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you better work on your lightsaber skills before the force awakens I'm Richard Carey this is your scene that update the force is awakening and the hype train is on hyperdrive early reviews for the new Star Wars movie are now all over the web but you may not want to read anything to avoid spoilers and go in for a pure experience instead of browsing the web like this you can distract yourself in a few ways google has a new game to test your lightsaber wielding skills it's called lightsaber escape you log into the game from a laptop or desktop on a Chrome browser and it gives you instructions on how to sync up your phone as a controller for the game your phone becomes a lightsaber that you swing to deflect blaster fire from storm troopers but dodging all those pew pew race which is the scientific term is not easy also you may have some trouble playing this on a work internet connection because a workplace may have extra security settings that can muck up the syncing between your phone and the computer you can also spend time creating animated gifs with star wars flair on the new giphy cam app or maybe you'll call it the jiffy kamath it's been updated with six star wars filters and it's only for a limited time to promote the movie you record a little looping video clip and then you can make the Millennium Falcon flyby or bb-8 can just roll into your shot among other effects I'm sure Hollywood has a good feeling about ticket sales for this movie after the online rush to buy advance tickets The Hollywood Reporter has sources saying that advanced ticket sales reached a hundred million dollars in North America it's an unheard-of number which means it's going to be very hard to avoid accidental online spoilers if you're not among the first to see it there is a tool that can help if you're really worried force block is a Star Wars spoiler blocker that you can download for the Chrome browser before you load up a website it's checking if there are a critical mass of keywords related to Star Wars so if there are too many terms or certain really serious spoilers you're going to see a variety of warnings popping up stopping you from visiting someone on the team saw an early screening and the engineers program super spoiler keywords into the blocker so this team means business that's it for this tech news update and there's always more to explore at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey