13 years ago today, when LucasArts had just been shut down, EA announced a ten-year exclusive contract to produce Star Wars games. This mainly gave us the two Battlefronts (2015/17), Jedi: Fallen Order (2019), Squadrons (2020), Jedi Survivor (2023), Zero Company (2026), and Jedi 3 (2027?).

Battlefront 2 (DICE, 2017) "This year, 'Resurgence Day' is making a return on 23rd May, and ahead of it, yesterday's Star Wars-themed May the 4th celebrations have already boosted the player count on Steam. At the time of writing, Battlefront 2's 24-hour peak sits at 9,383 on Steam alone."

Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees (Sony Online/LucasArts) was released 21 years ago today.

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[Thread] Cockpits of X-Wing through time, in video games #MayTheFourth A remarkable testament to the technological evolution of video games. ✨ 1/27

Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (The Collective/LucasArts) was released 21 years ago today. #MayTheFourth

44 years ago today, Lucasfilm Games was born. 🥳

Full Throttle is 31. 🏍️

Star Wars: X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter was released circa 29 years ago today.

I've been wanting to do this for a long time: here's a deep dive into the creation of the TIE Phantom from Rebel Assault 2 (LucasArts, 1995). 🚀 And to keep with the mid-1990s vibe, this article is multimedia-rich, with plenty of videos and GIFs to make it more playful. 😎

Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing (Lucas Learning/LucasArts) was released 25 years ago! Published by LucasArts, Super Bombad Racing is the very last Lucas Learning game.

"Co-stars Sam Witwer and David W. Collins — who voice Maul and Spybot in "Shadow Lord," respectively — got their start together as a completely different dark side user and droid duo: Vader's secret apprentice Starkiller and his droid companion Proxy in The Force Unleashed (2008)."

If anyone here worked on Rebel Assault 2 (1995), let me know. 🖖

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (LucasArts, 2010): Kamino (1) map, level design doc by Ian Dominguez

Where are ya Marshall?! Outlaws (LucasArts) was released 29 years ago!

"g_saberrealisticcombat 1" remains one of the best console commands of all time (I hope I'm remembering it right; it's been a minute 😅). 💪🏼😎 I was sad when the setting got nerfed in Jedi Academy.😢 Fantastic read by @thespaceshipper.com about what is one of the best Star Wars games of all time!

Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles (LucasArts) was released 26 years ago this week. The beloved LucasArts 2000 action game got an enhanced version on PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox, Steam, and Switch in 2025.

This is some fantastic work.

Return to Monkey Island was announced 4 years ago today. (The game was released in September, 2022). Time flies as fast as dairies cows.

Kinect Star Wars was released 14 years ago today. Developed by Terminal Reality (Terminal Velocity, Ghostbusters), it was the last console game published by LucasArts (and Microsoft Studios).

13 years ago today, LucasArts was shut down 🙄🫡 But we're keeping the flame alive, and I'll soon be posting several in-depth articles on the development of certain games, including Rebel Assault 2. For Rookie One 🤟

"The current work-in-progress version of my LucasArts emulator DREAMM emulates over 20 Star Wars games. While getting them all working, I couldn't help but notice huge inconsistencies in how the opening crawl was handled from game to game." @aarongiles.com

To celebrate Jedi Outcast's 24th anniversary, I've updated my oral history. 🫡 You'll learn the full story behind the creation of this SW adventure, including how the same actor played both Gremlins and Luke Skywalker, and how LucasArts reacted when stormtroopers were cut down in pools of blood.

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (Traveller's Tales/Eidos/Giant) was released 21 years ago today. This game was made under license, but LucasArts only published the series starting with Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (2006).

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Star Wars: Rebellion (Coolhand Interactive/LucasArts) was released 28 years ago today (or close to it). I love this game 🤷‍♂️

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Traveller's Tales/LucasArts) was released 15 years ago this week. Star Wars: Force Commander (Ronin Entertainment/LucasArts) was released 26 years ago.

Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance (Totally Games/LucasArts) was released 27 years ago today (or close to it). I'm going to have a hard time accepting that the last Star Wars game designed by Lawrence Holland's team - the end of the X-Wing game series - is so old.😅

Star Wars: Anakin’s Speedway (Lucas Learning) was released 26 years ago.

This account has been created 7 years ago today (on Twitter) 🥳

[Upcoming game] Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains (June 11) Monopoly Star Wars was already adapted as a video game by Artech Studios and Hasbro Interactive in 1997.

Star Wars: Yoda Stories (LucasArts) was released 29 years ago. I think that, a decade later, it would have been a big hit on Facebook or mobile.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back NES (Sculptured Software/LucasArts) was released 34 years ago.

Star Wars: First Assault (LucasArts, canceled in 2013): Mos Eisley level What was almost the very last LucasArts game. Or even the start of a new series.

Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (LucasArts) was released 24 years ago today.

The PlayStation 2 is 26, and I already have a LucasArts thread about it:

It's a happy double anniversary for LucasArts, under the sign of the FPS. Dark Forces is 31 years old. Republic Commando is 21 years old.

Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb (The Collective/LucasArts) was released 23 years ago today.

[Thread] My LucasArts boxes Miraculously, I was able to keep my old LucasArts PC game cartridges from my teenage years, three decades ago. I saved them in 2019 after 20 years in a dark, cold, poorly insulated garage. I can't say the same about most of my NES and SNES games. 🤷‍♂️ #MyLucasfilmGames 1/25

[Thread] My LucasArts boxes Miraculously, I was able to keep my old LucasArts PC game cartridges from my teenage years, three decades ago. I saved them in 2019 after 20 years in a dark, cold, poorly insulated garage. I can't say the same about most of my NES and SNES games. 🤷‍♂️ #MyLucasfilmGames 1/25

LucasArts anniversaries this week 🎂 Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith is 28 🤯 Star Wars: Empire at War is 20! Star Wars: Starfighter is 25 is two days (and a little over a year before the movie of the same name, which will have nothing to do with it.)

Two other LucasArts anniversaries this week 🎉 Star Wars: Racer Revenge (Rainbow Studios/LucasArts) was released 24 years ago on PlayStation 2. Wrath Unleashed (The Collective), one of those little-known games published by LucasArts, was released 22 years ago.

Temporary logo from a promotional slideshow, 6 months before the game's release.

X-Wing (Totally Games/LucasArts) was released circa 33 years ago. I find it hard to accept that so many of my fond memories are a third of a century old. 😅

New interview about my time at #LucasfilmGames / #LucasArts with Jesse Petrilla / TechJesse now up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvLi... @lucasartsmemory.bsky.social @mixnmojo.com

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Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (Pandemic Studios/LucasArts) was released 21 years ago today on PlayStation 2 and Xbox. "Set in North Korea, a private military company has dispatched a lone mercenary to track down 52 fugitive members of the old hardliner regime."

"A group of hackers says they're on the precipice of breaking the PlayStation 5 wide open. The caveat? The hardware tinkerers say they need a highly specific game to pull a jailbreak off. That game is none other than the PlayStation 4 version of a 2002 game called Star Wars: Racer Revenge."

"New details have been revealed regarding the Knights of the Old Republic 2 false advertisement lawsuit for Switch consoles. This includes an argument made by one expert brought in by Aspyr who stated that the fan-made Restored Content mod the missing DLC was based on had "no economic value".