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Star Wars Episode 7 expected in 2015 as Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4 billion
Swirling around the entertainment industry this morning is the news that George Lucas has sold his 100% stake in his company, Lucasfilm, to Disney for a reported USD $4 billion. The sale includes all...
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Obsidian keen to do another Star Wars game
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II developer Obsidian Entertainment is chasing opportunities to revisit the sci-fi property. CEO Feargus Urquhart told Rock, Paper, Shotgun that the developer...
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Obsidian’s CEO “would love to” pitch another Star Wars game to Disney
The team behind Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords could very well be back in the saddle if Obisidan’s CEO has his way. Speaking to Eurogamer, Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart...
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After shutting down LucasArts, Disney signs exclusive Star Wars deal with EA
Disney and EA have signed an exclusive deal for the production of Star Wars games, with their studios at DICE, Visceral and BioWare tagged to be involved in the production of future titles. While the...
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DICE opening new Star Wars games studio in California
Following the news that EA had signed an exclusive deal with Disney to give them the rights to all Star Wars games, the company is now opening a new DICE studio in California to focus entirely on Star...
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Disney registers domains for something called Star Wars Attack Squadron
It looks like Disney are gearing up to release something new under their recently-acquired Star Wars license, and it goes by the name of ‘Attack Squadron’. The company registered twenty-four different...
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20 cancelled Star Wars games listed in new book
According to an appendix in a new Star Wars book, LucasArts planned a lot more games than ever made it into the public eye. This probably isn’t a surprise to those of you who’ve paid attention to...
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EA hopes to do for Star Wars what Arkham did for Batman
Former DICE boss turned EA Games label head Patrick Söderlund hopes the publisher can do something special with the recently-acquires Star Wars license. “The most important thing for me is that we take...
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EA Canada developing open-world Star Wars game
The internet is abuzz with the news claiming that several job postings for one of the oldest studios around, EA Canada (which was founded in 1983, just for a random, useless Thursday fact), have...
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EA chief executive wants Star Wars games to get the Batman Arkham treatment
So, EA. They missed out on the most worst company this time around thanks to Time Warner Cable, and recent mutterings from CEO Andrew Wilson, who was speaking to CNN Money, might go a long way to...
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Uncharted creative director now working on Star Wars at EA Visceral
Uncharted creative director Amy Hennig has signed up with EA, working at Dead Space developer Visceral Games on a new Star Wars project. Hennig announced her departure from Naughty Dog last month,...
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Star Wars: Darth Maul footage appears on the internet from cancelled game
Back before LucasArts was unceremoniously shut down by Disney, they were working with a Texas development studio called Red Fly on a Darth Maul game. Originally a Nintendo exclusive, it eventually...
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Star Wars games hit by GameSpy shutdowns, Empire at War and Battlefront 2...
The Steam pages for both Star Wars: Empire at War and Star Wars: Battlefront 2 have been updated to confirm that multiplayer portions of the title will cease to function at the end of the month. “As of...
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LucasArts shut down three Factor 5 games, says ex-president
Now defunct Star Wars: Rogue Squadron developer Factor 5 had a couple of Star Wars games in the works that were cancelled over the years. Former president Julian Eggebrecht told IGN that rumours the...
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X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, Knights of the Old Republic 2 and more added to...
Old school Star Wars gamers finally got to play some classics last October when GOG.com added Star Wars: X-Wing, Star Wars: TIE Fighter and several other titles to their library. Today GOG.com have...
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Star Wars: Rebel Assault 1 + 2 now available on GOG.com plus many more Star...
Thanks to the efforts of Disney and JJ Abrams, the world has been infected with Star Wars fever again, and like Peggle Fever, the only cure for Star Wars fever is more Star Wars. So it is that GOG.com,...
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Steam is celebrating Star Wars as well and some of the bundles are pretty good
We like raving about Star Wars here on games.on.net. Why? Well, it helps that most of the games are pretty bloody awesome. TIE Fighter is still considered one of the best, if not the best, space sim of...
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Star Wars game from EA Visceral is like Star Wars 1313 and Uncharted, Nolan...
Nolan North, the voice actor responsible for playing many iconic characters in gaming, including Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series and Desmond Miles from the Assassin’s Creed series, has described...
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Watch Dogs and Splinter Cell producer Jade Raymond joins EA, will oversee...
Jade Raymond, a former Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Toronto producer, has created a new indie studio in Montreal, Canada under the ownership of EA titled Motive. In a post on EA’s website, Raymond said...
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Star Wars VR takes you through the probable future of the franchise – and...
A project created by HammerheadVR and two artists has been shown off at the Develop Conference has given people a view into what the Star Wars universe might be like when it is finally translated into...
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