Neowin News Feed for: Lucasarts

EA to publish new Star Wars games from DICE, BioWare and Visceral

John Callaham — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:30:22 +0100

Electronic Arts has announced that it has signed a multi-year deal with Disney to develop and publish new games based on the Star Wars universe for core gaming audiences. Read more...

LucasArts closing its doors after over 30 years

John Callaham — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:26:33 +0100

LucasArts, the game development studio and publishing arm of LucasFilm, will shut down after over 30 years in operations thanks to a decision made by LucasFilm's new owner Disney. Read more...

Star Wars Pinball for Windows 8, Xbox 360 and more announced

John Callaham — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:45:00 +0000

Zen Studios has announced it will release Star Wars Pinball, featuring three tables based on the sci-fi franchise, later this month for Windows 8, Xbox 360 and other platforms. Read more...

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II now on Steam

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:55:26 +0100

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords has finally made it to Steam to sit alongside its predecessor; it's now available for purchase and download for just $10 Read more...

Star Wars 1313 "gameplay" trailer released

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:18:42 +0100

A Star Wars 1313 gameplay trailer has surfaced, and while it doesn't go in to much detail on when the game will be released or on what platforms, it certainly looks very cool Read more...

Video: An hour of Star Wars Battlefront III footage

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 05:03:56 +0100

Despite the fact that Star Wars: Battlefront III was cancelled some time ago, breaking fans' hearts, Past to Present Online has posted up a sweet hour of gameplay footage from alpha builds. Read more...

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Collection coming July 17th

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 01:23:11 +0100

If you are a fan of Star Wars but have never checked out the Knights of the Old Republic series, now is your chance as a $20 collection is in-bound Read more...

E3 2012: Star Wars 1313 impressions

John Callaham — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:29:25 +0100

We got to see an early demo of LucasArts' Star Wars 1313 at E3 2012 this week, but we also learned the demo of the game may not look completely like the final product. Read more...

Star Wars 1313 announced; more details next week

John Callaham — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:06:50 +0100

LucasArts has announced plans to release a new Star Wars game, titled Star Wars 1313. Details are scarce but more information is expected to be revealed at E3 2012 next week. Read more...

New Star Wars game to be revealed next week

John Callaham — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:23:27 +0100

Spike will reveal the next major Star Wars game from publisher LucasArts early on Friday morning Eastern Time as part of the cable TV channel's pre-E3 2012 coverage. Read more...

Retro Wednesday: The Secret of Monkey Island

Tyler Holman — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:46:17 +0100

Arr, I wanna be a pirate (don't we all?)! This week we take a look at the classic LucasArts title, The Secret of Monkey Island, one of the funniest games of all time! Plus, woodchucks chucking wood! Read more...

Cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3 details revealed

John Callaham — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:46:09 +0100

The founders of the now defunct game developer Free Radical Design talk about their carreer, in particular the cancelled shooter Star Wars Battlefront 3 for LucasArts. Read more...

Star Wars Xbox 360 console to go on sale April 3

John Callaham — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:29:48 +0000

Microsoft has announced that the Star Wars special edition version of its Xbox 360 game console will go on sale April 3, along with the Kinect Star Wars game from LucasArts. Read more...

Star Wars The Old Republic to launch December 20

John Callaham — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:07:12 +0100

Star Wars The Old Republic, the long awaited MMO from developer BioWare and publishers Electronic Arts and LucasArts, will finally launch on December 20 in the US and December 22 in Europe. Read more...

Star Wars The Old Republic beta weekends delayed

John Callaham — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:47:44 +0100

BioWare has revealed that it is delaying its planned closed beta weekends for its upcoming MMO Star Wars The Old Republic, in part because the developer needs to test a new build of the game in-house. Read more...

Star Wars Galaxies fan website hacked

John Callaham — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:07:33 +0100

A fan site devoted to the MMO Star Wars Galaxies found itself on the wrong side of a hacker attack that exposed over 21,000 email addresses and over 23,000 passwords. Read more...

Star Wars: The Old Republic beta weekends to start Friday

John Callaham — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:42:44 +0100

As promised earlier this year, BioWare will be giving some members of the public a chance to play the long awaited MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic in weekend beta events starting this Friday. Read more...

Kinect Star Wars won't be released in 2011

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:40:26 +0100

Microsoft has announced that Kinect Star Wars, the upcoming Xbox 360 action game that uses the Kinect controller camera, won't make its planned late 2011 release date. Read more...

EA to limit initial sales of Star Wars The Old Republic

John Callaham — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:32:09 +0100

Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it will be limiting the number of copies sold for its long awaited MMO Star Wars The Old Republic. Read more...

Star Wars The Old Republic pre-orders numbers set record for EA

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:35:22 +0100

Game publisher Electronic Arts started pre-orders for the highly anticipated MMO Star Wars The Old Republic just a week ago. However the company announced on Tuesday that the pre-order numbers for the BioWare-developed game have... Read more...