“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.” These words from Obi-Wan Kenobi could not be a more apt description for what many Star Wars gamers are undoubtedly thinking right now. After closing down LucasArts last...

Despite the fact that publisher/developer LucasArts wasn’t exactly putting out the greatest quality of work recently (cough Star Wars Kinect cough) it’s still a loss mourned by gamers everywhere. After all, they brought us lots of different games, from TIE Fighter, Escape from Monkey Island, and...

One of the great video game developers has fallen. Yesterday Disney made the announcement that they were shutting down LucasArts, effective immediately. Disney had acquired the studio last year when they bought LucasFilm from George Lucas back in October. One hundred and fifty people have lost their jobs...

It was announced yesterday that Disney has agreed to purchase Lucasfilm for $4 billion in a stock-and-cash deal. The assets that Disney will be getting from this acquisition include Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound studios, but most importantly the Star Wars franchise, both...

We’ve known for a while that Bioware was entertaining the idea of bringing Star Wars: The Old Republic into the realm of free-to-play. And with recent layoffs and the loss of its Executive Producer, the outlook of the game hasn’t exactly been looking bright. Yesterday, Bioware officially...

As far as the gaming division of LucasArts goes, it’s not been such a great ride lately. It’s been nearly two years since we’ve seen the last Star Wars game (not including SWTOR because BioWare took up that mantle), and when the last LucasArts endeavor launched it disappointed many fans. The Force...

Over the last two decades, if there’s been a Star Wars game you could bet easy money that it would involve Jedi and lightsaber combat in some form. In fact, the only games I can think of that didn’t involve you swinging a lightsaber around would be the space combat flight sims, and even Rogue...

One of the new games being shown at E3 is a new Star Wars title from LucasArts, called Star Wars 1313. The game is centered around an aspiring bounty hunter as he delves deep into the seedy undercity of Courscant to uncover a criminal conspiracy. Unlike many Star Wars games that focus on lightsaber combat...