"Game over" for LucasArts - E24

Disney put down game producer LucasArts, according to Game Informer.

– After evaluating our position in the gaming market, we decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development model to a licensing model, said spokesman Miles Perkins Lucasfilm to your site.

– Thus we minimize its risks while achieving a broader portfolio of quality games in the Star Wars series, he continues.

The company also says that there will be layoffs “across the organization” as a result of the closure, but we will not how many people are affected.

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company has more than 1,800 employees, with most located at its headquarters in San Francisco.

Disney looks around now for external game developers to their Lucasfilm-brands.

company has developed games based on George Lucas’s films, including Star Wars and Indiana Jones. LucasArts is also the successes game Tomb Raider and Uncharted.

This is Disney:

• The Walt Disney Company’s income for the largest media and entertainment group in the world.

• company was founded in 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy Disney as a small animation studio.
  

• Group owns 14 amusement parks in the United States, France, Japan, China and Hong Kong.

• Owner cruise line Disney Cruise Lines, and has four ships.

• Owner multiple channels including ABC and ESPN.

• Built in the 90th century a new town in Florida named “Celebration”. The city is located at Orlando.
  

• Disney headquarters and main production facilities are located in the Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, California.

• company had revenues totaling 40.89 billion dollars in 2011.

• company has over 150,000 employees.
  

Bought Lucasfilm

LucasArts is a subsidiary of Lucasfilm, as Walt Disney splashed out just under 24 billion last year.

acquisition of Lucasfilm was the first acquisition, Disney has done since they bought Marvel Entertainment for 4.24 billion dollars in 2009 (around 24 billion).

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Star Wars creator George Lucas has stated that he has always envisioned that Star Wars would live on after his death, and that he therefore was keen to plan a transition.

Disney’s acquisition he thought this was secured.

– A premium portfolio

Disney CEO Robert Eiger was very pleased to have secured Lucasfilm and Star Wars in the portfolio, since the acquisition was a fact.

– This transaction combines a world-class portfolio of content including Star Wars and one of the largest entertainment concepts of all time, with Disney’s unique creativity across multiple platforms, businesses and markets, said Disney boss.

Disney already controls the TV channel ABC, ESPN sports channel, the animation company Pixar and Marvel Entertainment (well known for Spiderman and X-Men).

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