Disney Pulls Plug on LucasArts, Nothing of Value Was Lost.

Today the internet (pretended it) was shocked when Kotaku told of it's insider source confirming Big Daddy Disney was shutting down LucasArts, a studio which technically died in 2005, and will now be using the studio just for licensing purposes.

  “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.”

 The news of this, however, brought up the fate of the highly anticipated game LucasArts had been teasing for a while now, which is the "mature" Star Wars based shooter, "Star Wars 1313". The fate of 1313 was addressed in this statement, from GameInformer

"All of these things happened at once. Naturally, as any company that goes through a big announcement like this, you have to look through your whole portfolio and realign some things. 1313 was looking fantastic, the reception has been great. Our other unannounced titles are fine, it just got to a point where from a business standpoint we couldn't continue developing those internally and keep up with the direction that the company was going."

 LucasArts jumped all up and down Twitter's top trends today, both domestically and world-wide, with many studios, journalists, and people offering kind words to the some 150 employees laid off.

The studio brought many games to life in the 90s with point-and-click adventure games like "Maniac Mansion" and "The Secret of Monkey Island", and critically praised shooters into the mid 2000's with games like "Star Wars: Dark Forces", "Jedi Outcast", "Rouge Squadron", "Knights of the Old Republic", and "Star Wars: Battlefront".

Their last "good game" considered by many was Battlefront II, since then they haven't put out anything of merit, with their last games being "Star Wars: Kinect" and the massive flop "Star Wars: The Old Republic".