Star Wars: First Assault and Star Wars 1313--were cancelled
Lucasarts has been dead to me for years, and I still feel bad about this.
SELL THE ADVENTURE GAME IPS
In a generation where online multiplayer shooters reached the widest possible audience ever, and the console cycle lasted the longer ever. Yet they still couldn't put out a battlefront game says everything that could ever be said about their management.
Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.
Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.
That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.
Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.
That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.
Weren't they licensing Sam & Max and Monkey Island to TellTale Games? Was the Back To The Future game a Lucas property too?
That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.
With the layoffs, LucasArts is no longer working on “Star Wars 1313,” but still hopes to finish the game with another developer. “Star Wars: First Assault” has also been canceled.
I guess you could say....the force wasn't with them :derp
Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.
That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.
Weren't they licensing Sam & Max and Monkey Island to TellTale Games? Was the Back To The Future game a Lucas property too?
"Hopes to finish" is a long way from "still coming out", and I don't exactly think the chances of it ever being released are good.That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.
1313 is still coming out. The XBLA/PSN FPS First Assault is cancelled. Kotaku is run by distinguished mentally-challenged chimps:
http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/lucasarts-lays-off-staff-1200332457/QuoteWith the layoffs, LucasArts is no longer working on “Star Wars 1313,” but still hopes to finish the game with another developer. “Star Wars: First Assault” has also been canceled.
Publicly, Disney is saying their current games could be licensed out to a different publisher or developer, but according to our source, that's unlikely. Our source says Lucas has pursued the option for "one or both games," but nothing happened. "With the teams now basically being dispersed I think both games are effectively dead forever," our source said.
Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.
That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.
Weren't they licensing Sam & Max and Monkey Island to TellTale Games? Was the Back To The Future game a Lucas property too?
Steve Purcell owns Sam & Max, not LucasArts. He licensed the characters to Telltale after LucasArts' license expired."Hopes to finish" is a long way from "still coming out", and I don't exactly think the chances of it ever being released are good.That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.
1313 is still coming out. The XBLA/PSN FPS First Assault is cancelled. Kotaku is run by distinguished mentally-challenged chimps:
http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/lucasarts-lays-off-staff-1200332457/QuoteWith the layoffs, LucasArts is no longer working on “Star Wars 1313,” but still hopes to finish the game with another developer. “Star Wars: First Assault” has also been canceled.Quote from: distinguished mentally-challenged chimpsPublicly, Disney is saying their current games could be licensed out to a different publisher or developer, but according to our source, that's unlikely. Our source says Lucas has pursued the option for "one or both games," but nothing happened. "With the teams now basically being dispersed I think both games are effectively dead forever," our source said.
SELL THE ADVENTURE GAME IPS.
Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.
That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.
Weren't they licensing Sam & Max and Monkey Island to TellTale Games? Was the Back To The Future game a Lucas property too?
Steve Purcell owns Sam & Max, not LucasArts. He licensed the characters to Telltale after LucasArts' license expired."Hopes to finish" is a long way from "still coming out", and I don't exactly think the chances of it ever being released are good.That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.
1313 is still coming out. The XBLA/PSN FPS First Assault is cancelled. Kotaku is run by distinguished mentally-challenged chimps:
http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/lucasarts-lays-off-staff-1200332457/QuoteWith the layoffs, LucasArts is no longer working on “Star Wars 1313,” but still hopes to finish the game with another developer. “Star Wars: First Assault” has also been canceled.Quote from: distinguished mentally-challenged chimpsPublicly, Disney is saying their current games could be licensed out to a different publisher or developer, but according to our source, that's unlikely. Our source says Lucas has pursued the option for "one or both games," but nothing happened. "With the teams now basically being dispersed I think both games are effectively dead forever," our source said.
Lucasfilm is doing focus group surveys for 1313 this week about changing the lead character. They wouldn't be paying the company doing those if the game is cancelled.
I remember being excited about 1313 when I saw the trailer and they were going into this big tower and I was all like 'omg star wars looter shooter rougelike with high production values"! Then later on it became clear it was another take on the 'escape from AAA dangerous places' and I was all :-\ :-\ :-\ .
Sad to see Lucasarts go, even though Larry Holland's space combat sim games haven't dated all that well they did represent one of the formative pillars of my gaming tastes.
He's not listening, Sho Nuff. You're talking to nobody.
Two years?!
That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.
:damn
Thank you for getting me into FPS, you wonderful bastards
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BURBANK & REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) and Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced a new multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish globally new games based on Star Wars characters and storylines.
Under the agreement, EA will develop and publish new Star Wars titles for a core gaming audience, spanning all interactive platforms and the most popular game genres, while Disney will retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile, social, tablet and online game categories.
“This agreement demonstrates our commitment to creating quality game experiences that drive the popularity of the Star Wars franchise for years to come,” said John Pleasants, Co-President of Disney Interactive. “Collaborating with one of the world’s premier game developers will allow us to bring an amazing portfolio of new Star Wars titles to our fans around the world.”
“Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe,” said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. “Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans. DICE and Visceral will produce new games, joining the BioWare team which continues to develop for the Star Wars franchise. The new experiences we create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay.”
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Bet this results in a new Battlefront finally.
Fine with this. They'll do more with the license than LucasArts was. And DICE doing Battlefront would be kick-ass.
Fine with this. They'll do more with the license than LucasArts was. And DICE doing Battlefront would be kick-ass.
Free Radical's claims re: Battlefront 3 don't past the smell test. It was finished, and LucasArts never announced it? Were they just going to sneak it onto shelves?Fine with this. They'll do more with the license than LucasArts was. And DICE doing Battlefront would be kick-ass.
Battlefront 3 was finished, and it basically looked like Battlefield.
This will be the THIRD time Battlefront 3 will be made:
Rebellion's was about 60% done when Lucasarts took it from them and gave it to Free Radical.
Free Radical's was finished. It just needed time in QA.
Then Lucasarts did First Assault, which was basically a Battlefield 1943 version of Battlefront 3.