 10,000 Americans each year subjected to the same testing as a prescription drug?

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Much has been made, especially by the Return on Investment crowd, of the value of undergraduate study in the so-called STEM fields: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Lost in the conversation is the way the true liberal arts underpin such study, often because the liberal arts are inaccurately equated solely with the humanities. From the start, the liberal arts included math and science, something I learned firsthand at St. John’s College.

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There’s a key link between hormone levels and unethical behavior, according to new research out of Harvard and UT Austin.

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Last week saw Uber’s market valuation break $50B, a milestone reached two years faster than Facebook did it in 2011.  Is it a tech phenomenon?  Is it a social revolution?  Is it a supply chain breakthrough?  Yes to all of those.  Yet for some reason too many in operations roles don’t see it that way.

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We just got out first look at Mafia 3, and the series looks to be shaking things up. We’re not in the comfortable world of fedoras and pinstripes any more: we’re in 1968 New Orleans, a tumultuous moment that informs Mafia 3’s nastier take on organized crime with societal change and rampant racism. The trailer shows us our new protagonist: a half-black, half-white Vietnam war veteran with a not-terrible Louisiana drawl. He’s driving through the swamp on the outskirts of the city to take care of some business for his family.

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Yes, Lexus’ overboard indeed flies – but there’s a catch.

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Zendesk (ZEN), which operates a cloud platform for custome service, continues to show that it knows how to crank out growth. In the latest quarter, revenues shot up by 63% to $48.2 million. And yes, Wall Street is fairly pleased, with ZEN stock up about 12%.

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