MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
LucasArts, prior to its closure last year, was working on a Star Wars game starring Sith Lord Darth maul. Polygon has been flicking through the latest Game Informer which has word of the LucasArts and Red Fly Studio title, footage of which has since cropped up online – you can …
Read More »Uncharted creative director Amy Hennig heads to Visceral Games
Acclaimed writer heading up new Star Wars title
Read More »EA hires Amy Hennig for Star Wars project
Former Naughty Dog creative director Amy Hennig has joined Visceral Games to develop EA’s new Star Wars title, the studio has confirmed. In a post on EA’s The Beat blog, Visceral general manager Steve Papoutsis announced Hennig’s appointment. She’ll assume the role of creative director on EA’s currently unannounced Star …
Read More »Disney Interactive ‘preparing to lay off several hundred’ – report
‘Several’ hundred jobs are said to be at risk at Disney Interactive. Wall Street Journal says the cuts will begin tomorrow, suggesting that a significant number of the 3,000 strong Interactive workforce is under threat. Disney Interactive president Jimmy Pitaro, who took over from John Pleasants in November, is said …
Read More »Disney abandons Star Wars 1313 trademark
Promising LucasArts title may no longer be in development
Read More »Star Wars F2P shooter reporting in
Disney has announced its latest Star Wars game – a free-to-play space combat title by the name of Attack Squadrons. The title sees players duking it out in battles with up to 16 players. There are three modes of play: Free For All, Team Dogfight and Base Defense. Gamers can …
Read More »“Not making Star Wars games was a godsend”: The early days of LucasArts, Part One
Former LucasArts employee Noah Falstein discusses the iconic studio's atmosphere, its first successes and the support it received from George Lucas
Read More »EA Canada job ads hint at next-gen open world Star Wars game
Latest title based in iconic film franchise could be in development at Visceral Games and Vancouver studio
Read More »EA is not planning a Star Wars VII movie game
Star Wars VII: The Game looks unlikely to be gracing release schedules in late 2015. EA has said that a condition of its Star Wars licensing agreement with Disney was that it was not required to make what it describes as movie games”. We’ve done movie games over the years …
Read More »Disney deploys first Star Wars game
Fans of Tiny Tower and the Death Star are in for a treat. Disney has revealed its first shot at a Star Wars game having acquired the intergalactic license earlier this year. Developed by Tiny Tower maker NimbleBit comes Tiny Death Star. Similar to Star Wars’ fellow spin-off of the …
Read More »