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Today, alongside the LEC Insider newsletter i recieved issue 1 of the LucasLearning 'Spark!' newsletter. In which it talks about some crazy looking little games:

Star Wars math: Jabbas game galaxy? (ages 6-8) In which you have to play little puzzle games to earn credits and fix your crashed ship.

Also,Star Wars Early Learning Activity Center? (ages 4-6) I which you can "Do a little "Deesco" dancing with Jar Jar Binks" amongst other crazy things.

Most importantly of all, to any readers slightly older that 7, is the Bombad Racing section which has an 'ask the team' style question

Who came up with those funny big heads in the Super Bombad Racing game?
Super Bombad Racing was created by the Lucas Learning art group. You can read more from the lead artist here

Finally, probably the coolest thing is the Halloween StarWars Costume creator where you can dress up SW characters in Halloween gear and send them to friends as an E-card.

The LucasArts Insider #3, emailed earlier this evening, also mentioned the great news that Battle for Naboo and Indy: Infernal Machine, both for N64, have gone gold, and are expected to be in stores December 18, and December 11 respectively. On the PlayStation front, Star Wars: Demolition has gone gold as well! It is expected to be in stores the week of November 13.

Today we post the first of 4 Exclusive new screenshots of Bombad racing, the Mario kart style StarWars racer from Lucas Learning, as our featured pic. This pic is from the PSX2 version of the game. The following 3 pics will appear once a week for the next few weeks, which will lead us up to an Exclusive Interview with the Bombad Racing development Team.
Thanks goes to LucasLearning for this great opportunity.

Star Wars: Demolition seems to be shaping into quite a nice little game to add to your collection. In this interview at Checkout.Com, Mike Gallo (the project leader), shares his insights into the game and has some interesting things to say. Read on!

We're getting into the E3 games now: LucasArts has announced that the Dreamcast game 'Jedi Power Battles' is available to buy. You can order it directly from their company store here.

There is an interesting Interview over at Tendo box with Brett Tosti, Project Leader for Battle for Naboo. Here's a snippet;

Tendo Box: We understand the game uses the same game engine as Rogue Squadron. What modifications were needed to the engine for this title?

Brett: Battle for Naboo does not use the same engine as Rogue Squadron. We are using some portions of Rogue's code but the majority of the engine is new. This was necessary to accommodate ground combat as well as air combat. We also wanted to have further drawing distances and more detail in our environments. These new features required a new engine. .

The interview is accompanied by some great concept art and a photo of the BFN team.

LucasArts' new screen of the week is from the upcoming Dreamcast game 'Demolition'. It looks quite cool, but it's kind of hard to see what's going on. Check it out here.

Source: LucasGames

IGNDC have just put up their review of LucasArts Jedi Power Battles for the Dreamcast. We'll have our full review soon, in the meantime, you can read the IGN article here.