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[[File:LucasArts_og.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The original LucasArts logo used from 1990 to 2005]]LucasArts was the name given to the subsidiary at Lucasfilm that created and licensed video game content from 1990 to 2013. Prior to 1990 and following 2021 it was and is known as Lucasfilm Games. Following the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm, Disney shut down LucasArts with all video game related licensing handled by Disney Interactive Studios and Lucasfilm itself, and an exclusivity deal with EA on Star Wars games made in the following 10 years. | |||
In 2021, LucasArts was partially revived as "Lucasfilm Games" with the intention of bringing back the LucasArts style of licensing with outside third party studios, and thus ending the EA exclusivity deal after 2023. The first game to be released outside of the EA deal and non-existing deals prior to the EA one barred (like Lego Star Wars) is Star Wars: Outlaws in 2024. | |||
Notable LucasArts games created by first party developing teams are Dark Forces, Dark Forces II, and Rebel Assault, The Force Unleashed, with many more games licensed to third parties publishers and developers such as Activision and EA who made games like Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, Knights of the Old Republic, Battlefront, and so many more. | |||
Latest revision as of 18:03, 20 June 2024
LucasArts was the name given to the subsidiary at Lucasfilm that created and licensed video game content from 1990 to 2013. Prior to 1990 and following 2021 it was and is known as Lucasfilm Games. Following the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm, Disney shut down LucasArts with all video game related licensing handled by Disney Interactive Studios and Lucasfilm itself, and an exclusivity deal with EA on Star Wars games made in the following 10 years.
In 2021, LucasArts was partially revived as "Lucasfilm Games" with the intention of bringing back the LucasArts style of licensing with outside third party studios, and thus ending the EA exclusivity deal after 2023. The first game to be released outside of the EA deal and non-existing deals prior to the EA one barred (like Lego Star Wars) is Star Wars: Outlaws in 2024.
Notable LucasArts games created by first party developing teams are Dark Forces, Dark Forces II, and Rebel Assault, The Force Unleashed, with many more games licensed to third parties publishers and developers such as Activision and EA who made games like Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, Knights of the Old Republic, Battlefront, and so many more.