By Jeff Moeller at 11:01am on July 24th, 2009 | Comment
Lots of adventure news this past week, and sounds like we can expect some Star Wars news later today. Here are the past week’s stories:
3rd Official Video Documentary – New gameplay!
More Force Unleashed DLC On The Way
Hunt for treasure!
Tales of Monkey Island contest begins; Internet tries to act funny
Podcast heaven!
Make Announcement at Comic-Con, They Will
LucasCast: Episode 10
SoMI has built a head of Steam
Monkey Island: SE on your iPhone
Dress up as a (virtual) pirate
By Jeff Moeller at 10:29pm on July 19th, 2009 | Comment
Update: The game has been confirmed by LucasArts and added to the app store. Go check it out for yourself!
After much speculation and hint-dropping by LucasArts about bringing Monkey Island to iPhone, confirmation has been found in the form of a Google advertisement that The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition will be brought to the iPhone App Store. Apple policy prevents developers from announcing titles until they are released, and no official LucasArts announcement has been made, but this is as close to confirmation as you can get, especially after LucasArts president Darrel Rodriguez as well as the official LucasArts twitter feed gave us the old “wink wink nod nod” on whether we’d see an iPhone release. From checking the App Store on my iPod Touch, the game does not appear to have been added yet, but I think we can expect an announcement from LucasArts as soon as tomorrow or perhaps later this week at Comic-Con.
By Jeff Moeller at 6:38pm on July 17th, 2009 | Comment
A new video documentary has been released at the official Star Wars: The Old Republic site, showing off the gameplay footage shown behind closed doors at E3. This includes fully voiced dialog scenes as well as some Jedi vs. Sith combat. Check out the full video at our partner site StarWarsMMO.net.
The Voice of the Old Republic [SWTOR.com via StarWarsMMO.net]
By Jeff Moeller at 6:34pm on July 16th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Is there more downloadable content for The Force Unleashed on the horizon? 120 points worth of achievements have been added to the game today without any kind of announcement thus far. Read more »
By Jeff Moeller at 5:03pm on July 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments
LucasArts are hyping up their appearance at this year’s Comic-Con, saying they will be making “several world exclusive announcements” next Friday. The announcements will be made during the Star Wars Spectacular keynote. So expect a new Star Wars game to be announced!
LucasArts will also be showing off some of their upcoming games, including Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, which will feature a “making of” panel at the show. You may or may not be able to expect coverage from the show on this site.
LucasArts Touts “World Exclusive Announcements” At Comic-Con [Kotaku]
By leXX at 1:34am on July 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Having played only a few adventure games in my life, I wondered what all the fuss about the LucasArts adventure games was. Being a member of LucasForums, you constantly read how the Monkey Island games are not to be missed, and they appear in many a top ten list of games. When I heard The Secret of Monkey Island was being released as a special edition, I was glad, not only because I thought it would be great for the long time fans of the series, but because now I would finally play it. Read more »
By Jeff Moeller at 6:05pm on July 13th, 2009 | Comment
If you hadn’t heard already, now you know. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is due to be released on Xbox Live Arcade as well as Steam this Wednesday. The game will be 800MS points on XBLA and $10 on Steam. So all you readers have no excuse not to purchase it! Remember, if this one sells well, there may be more on the way.
By Jeff Moeller at 6:16pm on July 10th, 2009 | Comment
Here is a feature I hope to do on a weekly basis. To make LucasNews the central hub for the LFNetwork, I’ll be posting up all the news from our network sites so you can keep up with anything we might not post. Here is what you may have missed from the past week: Read more »
By GonkH8er at 5:15pm on July 10th, 2009 | Comment
Another suggestive message via the @LucasArts twitter feed today, implying that we’ll see The Secret of Monkey Island : Special Edition as an iPhone release shortly.
“@lucasartsgames – For our Monkey fans – an iPhone sized wallpaper. No reason. Wink wink nod nod.”
The lovely LucasArts rep who has been updating the twitter feed has also been giving out codes for free steam games, so keep your eyes on that! You have to be quick though. Someone generally works out the missing letter within 2 minutes!
By GonkH8er at 3:45pm on July 8th, 2009 | 1 Comment
As promised 2 days ago via the @lucasartsgames twitter feed, the first 10 of the LucasArts “Classics” collection has been released on Steam, ranging from old-school adventure games such as Loom, through to newer releases like Star Wars: Battlefront 2.
The games are very reasonably priced, ranging from $4.99 to $19.99, so if you never had a chance to play some of the original LucasArts adventure games or even the newer releases that slipped you by, this is your chance.
Here’s an excerpt from the press release which surfaced earlier this week. Read more »
