[An4ximandros]

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/04/03/disney-closes-lucasarts/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/04/03/disney-shuttering-lucasarts-game-publishing-arm/
http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/3/4179334/disney-closing-lucasarts-game-publisher-layoffs-reported
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/03/disney-closes-game-publisher-lucasarts.aspx
http://www.shacknews.com/article/78558/disney-closes-lucasarts-cancels-current-projects

 Damn, just... damn. I am seeing the end of an era right here and now. I grew up with games like X-Wing & Dark Forces, not to mention Monkey Island and Indiana. Damn.

[The E]

That era of LucasArts has been long gone, my friend, long before the Disney takeover was even hinted at. While I also grew up with those games, the company that produced them went under a loooooooooong time ago.

[TrashMan]

Not much to say...

Another company that marked my childhood gone..

[NGTM-1R]

As I was never going to get another X-Wing, much less a SWOTL, I'm decidedly uncaring.

LucasArts is now resting comfortably where it should have been some time ago, probably about the time KOTOR came out.

[MatthTheGeek]

Do we have any confirmation it's not April fool.

[An4ximandros]

This was reported for the first time less than an hour before I made the thread.

[0rph3u5]

Just saw it ...

The great era of LucasArts might have been long gone (though 1313 looked like a silver lining) but still it brings a tear to my eye to hear that the company might is no more ...

[newman]

Pretty much what some of the others have said - LucasArts hasn't made anything interesting (for me) in ages, and the era of games like X-Wing has been long gone with or without the Disney thing. It's not like LA planned on making other X-Wing sequels and now won't get around to it, so while I am sorry if someone lost his job over this, that's about the extent of it.

[Deathsnake]

Speechless...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta5HnoQ3rYg

RIP LucasArts :/

[MatthTheGeek]

This was reported for the first time less than an hour before I made the thread.

Doesn't mean anything. The events on this very forum have shown that there are still people that don't know how April's Fool is supposed to work.

[Mobius]

Weren't they supposed to develop a space sim based on Star Wars? I assume the project has been cancelled?

[An4ximandros]

As far as we know, every project undertaken by LucasArts got axed & canned.

[Mobius]

Shameful.

[MatthTheGeek]

Might be for the best. LA hasn't produced anything remotely good since Republic Commando in '05. Any other developer that wouldn't have produced anything good in 8 years would have been axed long before.

That's many devs laid off though.

[Lorric]

In the last link it says:

"After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games."

If I understand that right, as I'm honestly not sure, does that mean they're going to pretty much let other game developers bid for the right to produce Star Wars games? As a whole, I've never thought much quality has been released under the Star Wars name. And as a game developer, wouldn't you you just love to take a crack at making a Star Wars game? It could bring in some real innovation and fresh ideas/concepts to revitalise Star Wars based games.

[MatthTheGeek]

Bioware and Obsidian have shown that outsourcing SW games can have interesting results. It can hardly be worse than anything Lucasarts could have achieved in its current state anyway. We'll have to wait and see how this develops.

[Beskargam]

still want my battlefront 3

[Lorric]

still want my battlefront 3

Me too. I think that got scrubbed anyway, so this isn't going to negatively impact the chances of getting one.

[Mobius]

I was looking forward to the space sim they were supposed to develop. Damn it.

[BloodEagle]

I'm pretty sure they said that they were planning to do this, months ago.