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2008 Jan 28 2008

LucasArts tries to return to the crest of the wave

Posted by in Action , Half-Life , LucasArts , gaming

The year was 1990 and the gaming division of George Lucas lived through a golden era adventure games like The Secret of Monkey Island or Maniac Mansion. In later years were clearly less with the odd moment of glory thanks to Star Wars, but nothing really new and important. After years in the abyss, the guys from Lucas want to return to the crest of wave and have engaged in the development of truly groundbreaking and innovative games.

The result of this ambition are three games in development that have a painted scene: The new Indiana Jones, Fracture and Star Wars: Force Unleashed. In the latter just came out a video that I recommend despite being in English. It said that thanks to this game going to live the true power of the force that finally feel being in the universe of Star Wars. This is not new. You have said a thousand times before. What is new is that they will mix the Havok physics works so well in Half Life 2, the dynamic movement Euphoria engine and DMM engine, with which you can destroy the world of Star Wars as you wish. The combination of these three technologies is impressive. In the video explain everything. Eye to QA as flipan ...



- Official website of Star Wars: Force Unleashed .
- Source of news: Joystiq .

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2007 July 9, 2007

Our 2 Christmases ago blunder comes true

Posted by at LucasArts , Nintendo , video games , Wii

It has made ​​me see how much grace visionaries who went to publish the blunder of 2005: "Nintendo has revealed that his command may be used as saber-laser among other curious Utilities" . In the news we announced that the command could be used as a lightsaber and that's ultimately what LucasArts has announced a year and a half later: "LucasArts is working on a Wii lightsaber" .

Eye assembly, in which a laser effectively out of the Wii Remote, and not lose the eye aa detail the information . She is cool.

At that time the news helped me to see that Nintendo does not make much sense of humor and people just read. I passed the link to several friends and acquaintances to laugh together and I thought it did not read more than the holder and, if anything, the first paragraph. Few came to see the end of the news this suspicious message: "Greetings to all on the day of the Holy Innocents!".

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