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Disney shutters LucasArts – CNN

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Disney is shutting down LucasArts, builder of Star Wars video games, such as 1313.

Fresh off a acquisition of LucasFilms, Disney is shuttering LucasArts, a company’s video diversion division.

As initial reported by Game Informer, Disney skeleton to take a many franchises underneath LucasArts’ control and permit them to third-party diversion developers. LucasFilm pronounced it would lay off workers “across a organization” as a result.

LucasArts is best famous for a work in a 1990s, including many, many Star Wars games (Rebel Assault, Super Star Wars, Rogue Squadron) and a innovative Adventure games (Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango). But a association has taken a backseat as of late, dropping usually a integrate of new Star Wars titles, Lego-ized versions of Star Wars and Indiana Jones games, a reboot of a Monkey Island franchise.

All were good, though nothing reached a heights of a studio’s prior work.

“After evaluating a position in a games market, we’ve motionless to change LucasArts from an inner growth to a chartering model, minimizing a company’s risk while achieving a broader portfolio of peculiarity Star Wars games,” a association pronounced in a statement.

Disney (DIS, Fortune 500) bought LucasFilms in Oct for $4 billion, creation Lucasfilm owners George Lucas a poignant shareholder in a media giant.


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