Neowin News Feed for: Lucasarts

Nightdive's Star Wars: Dark Forces remaster gets delayed until Feb. 28, 2024

John Callaham — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:26:01 +0000

Nightdive Studios' previously announced remastered version of LucasArts' 1995 first-person shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces has been delayed from a fall 2023 release to Feb. 28, 2024. Read more...

New Star Wars: 1313 footage featuring Boba Fett surfaces

Asher Madan — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 17:12:01 +0000

Today, YouTube channel The Vault released new footage of Star Wars: 1313 featuring Boba Fett. The canceled game was supposed to follow the younger days of the infamous bounty hunter. Read more...

Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and Grim Fandango head to Xbox Game Pass

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 06:22:01 +0000

Microsoft and Double Fine Productions are finally bringing the remasters of classic LucasArts adventure games Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and Grim Fandango to Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass. Read more...

Limited Run Games to re-release Star Wars for NES and Game Boy

Boyd Chan — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 04:36:01 +0000

Almost thirty years after the original release, Star Wars for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy will be available in limited physical quantities from Limited Run Games later this week. Read more...

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

John Callaham — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:30:22 +0000

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 18:26:33 +0000

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 06:55:26 +0000

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 03:18:42 +0000

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 04:03:56 +0000

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 00:23:11 +0000

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 13:29:25 +0000

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 07:06:50 +0000

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 16:23:27 +0000

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 17:46:17 +0000

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 20:46:09 +0000

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 13:07:12 +0000

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 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:47:44 +0000

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 09:07:33 +0000

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 13:42:44 +0000

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 19:40:26 +0000

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 16:32:09 +0000

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 12:35:22 +0000

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...

Star Wars The Old Republic pre-orders begin; Collector's Edition revealed

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:54:16 +0000

The long awaited MMO Star Wars The Old Republic can now be pre-ordered from publisher Electronic Arts and a number of game retailers. The game from developer BioWare, set thousands of years before the Star... Read more...

LucasArts rejected taking Star Wars Galaxies free-to-play

John Callaham — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:20:52 +0000

A few weeks ago, Sony Online announced that it would be shutting down service in mid-December for its long running sci-fi MMO Star Wars Galaxies. At the time of the announcement Sony Online CEO John... Read more...

Star Wars Galaxies MMO to shut down December 15

John Callaham — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:33:06 +0000

Star Wars Galaxies, the movie-based MMO developed and launched by Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts, will shut down its servers permanently on December 15. The official announcement was made earlier today via a post on... Read more...

E3 2011: First details on Star Wars-based Kinect title

John Callaham — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:04:43 +0000

Ahead of Microsoft's pre-E3 2011 press conference on Monday, the first details of the long awaited Star Wars themed game for the Xbox 360's Kinect motion controller camera have been revealed. Entertainment Weekly's web site... Read more...

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II: PS3 Review

Byron Hinson — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:04:59 +0000

A few years ago, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed came out and all Star Wars gaming fans were excited. It was one of the few Star Wars games that looked like it might very well... Read more...

Major Restructuring at LucasArts

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:46:41 +0000

LucasArts confirmed today a major restructuring of its development studio. It marks the first change within the company since Jim Ward took over as president in May. "Since joining LucasArts in early May, I've taken... Read more...

Lucasarts Focuses on Star Wars: Episode III Game

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:31:26 +0000

Following the recent Lucasfilm Ltd. title announcement of the Star Wars®: Episode III Revenge of the Sith™ motion picture, LucasArts revealed today that it will release the Star Wars: Episode III video game on May... Read more...

New President for LucasArts

Wed, 05 May 2004 19:16:54 +0000

Ever since Simon Jeffrey abruptly left the company on October 9 of last year, LucasArts has been without a president. That changed yesterday, when Jim Ward was appointed to the position atop LucasFilm's game... Read more...

LucasArts Announces Star Wars Galaxies Expansion

Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:31:57 +0000

The realm of Star Wars Galaxies has finally extended to outer space with Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed, the first expansion pack for the MMORPG. Players will be able to engage in space combat... Read more...

Layoffs at LucasArts

Sat, 24 Apr 2004 13:08:57 +0000

Bells toll for more than two dozen studio staffers at the developer/publisher's San Rafael headquarters. Dark clouds formed over San Rafael, California, today as LucasArts laid off 29 of its employees. Before... Read more...

LucasArts cancels Full Throttle

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 21:57:31 +0000

The multiplatform 3D follow-up to Tim Schafer's classic adventure game is no longer in production. In a very brief statement, LucasArts has announced that it has stopped production on Full Throttle: Hell... Read more...

LucasArts releases a new trailer for JK2

Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:36:40 +0000

Jedi Outcast, the sequal to the 1997 hit Dark Forces II : Jedi Knight has a new trailer. The game follows the continuing life story of tragic jedi, Kyle Katarn fight for redemption.... Read more...