this week Lucasfilm announced the creation of a new brand Lucasfilm Games, under which all new games based on the studio’s franchises will be released. Moreover, at Disney big plans for the video game market.
Earlier it became known that the publishing house Bethesda Softworks working on a new game about Indiana Jones… The creator of the project is the executive producer The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Todd Howard.
An important development also happened: monopoly EA to develop new games in the Star Wars universe (Star Wars) has come to an end. Lucasfilm will now partner with other publishers. So, Ubisoft has already started creating an adventure project in the open world.
Insider WDW Pro shared rumors that Lucasfilm was thinking of returning to the gaming industry back in November 2023. Now his information has been confirmed.
It was noted that Disney was not very happy with the sales of games Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite, Marvel’s Avengers and scandals around Star Wars: Battlefront II… Therefore the resurrection Lucasfilm Games (so it was originally called LucasArts Entertainment) is a good maneuver to get more attention.
Mickey Mouse House the pandemic was also badly battered, forcing him to look for additional sources of income. One of them is the video game market, from which Disney left at one time.
The blogger doesn’t know why the studio ditched the much more recognizable LucasArts logo. Most likely, the decision was made to use a universal logo that can be displayed when launching games and before showing films.
An insider claims that Lucasfilm is extremely interested in reviving its old game projects, including classic quests from LucasArts. Therefore, the studio is negotiating with the main specialist in this area – the head Double Fine Productions Tim Schaefer…
WDW Pro also names one possible project that Lucasfilm Games is interested in. It’s about continuing the quest Day of the tentacle…
However, in the early stages of negotiations, there were two problems. First, Shafer is now heavily loaded with other projects. At the final stage of development is now Psychonauts 2, and without the participation of the eminent game designer in writing the script for the revival of the cult quest, it looks pointless.
An insider in November 2023 called the second barrier that Double Fine merged with Microsoft’s gaming division. Therefore, her games should be exclusive. Xbox and PC…
However, this point looks irrelevant, given the announcement of the game about Indiana Jones. Bethesda Softworks will also come under control in 2023 Microsoft, and PR people are active in social networks hint that Todd Howard’s brainchild will be an Xbox exclusive. Besides, Sony successfully produces exclusive Playstation games about Spiderman…
As for EA, the publisher has already announced that they are engaged in the production of several games in the universe of “Star Wars”, and the alliance with Lucasfilm “has never been so strong.”
EA is known to be working on a sequel Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order… There have also recently been rumors that the company is working on Star Wars: Battlefront III and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed III…
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