16 Facts About Lucasfilm Games

Lucasfilm Games is an American video game licensor that is part of Lucasfilm.

Later, as Lucasfilm Games regained control over its licensing over the Star Wars franchise, LucasArts produced numerous action-based Star Wars titles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, while dropping adventure game development due to waning interest in the genre.

Lucasfilm Games was wholly acquired by The Walt Disney Company in December 2012, and by April 2013, Disney had announced the shuttering of LucasArts in all but name, keeping the division around to handle licensing of Lucasfilm Games properties to third-party developers, primarily Electronic Arts, and having any in-house development transferred to Disney Interactive Studios.

Early charter of Lucasfilm Games was to make experimental, innovative, and technologically advanced video games.

However, Lucasfilm Games recouped the cost of development by releasing a sized-down version called Club Caribe in 1988.

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Lucasfilm Games later licensed the software to Fujitsu, who released it in Japan as Fujitsu Habitat in 1990.

Lucasfilm Games released several side-scrollers during the Lucasarts era, focusing primarily on run and gun gameplay.

The adventures released in the following years, such as Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders in 1988, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure in 1989, and the 1990 titles Loom and The Secret of Monkey Island helped Lucasfilm Games build a reputation as one of the leading developers in the genre.

Totally Lucasfilm Games would continue to develop games almost exclusively to LucasArts for a decade, with the most noted outcome of the symbiosis being the X-Wing series.

Lucasfilm Games was president of LucasArts until 2003 and some successful Star Wars games released during his management like Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2, Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars Jedi Academy and Star Wars Galaxies.

Development of some other successful Star Wars Lucasfilm Games began during his management, like Star Wars Republic Commando and Star Wars Battlefront.

Lucasfilm Games was replaced by Howard Roffman as interim president.

Lucasfilm Games announced on April 3, 2013, that it was shuttering its video game development practice, laying off most of the LucasArts staff.

Later that week, it was announced that MachineLucasfilm Games was developing a game based upon the Indiana Jones franchise with Todd Howard serving as an executive producer and Bethesda publishing the game, and that Massive Entertainment was developing an open world Star Wars game with Julian Gerighty serving as creative director and Ubisoft publishing the game.

That same month, it was announced that Skydance New Media would be collaberating with Lucasfilm Games to make a game based in the Star Wars universe, with Amy Hennig leading the project.

Original Lucasfilm Games logo was based upon the existing Lucasfilm movie logo, with a number of variations on it being used.