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Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert share their thoughts and memories of LucasArts as the studio shuts its doors.

While Star Wars games have become increasingly shoddy over the years, they were once consistently pleasing. In memory of the late, great LucasArts, shut down by Disney, Raven has released the source code of two such games from the Jedi Knight series, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. If you missed them in the early noughties, they were the first solid ways to have decent multiplayer lightsaber battles.

Disney has shut down publisher LucasArts and canceled current projects, moving into a licensed model for future Star Wars game development.

Star Wars: First Assault would have been a downloadable precursor to Battlefront 3--before it disappeared.

Star Wars 1313 has reportedly been put on hold to focus LucasArts' attention on Episode VII.

December 21 brought a lot of good news, including the fact that the world somehow didn't end after all, but the real revelation to celebrate was that the classic Grim Fandango is now playable on modern PCs. The first stable release of ResidualVM hit on that fateful day, doing a similar sort of thing for LucasArts' later adventure games what ScummVM does for the earlier classics.

The Walt Disney Company has acquired Lucasfilm and its subsidiaries, including its LucasArts video gaming division.

A purported leaked box art from Xbox seems to indicate that Star Wars: First Assault, which was trademarked a month ago, will be on Xbox Live Arcade.

LucasArts has registered domain names and trademarks for "Star Wars: First Assault," pointing to another possible franchise on the way.

Star Wars 1313's "Descent to the Underworld" trailer details the filthy underbelly of Coruscant.