Jedi, fedoras, and carpal tunnel: A history of LucasArts

November 2, 2012 1:00 PM Jason Lomberg
Jason Lomberg

What if LucasArts never existed? What if the irascible filmmaker, beloved (and despised) the world over for his invaluable contributions to the pop-culture lexicon, had stuck to making space operas and juvenile fantasies about archeologists in fedora hats? What if George Lucas never entered the arena of gaming 30 years ago?

Disney’s recent history suggests it might not be ‘business as usual’ at LucasArts for long

October 31, 2012 11:20 AM Jeffrey Grubb
Jeffrey Grubb

The Walt Disney Company hasn't spent much time producing high-end games recently and instead focuses on a mobile and social strategy. It's admitted it wants to do the same with Star Wars.

Carmageddon devs run over Double Fine’s Tim Schafer in the name of Kickstarter

May 10, 2012 5:23 PM Dan Crawley
Dan Crawley

Who says that time is a healer? Stainless Games certainly don’t think so, as they’ve demonstrated by lovingly digitizing Double Fine Production’s Tim Schafer for their Carmageddon Kickstarter campaign, then running him over. Three times.

Help fund Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game, go bowling with them (updated)

February 8, 2012 7:46 PM Heinrich Lenhardt
Heinrich Lenhardt

Update: Double Fine Adventure collects over $680,000 within first day

As of 9 a.m. PST, more than 16,000 backers had pledged a total of $686,000 to the project (way over the $400,000 goal). Double Fine Productions mentioned that additional funds …