As promised, LucasArts today re-released the entirety of its Star Wars-based shooting and saber-swinging Jedi Knight series through digital distribution outlet Steam.

The five games are available in the $19.99 Jedi Knight Collection, or individually:

• Star Wars: Dark Forces - $4.99
• Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - $4.99
• Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith - $2.99... Read more

LucasArts' catalog of Dark Forces/Jedi Knight action titles will be available to buy on Steam and Direct2Drive starting this Wednesday, the company has confirmed.

The lineup will include all of the titles associated with the franchise, including the Jedi Knight expansion pack Mysteries of the Sith and the original Dark Forces. No word on pricing yet--check back on Wednesday for the full rundown.

With LucasArts' recent remake of Monkey Island having "surpassed all of our expectations," studio president Darrell Rodriguez has now confirmed that "we plan to do much more of this, both on Steam and iPhone and other platforms in the future."

The revelation came during a GameTrailers TV interview, which also saw the LucasArts president speak on reissuing the Jedi Knight games and the potential of new entries in classic franchises, such as Grim Fandango and Indiana Jones.

"Jedi Knight series is coming next week as well," Rodriguez said of the old Star Wars-based PC shooter/saber-swinging franchise. Just before... Read more

Update: More details and the first screenshots of Lucidity have arrived, with LucasArts specifying that the downloadable game will hit PC and Xbox 360 on October 7.

The company also noted that the "puzzle platformer" was crafted by the same internal team responsible for the recent Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition remake.

Original: After months of rumors about a new original effort dubbed "Lucidity," LucasArts today officially revealed the project. Coming to PC and Xbox 360... Read more

A new game by developer LucasArts will be announced this Friday, according to GTTV's Geoff Keighley.

Keighley says the "brand-new original game" will debut exclusively on GameTrailers TV at 12:30am on Friday.

The "original" part indicates that the game will likely be the studio's rumored Xbox Live Arcade title Lucidity. An image purportedly taken from the game (shown above) leaked back in July, but no other details on the title are known.

Star Wars Galaxies maker Sony Online Entertainment may be crafting another MMO set in the popular sci-fi universe, provided that Ten Ton Hammer is to be believed.

Citing an "inside source," the site reports that it "sounds like" the project is a casual MMO set during The Clone Wars television show, and that the game will use the same technology as SOE's recent free-to-play minigame-filled MMO FreeRealms.

The site goes on to speculate that should Sony create a casual-oriented Star Wars MMO that shared the distinct look of the Clone Wars series, it wouldn't necessarily "take on" BioWare's anticipated Star Wars MMO, which is set in the "Old Republic" era.

Today's Virtual Console re-release of Super Star Wars (SNES) was only the beginning, as publisher LucasArts today vowed that it will be bringing more of its console classics to the Wii's digital download service.

Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi will be joining Super Star Wars "in the coming weeks," with all three of the old-school Super Nintendo games going for 800 Wii Points ($8) a pop.

"Additional classic LucasArts games" were promised for the future, but none were named. Potential re-release candidates include Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (N64), Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (N64), SW Episode I: Racer (N64), Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures (SNES) and the long-expected Zombies Ate My Neighbors (SNES/GEN).

Though LucasArts has long ignored its library of vintage classics, the company has recently begun to embrace its heritage through remakes, revivals and re-releases.

As promised, several vintage LucasArts PC games are now available through Valve's digital distribution service Steam, with more titles said to be coming in due time.

Each of the ten games has been updated with Windows XP and Vista compatibility. The old adventure titles use "self-running executables"--LucasArts was quite clear they "don't use SCUMMVM or DosBox"--and now support higher resolutions plus smoothing.

As for the copy protection in certain games that required players to consult the manual, that still remains, and digital copies of the manuals are included with those games.

A complete listing of the initial batch of re-releases and their prices follows below:

• Armed and Dangerous - $9.99
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - $4.99 ... Read more

With LucasArts beginning to embrace digital distribution and its library of beloved classics, the studio once known for Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max: Hit the Road, Monkey Island, Full Throttle and others has suggested that iPhone ports may be on the way.

"On iPhone, you know Apple's policy that we can't talk about a release until it's ready to release," LucasArts CEO Darrell Rodriguez told Joystiq when asked about iPhone and iPod Touch editions of older titles. "But it would make sense that we would do something like that if we were to go in that direction ... wink wink, nod, nod."

Rodriguez further noted that LucasArts' Singapore branch, "which does the majority of our handheld titles," is playing with the PSP Go and "seeing what we can do [there]."

LucasArts has partnered with digital distributor Steam to bring "digital adventurey goodness" to the masses, with the first batch arriving Wednesday July 8.

"This series of launches continues LucasArts' new mission to revitalize its deep portfolio of beloved gaming franchises," the studio said in a press release, adding via Twitter that "this is just the beginning." The ten PC games contained in the initial batch are:

• Armed and Dangerous
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure... Read more

With LucasArts recently noting a desire to revisit more of its classic franchises, Telltale Games--the studio behind the recent revivals of LucasArts' beloved Sam & Max and Monkey Island franchises--has chimed in with talk of revisiting Day of the Tentacle.

"Feasible is a good word," Telltale CEO Dan Connors told VideoGamer on the chances of a new Day of the Tentacle entry. "I always think of Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island as the big three [LucasArts] franchises...I really love Day of the Tentacle."

"My ideas always get shot down, but I wanted to see, like a 32-year-old Hoagie, or Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne all grown up with jobs and what not, " he... Read more

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition could be but the first in a string of classic LucasArts adventure game revivals if the sales figures support it, reports WAtoday.

"If this sells," said LucasArts community manager Brooks Brown, "there's no one at this company who doesn't want to do these games," raising hopes for re-releases of such fine adventure titles as Day of the Tentacle and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

"It's a matter of showing that there's interest and this market is alive and get people as excited as possible about Monkey Island Special Edition to show that these things can make it," Brown explained.

If the redrawn graphics--with the old graphics also available--full voice-over and re-orchestrated score weren't reason enough to buy The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition when it arrives on PC and Xbox Live Arcade in summer, this surely is.

LucasArts' classic Monkey Island adventure series is to continue with Tales of Monkey Island, a new episodic series by Telltale Games, the publisher has announced.

A revamp of The Secret of Monkey Island was also unveiled, updating the series's first title with fully redrawn graphics, re-mastered score and full voiceover, trailered below.

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Tales of Monkey Island continues the adventures of hapless would-be pirate Guybrush Threepwood on PC and Wii in five monthly episodes, the first released on July 7. Telltale's team boasts many series veterans, including designers Dave Grossman and... Read more

Following the accidential revelation of both LEGO Harry Potter and LEGO Indiana Jones 2 earlier this year, developer Traveller's Tales and publisher LucasArts today confirmed that LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues is due out this fall.

Coming to PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP, LEGO Indy 2 is said to offer "a tongue-in-cheek take on all four cinematic adventures of pop culture's most iconic archaeologist," including a LEGO-ized rendition of last summer's fridge-nuking theatrical blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

How (or if) the "tongue-in-cheek" takes on the first three Indiana Jones movies will differ from those found in the first LEGO Indiana Jones game is not yet... Read more

While the fate of Star Wars Battlefront III remains unclear, publisher LucasArts today announced a new entry in the third-person shooter series for Nintendo DS and PSP.

Dubbed Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, the game is due out this fall. Rebellion (SW Battlefront II PSP, SW Battlefront Renegade Squadron PSP) is handling the PSP edition, while n-Space (Call of Duty: World at War DS, SW: The Force Unleashed DS) has been tasked with the first Star Wars Battlefront title to hit Nintendo DS.

Alongside a "deep and engrossing single player campaign" centered around the rivalry between Force-sensitive clones X1 and X2, players will duke it out... Read more

Ending years of silence and rumors, BioWare and LucasArts today revealed that they have joined forces to produce a Star Wars massively multiplayer online game set in the Knights of the Old Republic Universe.

Dubbed Star Wars: The Old Republic, the title will allow players to choose between the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire factions, with each having unique classes and races. Only a PC version was confirmed in today's announcement.

No release date was given, with BioWare stressing that the game has no release window, though a past report suggested it would launch in 2009. The studio is "definitely planning" an open beta, BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk confirmed.

The story-based MMO will be set roughly 300 years after BioWare's 2004 single-player RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (PC, Xbox) and the Obsidian-developed sequel, or 3500 years before the beloved film series.

"We're making KOTOR 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and beyond--this game is that big, it's got that much content in it," explained BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka. "It's very... Read more

Following rumors that BioWare will be unveiling its new Knights of the Old Republic MMO later this month, BioWare and LucasArts have announced that they will be holding an event to reveal a new project on October 21.

The event, to take place at LucasArts' offices in San Francisco, promises "the official unveiling of the game that's been rumored about for years," according to Gamasutra.

After months of speculation, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitello spilled the beans on the new Star Wars MMO during an interview at E3.

Since then, rumors have circulated regarding when the companies might officially announce the game. Last week, a columnist for the UK paper The Daily Star teased that he would be filing a report on the title later this month.

A near-simultaneous launch on six platforms across four regions helped LucasArts sell 1.5 million copies of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and set some new records during the game's first five days at retailers, the publisher announced today.

According to the company, that makes The Force Unleashed both the fastest-selling Star Wars game and LucasArts title yet. A total of 4.3 million copies were shipped to stores worldwide, with the publisher preparing more due to "unprecedented demand."

Developed by LucasArts on the PS3 and Xbox 360, the physics-intensive action game hit North America on September 16, followed by a Australian and Southeast Asia release on Sept. 17 and a European debut on Sept. 19. External studio Krome handled the accompanying PS2, Wii and PSP editions, with n-Space on the Nintendo DS version.

"The record-setting sales of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed shows the undiminished power of Star Wars and its popularity across all media types, including video games," noted LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez. "We're blown away by the response."

A new game based off the adventures of Indiana Jones is headed to Nintendo DS and PSP, according to a listing from European game rating board PEGI.

Listed as Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, the action game is reported to be published by Activision, with no other details available.

LucasArts, the license holder for Star Wars and Indiana Jones games, is known to have an as-yet-untitled Indiana Jones title in development for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of LucasArts' upcoming action game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed were developed internally, while the PS2, Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP editions were outsourced to external studios.

Given that precedent, it is possible that the Staff of Kings listing is indicative of a similar multi-platform treatment for the upcoming Indiana Jones game, though no evidence is currently available to support or deny that speculation.

Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has confirmed that celebrated developer BioWare is at work on a MMO based on the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic franchise.

"We've got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development," Riccitiello told Portfolio.com. "The one that people are dying for us to talk to them about -- in partnership with Lucas, coming out of BioWare, which is, I think, quite possibly the most anticipated game, full stop, for the industry at the point when we get closer to telling you about it."

When asked pointedly if the game he was referring to was the oft-rumored Knights of the Old Republic MMO, the CEO simply responded "Yes."

BioWare has made several mentions of its in-development MMO project, but has remained characteristically silent on which, if any, property it would license for the title.

Earlier this year, however, BioWare and LucasArts announced that they had partnered for an unspecified project, leading many to speculate that the Star Wars MMO was indeed in development.

No release date or platforms have yet been revealed for the long-in-development MMO. A PC version is likely, though BioWare has made several comments indicating that it may be considering a console release as well.