Disney abandons Star Wars 1313 trademark
The trademark for Star Wars 1313 has officially expired, perhaps spelling an end to the final LucasArts-helmed Star Wars game, once and for all.
READ MORE >Report: Day of the Tentacle remake was '80% done' before canceled by LucasArts
Classic adventure game Day of the Tentacle was being remade a la the Monkey Island special editions.
READ MORE >"That's nuts. Definitely need to get this and 1313 restarted and released."
see all 55 commentsStar Wars 1313 motion-capture tech to live on in movies
Lucasfilm chief technology strategy officer Kim Libreri says that the video game technology developed for Star Wars 1313 can be used for movie production, taking much of the processing work out of motion capture effects.
READ MORE >"This looks a lot like the system used for the recent Tintin movie. They used tons of tracked ..."
see all 6 commentsLucasArts made adventure games, because it couldn't make Star Wars
Ron Gilbert says that the early days of Lucasfilms' games division made adventure titles largely because it couldn't make Star Wars games.
READ MORE >"D'oh. I was think of Tim Schafer when I wrote that. <smack>"
see all 8 commentsMore Star Wars: Battlefront 3 gameplay footage emerges
Footage from Free Radical's cancelled game Star Wars: Battlefront 3 continues to show up, this time in more pre-alpha gameplay livestreamed on Twitch over the weekend in a "May the Fourth be with you" celebration.
READ MORE >"i'm surprised they even started work on a battlefront 3. didn't 2 have lackluster sales?"
see all 5 commentsReport: LucasArts planned Star Wars social, iOS games
A look back at the internal goings-on of LucasArts in its last few months reveals unannounced game projects and just how the shutdown slowly came.
READ MORE >"A year ago, Kinect Star Wars was released. In that week's Bombcast, Patrick Klepek asked a ..."
see all 2 commentsRumor: Star Wars 1313 starred Boba Fett
Before it was canceled, Star Wars 1313 was reportedly to star Boba Fett. Sources say the hero of the game was altered to be Fett just before the last E3, at the request of George Lucas.
READ MORE >"I always wanted a Stat Wars game where you played a bounty hunter but there was no linear story ..."
see all 33 commentsTim Schafer, Ron Gilbert bid farewell to LucasArts
Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert share their thoughts and memories of LucasArts as the studio shuts its doors.
READ MORE >"Out of that period Monkey Island and LeChuck's Revenge also got voice work... and optional ..."
see all 20 commentsJedi Outcast and Jedi Academy source code released in tribute to LucasArts
While Star Wars games have become increasingly shoddy over the years, they were once consistently pleasing. In memory of the late, great LucasArts, shut down by Disney, Raven has released the source code of two such games from the Jedi Knight series, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Ac...
READ MORE >"There were at least a few replacement Storm Trooper models for JK2/JKA as people were cranky ..."
see all 35 commentsDisney closes LucasArts, cancels current projects
Disney has shut down publisher LucasArts and canceled current projects, moving into a licensed model for future Star Wars game development.
READ MORE >"Too many suits were @ Lucasarts calling the shots. Fun games got lost in the process. "
see all 72 commentsStar Wars: First Assault is a downloadable precursor to Battlefront 3
Star Wars: First Assault would have been a downloadable precursor to Battlefront 3--before it disappeared.
READ MORE >"Wrong, it was great. They just never bothered to release more maps for it because they are stupid."
see all 12 commentsRumor: Star Wars 1313 on hold
Star Wars 1313 has reportedly been put on hold to focus LucasArts' attention on Episode VII.
READ MORE >"This was going to be Lucasrts best SW game since Yoda Stories and Bombad Racing. Too bad. "
see all 38 commentsGrim Fandango playable on modern PCs thanks to ResidualVM
December 21 brought a lot of good news, including the fact that the world somehow didn't end after all, but the real revelation to celebrate was that the classic Grim Fandango is now playable on modern PCs. The first stable release of ResidualVM hit on that fateful day, doin...
READ MORE >"DId they fix the controls? Holy crap that game is hard to play"
see all 16 commentsLucasArts acquired by Disney
The Walt Disney Company has acquired Lucasfilm and its subsidiaries, including its LucasArts video gaming division.
READ MORE >"I actually enjoyed John Carter. It was flawed but had some cool stuff going on. That movie had ..."
see all 118 commentsReport: Star Wars: First Assault coming to Xbox Live Arcade
A purported leaked box art from Xbox seems to indicate that Star Wars: First Assault, which was trademarked a month ago, will be on Xbox Live Arcade.
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"It's insane how much valuable IP Disney has now. Oh what I would do if I was a top executive ..."
- Kolzig73 see all 18 comments