At the time, LucasArts, the video game company created by Lucas in 1982 and run by Ward, was in disarray. The division was making too many mediocre “Star Wars” games, it was rife with internal ...

When Disney shut down LucasArts today, it brought an end to 30 years of experimentation in game development and publishing. But it wasn’t exactly a surprise to those watching the company, which has ...

At a press event Wednesday to unveil its new video game, Fracture, LucasArts–the video game arm of George Lucas’ sprawling science fiction empire–explained that the long-term scenario, beyond ...

LucasArts gave composer Jesse Harlin a home for 10 years before it was dissolved last week. In return, Jesse Harlin gave LucasArts a proper burial. Though studio closures and mass layoffs are usually ...

The Disney acquisition of LucasFilm last October included all of the company's subsidiaries, including Industrial Light & Magic, Skywalker Sound, and veteran game developer LucasArts. While news since ...

In November, just after purchasing LucasFilm, Disney CEO Bob Iger held a company-wide meeting. During the meeting, according to a source in attendance, a few people asked what was going on. What was ...

LucasArts has long been an innovator in the gaming space. Since George Lucas founded the studio in 1982, it’s gone through a few name changes and had plenty of great developers come and go, but one ...

Less than a year after acquiring the primary video game branch of the legendary “Star Wars” franchise, Disney is closing LucasArts Entertainment Company. According to a statement originally obtained ...

Pour one out for the Gold Guy tonight, my fellow gamers. A sage pillar of the industry has fallen. Just 154 days after acquiring LucasArts as part of their larger, $4B acquisition of Lucasfilm, Disney ...

Disney has announced that the company is shutting down recently acquired LucasArts though they will continue to license video games to third parties. "After evaluating our position in the games market ...