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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".

Star Wars: Obi-Wan (LucasArts) was released 24 years ago on Xbox. Not to be confused with Star Wars: Kenobi (novel, 2013) and Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV show, 2022).

Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare/EA/LucasArts) opened 14 years ago today and continues to be regularly updated.

Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo (Factor 5/LucasArts) was released 25 years ago on Nintendo 64 (and later on PC). A quarter of a century! Again, please release it on Steam & GOG! It's a shame to leave in obscurity the Star Wars game that Factor 5 made between Rogue Squadron and Rogue Leader. 🤷‍♂️

Upcoming Star Wars game “The Star Wars galaxy, with its wide roster of iconic characters, is a perfect fit for a collectible card game. The expertise of Zero36 Studio and CCG Lab makes them the right teams to deliver a Star Wars card game that brings the saga to life in a new way for the genre.”

Oh, that's why. "20 days after the game was released the studio was contacted by Disney saying its legal team wanted the mod’s credits “to be changed to reflect only real names, not gamer aliases”, and that other issues such as voice acting being provided by non-union actors were also problematic."

Rogue Squadron 3D (Factor 5/LucasArts) is 27! Box art by Greg Winters:

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords was released 21 years ago today. It was @obsidian.net very first game, made in just over a year, and what a game it was! Even if we had to wait for a fan mod to get the full adventure, it remains one of my favorite SW games.

Star Wars: Lethal Alliance (Ubisoft Montreal) was released 19 years ago. "As the deadly duo of a Twi'lek named Rianna Saren and her security droid, Zeeo, you must return with the plans for the most destructive weapon in the galaxy - the Death Star."

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (LucasArts) was released 23 years ago today on GameCube! Yes, you still can't play with The Mandalorian, but there is this neat Jango Fett adventure (now remastered).

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire was released 29 years ago today on Nintendo 64. "As Dash Rendar, it's up to you to protect Luke Skywalker and help the Alliance defeat the evil Xizor. Keep an eye out for deadly bounty hunters and stormtroopers--and may the Force be with you."

Armed and Dangerous (Planet Moon Studios/LucasArts) was released 22 years ago today. "Take a band of gun-toting rebels -a robot, a madman, a mole and a criminal mastermind. Then give them an impossible mission - pulling off the biggest heist of all time in the middle of a war."

Ron Gilbert on a 3D Monkey Island Having players “go around in a true 3D world, rather than as a 2D point-and-click game… I don’t really know how you would do the puzzle solving in [that] way and so that’s very interesting to me, to be able to kind of attack that problem of doing it in a 3D world.”

Ron Gilbert: “Certainly, recent events and recent things have gotten me more and more jumping on the ‘Eat the Rich’ bandwagon.” Though he didn’t detail which “recent events” drove that realization, he did say that “billionaires and all this stuff… I think are just causing more harm than good.”

What a shame.

Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter: Balance of Power (Totally Games/LucasArts) was released 28 years ago. "This expansion lets you fly for the Rebel Alliance's famous Rogue Squadron or join the Galactic Empire's notorious Avenger Squadron."

The Dig (LucasArts) was released 30 years ago! I love this game, considered graphically dated when it was released, but has aged so well. 👌 The Dig is still available on Steam and GOG, don't miss it!

Rescue on Fractalus! (Lucasfilm Games/Epyx/Activision, 1984): Jaggi Warrior, art by Gary Winnick @davidbfox.com : "We had to freeze the last landscape frame so [Charlie Kellner] could animate the running pilot and popping up Jaggi, so I came up with the explanation that you had to..."

Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (LucasArts) was released 28 years ago today on PlayStation. And only on PlayStation.

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Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (LucasArts) was released 23 years ago today.

Just had a really wonderful interview published at GamesBeat today with Erik Larsen, Studio GM for Capital Games on Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. This is a mobile-first collectible hero RPG in the Star Wars universe that's been live for over a decade now: gamesbeat.com/how-capital-...

WHERE ARE YOU, MARSHAL?!

Thrillville (Frontier Developments/LucasArts) was released 19 years ago.

Rogue Leader (Factor 5/LucasArts) was released 24 years ago today. Still waiting for a port or remaster. 🤷‍♂️

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (LucasArts) and Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues (Traveller's Tales/LucasArts) were released 26 and 16 years ago, respectively, this week. Art by the late Drew Struzan ↙️

Star Wars: Jar Jar’s Journey (Lucas Learning) was released 26 years ago.

TOTAL CARNAGE! Star Wars: Demolition (Luxoflux/LucasArts) was released 25 years ago today! "Trust it to be Jabba the Hutt to break all the rules. Podracing, having been outlawed by the Empire, was soon replaced by an even more dangerous underground sport, Demolition."

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels (Krome Studios/LucasArts) & Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Jedi Alliance (LucasArts Singapore/LucasArts) were both released 17 years ago this week.

The Curse of Monkey Island (1997): Shots animated by Anson Jew

The Curse of Monkey Island is 28! "Captain's Log: Guybrush Threepwood. Lost at sea for days now, I have no crew and no navigational instruments, no provisions except for a half eaten corn dog, and, unless I find water soon, I'm surely done for. I know there's nothing but ocean for miles and miles."

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (LucasArts) was released 24 years ago this week. It was a real-time Star Wars strategy game made on Age of Empires' Genie engine from Ensemble Studios. And it's available on Steam and Gog. 🖖

Today we celebrate Escape from Monkey Island (LucasArts), released 25 years ago, and Star Wars: The New Droid Army (Helixe/THQ), which is now 23 years old. 🥳

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Traveller's Tales/LucasArts) was released 18 years ago this week! 🎂

Knights of the Old Republic (Bioware/LucasArts, 2003) Jennifer Hale (Bastila Shan): "I did not see the twist coming! Knights of the Old Republic really showed me the level of writing, storytelling, and surprise that was possible in games. It was so adventurous and..."

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Developed by Terminal Reality (Terminal Velocity, Ghostbusters), Kinect Star Wars (2012) was the last console game published by LucasArts (and Microsoft Studios). One of its modes foreshadowed the finale of The Book of Boba Fett (2022).

Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan (Sony Online Entertainment/LucasArts) was released 20 years ago today!

Grim Fandango is 27! Calavera Café gambling room, art by Peter Chan:

Grim Fandango (LucasArts) was released 27 years ago today. What a masterpiece.

The Dig (1995) is such a great sci-fi adventure game. And it's funny, when it was released after six+ years of development and reboots, it was considered outdated in the new era of 3D. But it's precisely its graphic style that makes it age well. I replayed it a few years ago and loved it.

Gladius was released 22 years ago today. Still one of LucasArts' lesser-known games, and yet... "A fusion of traditional fantasy and Roman mythology, Gladius also brings together the traditional role-playing game with turn-based tactical games to create a unique experience."

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Pandemic Studios/LucasArts) was released 23 years ago today. "Your directive: stop the Separatists from reassembling an ancient Sith weapon of mass annihilation!" Fun game, it deserves a port or remaster.

Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed (Sony Online Entertainment/LucasArts) was released 21 years ago today.

There are several cameos in @annebras.bsky.social’s video! See anyone you recognize? #ZakMcKracken @lucasartsmemory.bsky.social

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (LucasArts) was released 15 years ago today!