News Tagged: lucasarts

Altogether now: "bollocks!" Electronic Arts announced today that it has secured the rights to develop Star Wars games "spanning all interactive platforms and the most popular game genres." "Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe," said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau...

Thanks to Disney, we can now wave good-bye to LucasArts. LucasArts is not just another publisher. That name has been around for as long as I can recollect being a dumbass gamer. All those memorable adventures games such as Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, The Dig, Loom, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Grim Fandango, hmm, then the Jedi Knight series...

The industry has suffered a tragic loss today. According to Kotaku, around 150 employees have been laid off from LucasArts, and Disney has decided to shut down the operation. The public statement was as follows: After evaluating our position in the games market...

It's been a damn long time since we heard anything about LucasArts' Star Wars: 1313. Kotaku has dug up info that the project may be on hold, citing three unrelated sources familiar with game development at LucasArts. The sources claim the work on Star Wars stopped sometime when Disney bought of LucasArts last year...

Hold your horses it doesn't have to mean a thing just yet. All that's known at this time is that LucasArts announced via trademark website Fusible that the company registered several web domain names, amongst which is 'Star Wars: First Assault...

It seems that LucasArts president Paul Meegan has stepped down from his position and the company, as reported by GI. Apparently, "two members of LucasArts' leadership team have stepped up to co-lead the studio," until the replacement is found, with Kevin Parker taking over business operations and Gio Corsi handling studio production...

Care to work for LucasArts on a new FPS? Oh why not, I'm sure they'll hire you straight away. At any rate, the company has posted job ads for a new unknown "FPS title" that's most likely on its way to PC and consoles. It seems that they are looking for a senior core engineer and a senior animator to work on this unnamed FPS project...

LucasArts finally stepped up and unveiled their latest project - a brand new Star Wars game, interestingly dubbed "Star Wars: 1313." They described this one as a 3rd-person cinematic action adventure game that takes place on Coruscant. The game strives to show the underworld of Coruscant...

Yes, well, you know, your saga begins and all that. Check out this documentary video, featuring folks from LucasArts and BioWare: VIDEO: TOR_your_saga_begins.flv Star Wars: The Old Republic is now available for purchase, so you can go ahead and try exploring its delights (if you manage to log in to a game server, that is).

According to a story posted on GameInformer's web site, "LucasArts creative director Clint Hocking, whom you may remember from such Ubisoft titles as Splinter Cell and Far Cry 2, recently tweeted that the company is hiring a gameplay engineer for an 'open-world RPG...

There were reports a while back that that around 30% of LucasArts' internal development staff was cut. Now, a report has surfaced that the company made a "minor adjustment in staffing..." Yyyeah, that's a nice, really, really nice way of saying it...

The ever-expanding Star Wars universe has brought yet another adventure our way, with familiar heroes such as Vader, Yoda and Starkiller on the scene. This game continues the story of the powerful young Jedi, who once again sets out to battle Darth Vader and the armies of the evil Empire...

As we reported, LucasArts is now available for download via Xbox Live Marketplace. Check out the details below: Content: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Demo Price: Free Availability: All Xbox LIVE Regions Dash Text: Experience the explosive action and engrossing story in the brand-new demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II...

LucasArts is going to release a playable demo from their upcoming action adventure Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Word is: "The demo level focuses on the very beginning of the game, which takes in a secret cloning facility on the planet of Kamino...

The developers of of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 talk more about the combat elements in the upcoming action adventure. They describe some of the beefed up force techniques that are going to be available for the players. Check it out: VIDEO: TFU2webdoccombatunl.flv