Disney made headlines in the last year after buying out
George Lucas’ companies LucasArts and LucasFilms for a total of over $4
billion. LucasFilms is most famous for creating the extremely popular Star Wars
and Indiana Jones franchises. LucasArts was founded in 1982, and created many
popular games including The Secret of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle.
However, LucasArts has recently been most popular for producing titles based
off of the popular films. These titles include the Lego Star Wars series and the
Lego Indiana Jones series as well as many directly-based Star Wars games such
as The Force Unleashed, The Old Republic, Battlefront, and Knights of the Old
Republic. However, Disney has just
announced that LucasArts will no longer we producing games, instead shifting
the Star Wars licenses to outside companies and cancelling all of LucasArts’
current production, such as the highly anticipated Star Wars 1313.
http://mashable.com/2013/04/03/disney-closes-lucasarts/#mwtg325
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