Confirming months of rumors, speculation, and even another confirmation from EA’s own CEO, BioWare and LucasArts jointly announced this evening that they are indeed at work on a new Star Wars MMO, entitled Star Wars: the Old Republic.
“Traditionally, massively multiplayer online games have been about three basic gameplay pillars - combat, exploration and character progression,” [...]

The Star Wars: The Force Unleashed demo did pretty well for itself when it released, and it appears the full game itself has followed suit. LucasArts announced this evening that the game has sold more than 1.5 million units worldwide, also making it the fastest selling Star Wars game and for the company.
“The record-setting sales [...]

Destructible environments are one thing. Terrain deformation is another. While games have used it in the past, it’s mostly been a visual showpiece, not an actual gameplay mechanic. The latter is Fracture’s very reason for being.

LucasArts demo for their upcoming Star Wars epic, The Force Unleashed, has officially become a record setter. It took only eight days for the demo to reach over one million downloads, and that’s only the Xbox 360 version. Add in the PS3 version, and you can add in another million. The previous record holder was [...]

Have some Star Wars Force powers left over from seeing the animated Clone Wars movie over the weekend? LucasArts is letting you let go of your anger on the dark side of things with a demo for their soon to be released physics based “break everything because you know you want to” Star Wars title [...]

Publisher Crave Entertainment is the latest company to leave the ESA, according to a report on GamePolitics. They now join the ranks of LucasArts, Activision, and Vivendi, who have all left the association in recent months.
The company will still, however, set up shop at this year’s E3. Crave published numerous games on the Dreamcast and [...]

LucasArts confirmed this afternoon the development of two new Star Wars games for the Wii and DS. Initially teasing the two games on the back on LEGO Indiana Jones a few weeks back, both titles will be based on the upcoming Star Wars: The Clone Wars animation projects and will be relesed in November.

“Working on [...]

Adding to the earlier unveiling of Rick Perry attending E3 2008 for a keynote speech, the ESA made another announcement today as they revealed the current list of exhibitors currently scheduled to take part in the event.
“Clearly companies and attendees value what the E3 Summit offers that nobody else can—a professional and efficient experience conducive [...]

The Entertainment Software Association confirmed today that LucasArts will not renew their membership with the organization. The second company to do so this month (Activision Blizzard left on May 2), LucasArts will still, however, take part in the company’s E3 event in July.
“Today, we can confirm that one of our members, LucasArts, has decided not [...]