Disney closes LucasArts -- Star Wars 1313 cancelled.

[richardhutnik]

bananaking21 said:

richardhutnik said:

bananaking21 said:
aprils fools much?

so they just bought the studio a few months ago to close it?

Disney bought Lucas Films, which owned the Lucas Arts games studio, to get the Star Wars IP under its fold, and everything else Lucas did.  They have now made the decision to not have Lucas Arts around as a brand for selling videogames under.

ohhh, that makes sense then. are the games confirmed to be cancelled or could they still be in development but will be released under another brand name?

The quest now seems to acquire notable IP and then outsource to smaller studios to work on things, and hope they do sufficiently well enough with the IP.  Disney's mission now seems to acquire every single possible cultural landmark they can, and milk as much money out of it.  As it is now, it looks like they have cancelled all projects in the work and plan on spinning of the IP to studios who want to pay up, and not run much development studios stuff.  They sill have some stuff like their take on Skylanders with Disney IP project.