Topic: Disney Shuts Down LucasArts Internal Development

[Steel Diver]

The mouse house wants it to license games instead. 

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/33738

LucasArts will no  longer be internally developing games after changes made by its owner, The Walt Disney Company.

A statement released by Disney reveals LucasArts will not be developing games, and instead will be licensing them in order to work on "minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games." This shift is also the cause of layoffs happening today at LucasArts.

Since Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm many changes have been made, along with this move, the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars had also been cancelled earlier in the year.

[Hero_of_time113]

In the wise words of Hayden Christensen...


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo!

[Bman87301]

In the wise words of Hayden Christensen...


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo!

Don't you mean James Earl Jones?

[Hero_of_time113]

In the wise words of Hayden Christensen...


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo!

Don't you mean James Earl Jones?

Well technically.... yes. Hold on, I can fix this.


In the ridiculous Frankenstein-like body movements of Hayde- oh forget it. haha


Anyway, this is unfortunate news.

[NWR_insanolord]

So I suppose I can finally give up my dreams of a Rebel Assault 3.

[ShyGuy]

1313 canceled, NEXT GEN CANCELED

[oohhboy]

Whelp! There goes that chunk of gaming history.

I would ask you to turn in your Geek card Hero of time, but the prequels don't exists, so carry on.

[Neifirst]

You never like to hear of people losing their jobs, but now outside studios will have a chance to bid on licenses to make Star Wars games, and we should (theoretically) start seeing strong titles.  The Force Unleashed titles were okay, but imagine what it could of been in the hands of Crystal Dynamics or Naughty Dog instead.  What about a Criterion-developed Pod Racer?  I'm excited to see what they can do in the run up to the new trilogy.

[Ailingforale]

I was kind of thinking the same thing Neifirst, but it still sucks to see all those jobs go.  Good luck to them!

[Adrock]

1313 was going to be a Boba Fett game according to Kotaku.

If Nintendo wants to strengthen their Western development presence, there's a whole bunch of people who are looking for jobs. Retro Studios San Fransisco? Jay Kay lawl.