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Author:  RaptorGT [ Wed April 3rd, 2013 8:48 pm ]
Post subject:  News: Disney to shut LucasArts games studio
http://www.examiner.com/article/disney-closes-lucasarts-cancels-star-wars-1313-video

Tech site Kotaku reported today that Disney has closed down Lucasarts and laid off all of its employees. Lucasarts is the gaming division of Lucasfilm. Two video games that were near release, “Star Wars 1313” and “Star Wars: First Assault”, have been cancelled altogether as a result. George Lucas sold Lucasfilm and all of its related businesses to Disney for over $4 billion last fall.

Lucasarts had signaled this outcome back in September when the company froze hiring and stopped promoting upcoming releases. The company once was a leader in innovative games, but in recent times has not had much success with in-house projects.

Disney plans to continue using the Lucasarts name in the licensing of “Star Wars”-related games.

"Star Wars 1313" has been heavily promoted for a couple years now by Lucasarts. The game was expected to be a big hit and feature a brand new main character. The story would have taken the player through the dark criminal underground of Coruscant.

Kotaku noted that both “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic” and “Star Wars: Battlefront” were licensed games developed by outside studios. These were critically acclaimed at the time of their release and went on to be best-sellers. Lucasarts in the same time span released “Kinect Star Wars,” which was heavily promoted and hated by critics.
Author:  Toval [ Wed April 3rd, 2013 9:11 pm ]
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april fools much?
Author:  KickKat [ Wed April 3rd, 2013 10:04 pm ]
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Doesn't sound like it. LucasArts has a history of turning out a brilliant game and then following it up with complete garbage. It has always been hit or miss with them. This sounds like typical corporate restructuring that almost always happens after an acquisition.

Even the biggest names fall if they don't keep up. Re: Sierra.
Author:  Shadowbreed [ Wed April 3rd, 2013 10:36 pm ]
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It was posted today, so doubt it's april fools :(
Hate Disney
Author:  KickKat [ Wed April 3rd, 2013 10:48 pm ]
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Shadowbreed wrote:
Hate Disney


Just keep telling yourself the future will be better without Lucas' fat fingers in everything.

There were so many creative people involved in making star wars what it is that we will probably find out that Lucas' biggest contribution (that wasn't dumb) was fetching coffee and securing merchandising rights. ;)
Author:  Shadowbreed [ Wed April 3rd, 2013 10:58 pm ]
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This isn't about starwars...
Lucasarts did the computer games.
Xwing vs tie fighter, monkey island, etc etc.
Author:  RaptorGT [ Wed April 3rd, 2013 11:18 pm ]
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Shadowbreed wrote:
Xwing vs tie fighter, monkey island, etc etc.


Those were some of the BEST!
Author:  KickKat [ Wed April 3rd, 2013 11:38 pm ]
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I am aware, but you can't argue that Star Wars was not at the heart of it.
Author:  Mal Caine [ Thu April 4th, 2013 4:28 am ]
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As long as they don't hand off 1313 and First Assault to EA for development, it shouldn't be too bad of a move.
Author:  Hohndo [ Thu April 4th, 2013 4:34 pm ]
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Star Wars 1313 and Star Wars: First Assault have halted in production. They may still release through licensing externally but there was a source that said the chances of that happening is "effectively zero".
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