Category Archives: Lucasarts

GOG has revealed that it has “gotten really far in talks” with one of the remaining three major publishers it put on its hit list a few years ago – but which one?

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Star Wars: First Assault remains mysteriously unannounced, but the evidence is mounting up.

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Star Wars 1313 has a new video available, which is a short documentary called Descent to the Underworld. Along with providing a bit of new information on the title, the video also shows off some rather nice artwork depicting the criminal underworld of Level 1313, deep below the surface of Coruscant. In the game, players will step into the shoes of a bounty hunter – instead of a Jedi this time – and while LucasArts has yet to announce platforms or release window for Star Wars 1313, some suspect it may be an early next-generation console release. We’ll see. Thanks, Edo.

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The snippets of shiny new gameplay footage in this Star Wars 1313 trailer may not be indistinguishable from reality, but they are indistinguishable from really awesome Star Wars action.

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Star Wars 1313 developer Lucasarts has discussed the topic of violence in games, particularly when photorealism is involved, calling its game both ‘mature’ and ‘not for psychopaths’.

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Industrial Light & Magic’s Kim Libreri has made a bold prediction for the future of real-time interactive graphics.

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Paul Meegan has left LucasArts, with no replacement named and no word of his destination.

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Ex-Lucasarts creative director Clint Hocking has posted a blog on the subject of replay value, stressing that gamers need more than just a ‘New Game+’ mode to make them feel like they’ve received good value for money. Hocking also feels Red Dead Redemption didn’t have repay value.

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LucasArts has openings for a senior core engineer and a senior animator for an unannounced FPS in the works, according to listings on its recruitment site. The engineer position states the game is in development for “current and Future Generation console and PC hardware.” No further information was provided on the title, but it may or may not be for the game Clint Hocking was working on before he departed the firm. Thanks, CVG.

It’s a sad day for Monkey Island fans, but a good day for LucasArts haters.

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Some chap – “Borman18” – has posted a full hour’s worth of Battlefront III gameplay on YouTube, as you can see below. Free Radical was working on this before the studio was closed in 2009 and bought by Crytek. There’s a great deal of content in this movie. Read it and weep. Or watch it and weep. Or just weep, OK?

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Clint Hocking has announced he is leaving LucasArts to move “on to something new.” He said his new endeavor will be announced after he deals with the “living hell of relocation.” Hocking joined the firm in 2010 after spending nine years at Ubisoft. Hocking was working on unannounced projects at LucasArts.

Star Wars 1313 creative director Dominic Robilliard has described Star Wars 1313 as a “linear, crafted, roller coaster ride.”

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Epic’s confirmed to CVG that Star Wars 1313 is being powered through Unreal Engine 3, not the next-gen Unreal Engine 4.

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Not to call out your lifelong obsession with George Lucas’s rapidly disintegrating sci-fi epic vision, but Star Wars 1313 is keeping it real, padawan.

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We don’t know when it will come out, or what it will run on, but we do know Star Wars 1313 looks pretty sweet.

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Someone’s posted a nice high quality capture of Spike TV’s exclusive Star Wars 1313 gameplay footage, and since nobody else will let us even peek at it, I present it here for your delight.

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LucasArts has unveiled its latest effort, Star Wars 1313 – a third-person action adventure with cover-based combat set on Coruscant.

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Spike TV will exclusively announce the newest game in the Star Wars universe, which debits at E3 2012. A tease will be shown first on May 31, as a part of the pre-E3 episode of GTTV, followed by the live, world gameplay premiere during E3 All Access Live on June 4 at 10.00pm EDT/7.00pm PDT.

LucasArts will be showing an “unannounced game in development,” to the press at E3, according to EGM Now. The site asked if the game would contain lightsabers, and the firm wouldn’t confirm or deny anything. It’s been previously announced the studio is using Unreal Engine 3 on a couple titles, one of which is an aerial combat game. Guess we’ll all find out what it is next month.