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LucasFilm consumes LucasArts, Monkey Island 5 team re-assigned to star wars TV show pre-viz 29 Mar, 2006 / Comments: 4

By elTee


Well, practically. Of course, there is no Monkey Island 5 in production, but there are no good games in production either. This has been on the cards for some time, but today it gets just that bit closer. What does this really mean for our once-favourite company?

Well, it can't be good. Games based on movies are almost as bad as movies based on games, and in my opinion this is ILM's way of saying to movie distributors: choose us instead of WETA and we'll make you a game too!

Which of course, makes their simply dynamite marketing department's life a lot easier.

Source: IGN

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4 Comments

  • ThunderPeel2001 on 01 Apr, 2006, 11:56…
    "movie distributors" ?!?

  • Udvarnoky on 30 Mar, 2006, 03:24…
    Here's another IGN article from a few days before that is similar in topic and mentions the new Indy being discussed at GDC.
  • Scummbuddy on 29 Mar, 2006, 09:40…
    I can't wait to be able to actually play "A Kashyyyk Christmas". Best Star Wars TV episode EVER!
  • Gabez on 29 Mar, 2006, 08:11…
    Well, it makes sense for one of the worlds leading CGI companies to lift up their sister game developer who isn't too well anymore... and it also makes sense from a movie perspective, to use dynamic storyboards.

    It does seem that LucasArts are being a bit used though, and minimises the liklihood of original games even more. Still, games based on the Star Wars TV series might be very cool, potentially.