Disney closes LucasArts, Game cancelled

[Hayabusa]

Gamespot's reporting it.

Bastards...

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

1. PCGamer and The Escapist confirm.

PCgamer: http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/04/03/disney-closes-lucasarts-holds-onto-affected-licenses/
Escapist: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/123055-Disney-Closes-LucasArts?utm_source=news&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all

About 150 people laid off.

The first PC Game I bought was X-Wing. I remember playing Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders on the Commodore 64 and Amiga. I still hold out hope that those games, along with Grim Fandango and Full Throttle will some day show up on Steam or GOG.

I wonder if Star Wars 1313 got canceled in the process. Supposedly it's been on hold ever since Disney acquired everything Lucas.

[uriel1972]

2. I had hoped to see a new X-Wing title someday...

My hopes are ashes. However I recently got the Win95 version of Tie Fighter working on my Win7 x64 machine. Mmmmm, Star Wars goodness.

[DonCoquixote]

3. you know Disney will put out some version of Lucas games

It's not that we will nto see new titles, as Disney has the means, what is sad is that games like tSWTOR will be out in the cold.

[Hayabusa]

4. All I know is that they

Pull their games from Steam. I just bought Fate of Atlantis a week ago!

[Posteritatis]

5. I saw it put well somewhere else earlier..

The LucasArts I knew and liked actually died years ago; the one that got closed down wasn't it, and never would be again.

Still pissed about that kind of closure, to say nothing of losing more than a hundred jobs from one of the longest-running companies in the industry. Ugh.