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  4. Posted

    http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749

     

    Staff were informed of the shutdown this morning, according to a reliable Kotaku source. Some 150 people were laid off, and both of the studio's current projects—Star Wars: First Assault and Star Wars 1313—were cancelled. Disney will still use the LucasArts name to license games, but the studio is no more.

     

    Publicly, Disney is saying their current games could be licensed out to a different publisher or developer, but according to our source, that's unlikely. Our source says Lucas has pursued the option for "one or both games," but nothing happened. "With the teams now basically being dispersed I think both games are effectively dead forever," our source said.

     

    “After evaluating our position in the games market, we’ve decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company’s risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games," LucasArts parent company LucasFilm said in a statement. "As a result of this change, we’ve had layoffs across the organization. We are incredibly appreciative and proud of the talented teams who have been developing our new titles.”

     

    This comes after weeks and months of rumors involving the studio, which was acquired by Disney last fall. In September, LucasArts put a freeze on all hiring and product announcements, which many staff saw as the beginning of the end. In February, we started hearing rumors that the studio might be shuttered. Today, it's official: the iconic development house is gone.

     

    The company was acquired as part of a mega-merger last year where Disney acquired LucasFilm and its sibling company from Lucas. Maniac Mansion, one of LucasArts' first self-published titles, introduced the "SCUMM" game engine driving several well known point-and-click adventure titles the company published throughout the 1990s. The Secret of Monkey Island, created by Ron Gilbert and co-written by Double Fine's Tim Schafer, is one of the publisher's best-known graphical adventures using the engine.

     

    The publisher's apogee was certainly in the 1990s, when a wave of Star Wars-themed titles for the PC—such as Dark Forces, X-Wing and Rebel Assault—were supplemented by games like the strategy title Afterlife, the Sam & Max series, and Schafer's Full Throttle.

     

    In the 2000s, the company became more reliant on its Star Wars products and licenses sold to other developers as new efforts like Fracture failed to take hold. The decade's most notable successes—Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Battlefront—were both externally developed, by BioWare and Pandemic Studios, respectively. LucasArts' last title to see mainstream success was 2008's Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. A 2010 sequel didn't live up to expectations. The last game published by LucasArts was Kinect Star Wars for the Xbox 360 last year, a game widely panned by critics.

     

    Now where did I hide that stockpile of pitch forks and torches...:veryangry:

  7. Posted

    Wow. 5 miles long and only 2.5 million tons? Did they buy Titanium-A from the UNSC or something?

     

    Still, JMS did do a better job than Halo:

     

    Beta probe cycled back. The mass was still there and as

    solid as before. It was the largest reading Ensign Lovell had

    ever seen: twenty thousand tons. That couldn't be a Covenant

    ship--they didn't get that big. - Page 137, TFoR

     

    It turned out to be 4 Covenant warships:

     

    1x Carrier (1455 meters long)

    1x Destroyer (1500 meters long)

    2x Frigates (1000 meters long)

  12. Posted

    Hm… What to do then? *Strokes his manly stubble. Looks at T‘lonak‘s post* You! Nameless Peon #000000002! Bring this imbecile here* so that We may amuse Ourselves by crushing his pathetic arguments.

     

    *Twirls mustache*

     

    *I attempted to go to him months ago when this thread was still fairly new. The comments never loaded properly so I didn't even bother making an account on DA.

  13. Posted

    http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/12/18/278706/israeli-squads-tied-to-newtown-carnage/

     

    Days later, the Sandy Hook Massacre, the iconic slaughter of twenty small children, is now looking like a terrorist attack, not a “murder suicide.” Was “lone gunman” Adam Lanza a “patsy,” the same word Lee Harvey Oswald used to describe himself before being “silenced” in November 1963?

     

     

    Today, Michael Harris, former Republican candidate for governor of Arizona and GOP campaign finance chairman, in an internationally televised news broadcast, cited “Israeli revenge” in, what he called, “the terrorist attack in Connecticut.”

     

    Harris cited Israeli “rage” against the US and against President Barack Obama. By “Israel,” we mean “Netanyahu.”

     

    The mission was to teach America a lesson, knowing that “America would take the punishment, keep “quiet,” and let a ‘fall guy’ take the blame.”

     

    A “fall guy” is another word for “patsy.”

     

    Harris, citing the flood of inconsistencies in the “cover story,” pointed out the following, “The facts are now becoming obvious. This is another case where Israel has chosen violence and terrorism where their bullying in Washington has failed. Israel believes the US “threw them under the bus,” particularly after the recent Gaza war, allowing Israel to be humiliated in the United Nations. Their response was to stage a terror attack, targeting America in the most hideous and brutal way possible, in fact, an Israeli “signature attack,” one that butchers children, one reminiscent of the attacks that killed so many children in Gaza?”

     

    Washington is terrified of Israel, their powerful lobby and its relationship with organized crime. Now, a key former Senator, Chuck Hagel, who has helped expose this fact, is likely to be nominated as the secretary of defense, despite vocal protests from Israel.

     

    Full article at the site. And oh god the comments.

     

    *Begins search for sufficiently dense tree to bang head against*

  14. Posted · Edited by Ado Mortumee
    EVIL!

    So any chance of convincing Vader999 to show up here? Because I am bored and he's just stupid enough argue in favor of the GE in a to Forerunner Vs Galactic Empire thread.

     

    Edit: Or maybe Strike Legion Imperium Vs. Galactic Empire instead.:devil:

  17. Posted

    *Watches as nothing happens again*

     

    And with that anticlimactic post I must now ask: Where in the Omniverse is the Primarch of the Blood Ravens AKA Carmen Sandiego?

     

    Hehehehe... Having a theft who’s stolen stuff like the concept of language and even the entire Milky Way Galaxy on your side is really helpful in these kinds of situations.

     

    And now I grow bored of this.

     

    *Vaporizes Khas with Forerunner Scattershot*

  18. Posted

    Strike Legion: http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/vampire-ships-bunny-commandos-and-space-marines-lets-read-strike-legion.196770/

     

    A bored Alien Space Bat transports an unarmed, naked Furry Rep- I mean Star Republic Ork Leg- I mean Fermorin Strike Legionary (see pg. 2 in link) into the Star Trek universe and makes the Borg aware of its presence. The initial force sent to assimilate the Legionary is a single Cube.

     

    Can the Borg defeat and assimilate it or will they ultimately be crushed by the might of the Star Republic’s finest?

  20. Posted

    *Grins*

     

    Execute order 117.

     

    *Eyes of the enemy force glow white before turning around to face Khas*

     

    What? Did you truly think I would be stupid enough to reveal my plans if there was any unassimilated forces left that were powerful enough to oppose me? Please don’t insult me like that.

     

    Time was your ally human. Now it has abandoned. This tomb is now yours.

     

    *Has Alicorn minion fling Khas into sun*

  22. Posted

    Bah! And this is why you all shall become peons in my new world order. You are weak. And Evil Overlords must be strong!

     

    Being (99%) serious now, I’ve been studying this damn Pony Memetic Virus ever since it infected me and I still can’t figure out how it successfully created two decent Fallout/MLP:FiM fusion Fanfics (which combined are over 1.6 million words. HOW! HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN AND BE TURN OUT TO BE GOOD!). Or the artwork. While I’ve only seen a very small amount of ponified Vs. non-ponified artwork (possibly my sample size is smaller than most due to still being stuck on dial-up and therefore virtually everything taking forever to load and the ponified artwork is a far larger percentage than I believe it to be) most of the ponified stuff has never bothered or impressed me.

     

    Fucking Memetic Viruses messing my mind up. At least I've mostly managed to twist it to my will...

     

    And now I remember what I was going to do today! Time to introduce the TBC-verse to the magic of orbital bombardment.*

     

    *The “magic of orbital bombardment” line is actually from one of the first Terminals in the 1995 FPS Marathon 2: Durandal. This is obviously proof that at least one person at Bungie had access to a time machine.

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