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When it comes to the company's self-image, she says, "We see ourselves as continuing a longstanding tradition we've had of being storytellers... Both original stories and original franchises, and then how we've even evolved Star Wars with story, through the games we've created."

I put in a request to redo the art for a special edition of CMI to the producer in charge a few days ago. No reply yet. I'll keep you posted

It was because all of the LucasArts employees were given the chance to buy one of these fine 'stressed leather bomber jackets' with an "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" leather label on the pocket... this was just before the film (or the game) came out. In fact, I think anyone could buy one -- they may have been for sale in the LucasArts online company store. Anyway, I still have mine :-)

Can you see yourself getting involved with the ongoing boom in small-scale iPhone and browser-based games?
Some of the recent downloadable games have managed to retain their big-game production values, and I think that is really interesting. Just because you want to play a short game, doesn’t mean you want to play a cheap-looking game. I think there is a big future in small, beautiful, well crafted games. I can see Double Fine making all kinds of games. Give us enough time and we’ll try everything.

Most promising may well be a Star Wars game, developed by Microsoft and Lucasarts, that features controller-free lightsaber duels, complete with force powers like "force push".

LucasArts Singapore is working on a project in conjunction with the US. They will release Monkey Island 2 for the iPhone on 7 July. Our other project is definitely our secret and it's our biggest project and that is what we are recruiting for. It is going to be very interesting and different and also make a lot of people really proud to work there.

Thanks to you guys, we were finally able to complete our voodoo doll. Here is the trouble - all we needed was one. But we had so many ingredients (thanks to you), that we now have hundreds.

I suppose you better start watching for community events for your chance to get your hands on one. First stop - E3. See you there next week!

The Hollywood star is well-known for his portrayal of the archaeologist and adventurer, and has agreed to reprise the role one last time. Indiana Jones 5 will begin shooting next year, and much of the plot line will be centred around the Bermuda Triangle, an area over the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft are said to have disappeared.

“George (Lucas) and Steven (Spielberg) have been working on a script and it's almost there," a source explained. “Harrison is on stand-by for filming next year. This looks like being an emotional and exciting conclusion to the franchise, with Indy facing his biggest challenge yet.”

The last film in the franchise, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, was released in 2006. Shia LaBeouf played Indiana’s son Mutt Williams, and he will also appear in the new instalment.

Movie bosses have assured fans the film will stay true to the series’ roots, and won’t contain lots of state-of-the-art special effects.

“Shia LaBeouf has a central role again as Indy's son but this will be a blockbuster made in the old fashioned way rather than the CGI efforts of the last movie,” the source added.

"I think it's a prime time to reintroduce these properties in the digital world," said Dan Connors, CEO at Telltale Games. "Telltale Games has always set out to be a great storytelling company. We've been honing our chops over the past six years, and we're ready to take on these two iconic properties and continue to advance storytelling in games.

Before landing president of LucasArts, Meegan was CEO at Epic Games China and held senior positions at Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Shanghai and Jaleco Entertainment. He was also the founder of Sinister Games, Inc. and a partner at Axion Pacific Capital.

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The rumormill is alive and well the week before E3 with all kinds of speculation and hopefuls for the show. This news is reportedly legitimate, however, from TheNPC's which says that developer Telltale Games (known best for the Sam & Max titles and a few episodes of Tales of Monkey Island) has "confirmed that they are making an episodic Jurassic Park game across multiple platforms in this month's Game Informer."

Telltale has a new deal with NBC Universal to create games based on their intellectual properties. The first game under the deal will be a full "season" using the Jurassic Park license. It's unclear how many episodes that will entail, but previous Telltale seasons have lasted between four and six episodes, with one episode released every month.

Telltale CEO Dan Connors described the project: "For Jurassic Park, we will leverage Telltale's expertise in storytelling and game design to deliver on the tension and drama of the series creating the ultimate cinematic adventure."

The prizes are not yet set in stone, but the overall winner will win a grand prize that will include at least one of the following: an original piece of art from A Vampyre Story, an original piece of art from The Curse of Monkey Island, and an A Vampyre Story art book (in colour), signed by Bill Tiller.

I’m trying to make the grand prize as awesome as possible, so there may be more stuff. I’ll also try to arrange some cool things for the runners-up. An announcement on the exact prizes will follow later, but rest assured that you will win something awesome if you win.

Pedro informs us via his Twitter account, that his music has been used in a Brazilian soap opera called ‘Passione’. Sadly, they did this without asking permission. The piece in question is ‘I Smell Adventure’, which you’ll recognize from the Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island soundtrack. You can see this case of blatant music theft in action here on YouTube.

On an unrelated note, stay tuned for an exciting announcement here tomorrow!

"The Beast defeats the demigod of rock and the demigod of rock is entombed in stone and his legendary guitar is banished," Bright said. "[The guitar] is the source of his power. And so you are going through and assembling an army of warriors to be able to defeat the beast. Along the way, you'll have to recover the legendary guitar…" Guitar Hero characters like Lars Ümlaüt and Johnny Napalm also appear to have the ability to transform into a blue-skinned goblin and a half-man, half-boar warrior, respectively.

The game is being developed by Sony Online Entertainment (Free Realms), and will provide younger gamers with “exciting mini-games, dynamic activities, lively social events and thousands of customization options," all set within the universe created for the Clone Wars animated television series...

The game will be free to play, but will include the option to purchase a monthly subscription to access more content. There will also be numerous items to purchased via micro-transactions as well. In addition to mini-games such as droid programming and speeder bike racing, players will also be able to customize lightsabers and take on friends in the game's unique card-battle game.