Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

If you were underwhelmed with LucasArts's latest offerings - namely, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - you can take comfort in knowing at least one person in the studio feels your pain. In a recent interview with MCV, company boss Paul Meegan admitted LucasArts has been performing just shy of its true potential over the last few years, and wants to see the studio to return to its former glory.

“In recent years, LucasArts hasn’t always done a good job of making games. We should be making games that define our medium, that are competitive with the best of our industry, but we’re not. That has to change," said Meegan...

May the 4th be with you! If you don't/didn't know, today(or yesterday technically) was May 4th, and it has basically become the official Star Wars day. Last year I showed the reported game-play data for some Wii Star Wars games, and there were 23,484,173 Total Hours reported from the Star Wars video game galaxy, on May 4, 2010. You can read last year's report, HERE! How many hours have been spent in the galaxy far, far away...in the last 365 days reported? Let's take a look!, says CoffeeWithGames.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed(SW:TFU) was released on all the home consoles on September 16, 2008. The Wii version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was developed by KROME Studios, and published by LucasArts. The Wii version originally released with a MSRP of $49.99, while the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions I believe released with a MSRP of $59.99; but all have since seen price drops, as just yesterday Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 was released on the current generation consoles. The play-time data shown below is only for the Wii version of SW:TFU, and it reflects play-time reported for the United States of America, not all of North America. With 770 days of game-play data reported for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, how many hours have Wii owners reportedly used their digital force powers? Let's take a look..., says CoffeewithGames.

The man at the helm of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, along with another LucasArts executive, have opened the doors at a brand new game studio.

Haden Blackman left LucasArts at the end of July without official plans on what his next venture would be. Today, he confirmed that Fearless Studios is open for business. The new game development studio is being formed alongside fellow LucasArts ex-employee Cedrick Collomb, who was the developer's director of engineering...

LucasArts has admitted that its development team wasn't quite up to speed on PS3 in the past - particularly when creating the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Apparently the Force is not with the PSP, as LucasArts has reportedly pulled the plug on the Sony handheld version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II.

The game will still be shipping out to pretty much every single other platform: DS, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, and even the iPhone. It seems like there would have to be something pretty wrong with a system for it not to be included in the game's repertoire...

 

Pre-order Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II from GameStop, and you’ll get a special Sith skin for Maulkiller. According to the promotional lore, forged a long time ago in a marketing department far, far, away, Maulkiller was created by Darth Vader at the cloning facilities on Kamino. The dual-wielding Sith hosts half of the genetic material from Darth Maul, and half from his own apprentice, Starkiller. Thus, we get “Maulkiller.” Get it?!?! He’s half-Darth Maul, and half-Starkiller! We always figured Vader was more creative than that.

 

Novels and comics based on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed have already been released, but the game’s executive producer Haden Blackman is hoping for more. Heartened by the production of a live action Star Wars television series, Blackman would like to see the characters from his game appear in a TV show or film…

Gamasutra writes: LucasArts's Star Wars: The Force Unleashed sold 5.7 units worldwide across all platforms since releasing in September, making it the fastest-selling Star Wars game in history. Several versions of the title were shipped, with LucasArts developing editions for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; Krome Studios for PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Wii; n-Space for DS; and Universomo for iPod Touch, iPhone, N-Gage, and other mobiles.

LucasArts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has won the Videogame Writing Award at this year's Writers Guild of America Awards.