Wednesday, June 20, 2001

Mixnmojo goes LucasArts
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Spaff and Jake, two lucky guys from Mixnmojo, recently visited the Skywalker Ranch and LucasArts offices in California. The first part of their voyages is now published - go read it for some great descriptions and some brilliant photos about and from the inside of LucasArts!

Wednesday, May 30, 2001

Bill Tiller interviewed
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The Scumm Bar has conducted a very cool interview with a former LucasArts artist Bill Tiller. Bill worked on the art of The Dig, The Curse of Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. The interview also includes unused pieces of art from The Curse of Monkey Island which are awesome. Go read it now!

Brave New World
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Our move to Mixnmojo is over - we're finally settling in! Everything went smoothly, except for the forum (more on that later). All web pages should work normally as the directory structure didn't change in the move. The downloads are down for a while as I parse the FTP links. Our new e-mail address is lucasfans@mixnmojo.com - the old address will float around the site for a while until I catch all of them.

I installed a new PHP forum that's pretty cool. Go check it out, register and start postin'!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, feel free to mail me or leave a message at the forum!

Friday, May 25, 2001

Shields failing! All systems down!
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If you tried to access LucasFans during the last couple of days, you noticed that our servers were down. This was due to Adventure Gamer moving to a new domain. This change also means they will stop hosting us and the other sites in the AG Network.

I've been doing some early negotiations with Mixnmojo about moving there and adding LucasFans to the Mojo Network. Details about the move are still to be set and I'll let you know more once I know more myself. Stay tuned.

Wednesday, May 16, 2001

LucasArts announces new budget series
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LucasArts has announced a new mid-price collection series called LucasArts Archive. The first re-released titles include Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, The Curse of Monkey Island (also includes the first two Monkey games as a bonus!) and six Star Wars titles. Read more at LucasArts.com.

The games are already available at Amazon.com, $14.99 each:
The Curse of Monkey Island
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
Jedi Knight
Rogue Squadron
The Phantom Menace
X-Wing Alliance
Episode I Racer
Force Commander

Stop whining
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I wrote a short article about the common delusions brought up in the pre-E3 discussion lately. Read and think.

Thursday, May 10, 2001

Racer 2 announced
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LucasArts has announced their fifth E3 title, Racer Revenge - Racer 2. This sequel to the Episode I racing game, scheduled for Q1/2002 release, is set eight years after the events of the first game and is developed by Rainbow Studios, whose previous titles include Motocross Madness and ATV Off-Road Fury. (Don't think I've heard of either one of those.) Two more announcements to go before E3 - where are all the original titles?

Wednesday, May 9, 2001

Obi-Wan re-announced for X-Box
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In an anticipated move, LucasArts has re-announced Obi-Wan and switched the release platform from PC to X-Box. The Obi-Wan project was closed down a while ago since LucasArts felt they couldn't keep up with their high quality standards - does this mean the X-Box title will be of an inferior quality, then? :) Six screenshots are available at the LucasArts E3 site. The next game announcement is expected tonight.

Tuesday, May 8, 2001

LucasArts E3 announcements
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Three "new" games have been announced in the last couple of weeks at the LucasArts website: Galactic Battlegrounds (a Star Wars strategy game using Microsoft's Age of Empires engine), Starfighter Special Edition for X-Box (a conversion of the Playstation 2 Star Wars title) and Escape from Monkey Island for Playstation 2. The Battlegrounds game was revealed a few months ago in the press release, and the EMI for PS2 was also made public before the E3 announcement, so the only "new" title so far is the Starfighter SE (which, of course, is not new but a port to another platform instead). Where's the fun in that??

More announcements are still expected in the weeks ahead. Hope one of them is a new adventure (and please let it be for PC!). Oh, and do check out the funny Monkey Island: The Phantom Menace picture on LucasArts.com!

Tuesday, April 24, 2001

Chat with EMI designers
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LucasArts is holding another chat session with Sean Clark and Michael Stemmle, the designers of Escape from Monkey Island, to promote the release of the game's Playstation 2 version. The chat takes place this Friday (April 27th) at 6pm PST on LucasArts.com. (That's 1am GMT, me thinks.) The chat room opens an hour before the chat starts and you need to be a registered member at LucasArts.com to attend.

Source: LucasArts

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