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- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Now Available on Mac! - 26 July 2012
Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed™ - Ultimate Sith Edition is now available on Mac and 35% off!* Buy it once. Play it on both Mac & PC! The story and action of Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed™ expands with the release of Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed™ - Ultimate Sith Edition, a special new version of the game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself. The Ultimate Sith Edition includes all of the original missions found in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed as well as content previously only available via download and an all-new exclusive bonus level. *Offer end Aug 2nd at 10AM PST.
- Free Mass Effect 3 multiplayer DLC on EU PlayStation Store today - 11 April 2012
Mass Effect 3's free multiplayer DLC pack Resurgance will be released on the EU PlayStation Store today. The offering includes two new maps and the opportunity to unlock six new character classes, including the first chances to play as the robotic geth and four-eyed batarian races. Enjoyable Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City and mediocre 5/10 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 are now available to download for fairly cheap prices, as is Goldeneye 007: Reloaded - although you'll need to stump up £39.99 to nab that. PlayStation Plus subscribers get PlayStation 1 survival horror Silent Hill free until 9th May, while everyone gets demos of bullet-time shooter Sniper Elite V2 and unnofficial Olympics cash-in Summer Stars 2012 to try. You can even dress up your Final Fantasy 13-2 characters in new costumes , including Ezio Auditore's garb from Assassin's Creed: Revelations. The full…
- Daily Wishlist Giveaway - Today's Deal: Star Wars The Force Unleashed Franchise - 12 December 2011
The Daily Wishlist Giveaway continues today on Steam. Each day 10 people will win the top 10 games on their wishlist! To enter, you must have a Steam account and a Wishlist with at least 10 games, and each day you will need to visit the gamepage of the featured daily deal. The Daily Wishlist Giveaway began December 1st and will continue into the holiday season. The featured daily deal today is Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition and Star Wars The Force Unleashed II at 75% off! Good luck!
- LucasArts making "Aerial Combat Title" - 15 September 2011
X-Wing and Tie Fighter dev LucasArts is hiring staff for an Aerial Combat Title. Experience with flight sims, aerial shooters and "especially space-based shooters" is considered "a plus", according to a senior gameplay engineer job advert . Could LucasArts be in the throes of reviving 1990's spaceship shooter series X-Wing? Other LucasArts job posts tease an action adventure game and a first-person shooter . There's no indication yet of what they are. A third Star Wars Battlefront game has long been lost in development purgatory, and was once in the hands of TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design. Earlier this year, LucasArts signed the Unreal engine for use in "multiple" titles. LucasArts boss Paul Meegan also promised to make better games than 5/10 effort The Force Unleashed 2 . Video: The recent Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2.
- Star Wars dev making openworld RPG - 23 August 2011
The maker of Star Wars The Force Unleashed is hiring for an openworld role-playing game. A job ad for a gameplay engineer, Tweeted by LucasArts' Clint Hocking , mentions the genre of the game. Hocking was the creative director of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Far Cry 2 at Ubisoft. He left in May 2010 after nearly nine years at the company to work as creative director for LucasArts on an unannounced game. The job advertisement calls for console development experience, suggesting the mystery game will at least appear on home consoles. LucasArts' last internally-developed game was The Force Unleashed 2, which disappointed critics upon its 2010 release. Eurogamer's The Force Unleashed 2 review force pushed a 5/10. In June this year LucasArts admitted its recent games hadn't been good enough - but promised to do better in the future. "LucasArts is a company with tremendous potential," boss…
- LucasArts promises to make better games - 2 June 2011
Star Wars The Force Unleashed creator LucasArts has admitted its recent games haven't been good enough but promised to do better in the future. 5/10 was the verdict in Eurogamer's The Force Unleashed II review . "While there are certainly pleasures to be had in The Force Unleashed II, they come off as the dregs of a concept that has run its course," wrote John Teti. Now, LucasArts plans to return with a bang with better games. "LucasArts is a company with tremendous potential," boss Paul Meegan told MCV . "I think people look at it and wonder why it hasn't done better in recent years. "Lucasfilm has some of the most beloved and powerful brands in entertainment, we have a loyal community of fans, and talented people in every discipline. We're surrounded by staggeringly bright and creative people at the top of their games. "In recent years, LucasArts hasn't always done a good job of m…
- Do Video Games Need an Incredibly Easy Button? - 27 April 2011
Sometimes Easy Mode just isn't enough. In today's Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Sullyville begs game developers for an option to skip the harder sections of games altogether. So I always choose to play games on Easy for a reason. I am not so good at them. I love games to death, but usually death is what ends up loving me. There are several games I have never finished. Not because I didn't love them, but because I kept dying. God of War 3 's spike room is the last thing I saw in that game. I never got by Force Unleashed 's star destroyer. You could tell me to "suck less", and all I can do is confess, "I suck." But as a result of this, I've stopped buying games and started renting them because I don't know if a game is going to stymie me at some point, and make me feel like an idiot because I spent $60 on a game I could only get to the third chapter of. So I am making a plea to all develo…
- More layoffs hit TFUII developer - 17 November 2010
Star Wars The Force Unleashed II developer LucasArts has confirmed a "minor adjustment in staffing". This round of layoffs first reported by 3Drealms' George Broussard on Twitter - is the second to hit the troubled studio since September. According to Broussard , who has been right about similar matters in the past, the Lucasarts layoffs "come from a team working on an unannounced game". But the company insisted it remains "committed" to making videogames. "LucasArts recently made a minor adjustment in staffing to help us better address the needs of the business," LucasArts said in a statement. "We remain committed to our internal studio - and to fostering relationships with trusted external partners - in order to deliver quality games that amaze and inspire fans." Overnight we learnt that Star Wars The Force Unleashed II was North America's fifth best-selling game for October. Haden…
- Kill Ewoks in Force Unleashed II DLC - 17 November 2010
The first downloadable add-on for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is set on the forest moon of Endor and sees players kill perhaps the cutest aliens ever conceived: the Ewoks. It's set during the time of classic film The Return of the Jedi, but presents a "what if?" scenario, according to IGN . It's all part of the "infinite universe", see. The Endor Bonus Mission, as it's called, adds new Achievements and Trophies. "One of the team's favourite is the 'Sith Kicker Achievement' but I'll let you figure that one out for yourselves," executive producer Gio Corsi said. It's of comparable length to the add-ons from the first game, such as the Hoth Bonus Mission. Starkiller will have the same abilities as he did in TFUII, so he's incredibly powerful from the start but the DLC assumes players picked the Dark Side ending. Boo hiss etc. The Endor Bonus Mission will be released "later this yea…
- Fable III atop of the UK chart - 1 November 2010
Update : UKIE has released sales figures for the top 10 games. These show that leader Fable III sold 128,895 copies since launch on Friday - 6000 more than Fable II managed. That makes Fable III the 13th biggest Xbox 360 launch ever. Halo: Reach, remember, is the largest. Fable III also represents Microsoft's third Xbox 360 exlcusive UK all-formats number one this year. Sales for the rest of the top 10 are as follows: * Fable III - 128,895; * FIFA 11 - 75,703; * Fallout: New Vegas - 69,613; * Just Dance 2 - 58,375; * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - 56,054; * Medal of Honor - 48,650; * WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2011 - 47,785; * Professor Layton and the Lost Future - 45,470; * The Sims 3 - 28,624; * PES 2011 - 26,732; Original story : Fable III is the new leader of the UK all-formats chart. The Xbox 360 exclusive beat off challenges from fellow newcomers Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (…
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - 26 October 2010
Say this for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II: there is no pull-the-Star-Destroyer-out-of-the-sky moment. The original game got a bum rap because of that Sisyphean boss fight and other missteps like it, not to mention an abundance of small technical glitches. The sequel was supposed to learn from those mistakes. And it does, somewhat. Sadly, this follow-up fails to learn from the things that made its predecessor great in spite of the flaws. Star Wars has been called both a space western and a space opera, and in The Force Unleashed, writer/producer Haden Blackman managed to capture both sensibilities in one crackling game. Starkiller was the ultimate gunslinger, riding into town and taking names (even the ones unpronounceable by human tongues). Yet he also played the central part in an epic tale of Wagnerian proportions, one that brought depth to the pre-Luke portion of the Star Wars t…
- Force Unleashed maker on why he walked - 14 October 2010
Haden Blackman, the man who created and then walked away from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, has made himself a new home: Fearless Studio. And he made it not because of "dissatisfaction" with employer of 15 years LucasArts, but because he wanted to make his own Star Wars. "My father has only given me a handful of advice in my lifetime. One when I took the LucasArts job was, 'Make sure you don't ever give up writing your own stuff or designing your own games.' It's because he knew that at the end of the day I don't ultimately control the destiny of where Star Wars goes, and I want something that I have more control over - and beyond that, to be able to try my hand at something new," Blackman explained to Gamasutra . "I really want to build big, story-driven action games," he added. "And I'm a big horror buff; I would love to do a horror game. That's kind of where our head-space is at ri…
- LucasArts Week - Monday's Daily Deal! - 13 September 2010
Enjoy huge savings all week on LucasArts titles! You will find a new title for sale each day this week. Monday's deal is 75% off of Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition . The Star Wars Collection will be 50% off all week: September 12th - 19th.
- Yes, Yes, We Know What You're Going to Say Next - 1 July 2010
Said Maurice to MTV: I'll just say that I have been paid to say the words 'May the Force be with you.' That's all I'll say. I'll just add that I won't be ordering any calamari anytime soon. It's given me a new respect for calamari , if you know what I'm saying. It's not a trap. This adventure takes place a long time before the trap. Good heavens, to what character might Lamarche be referring?! MTV Multiplayer speculated that we might "be getting a look at a much younger Ackbar, serving in the early days of the Rebellion." Maybe, but if X-Wing is canon - and it did not take place much later than the events of The Force Unleaded - I don't think he'll look or sound that much different. Admiral Ackbar To Appear In 'Force Unleashed 2'?
- George Lucas Said No To A Wookiee Superhero Game - 5 May 2010
The story propelling Lucasart's Force Unleashed is one of apprenticeship, Imperial cleavage, good and evil. It could have been about a Wookiee superhero, which would have been awesome , but no, George Lucas nixed that idea. In the latest issue of GamePro, developers Haden Blackman and Julio Torres remember the heady days of 2005, when the team was coming up with ideas on where/when to set Force Unleashed. "At one point we were kicking around an idea where you were playing a Wookiee," says Blackman. "It was going to be a big open world, and you'd be running around, and you'd be able to grab the heads of AT-STs and throw them at stormtroopers. It was a very over the top-style superhero game." But no. Blackman says Lucas himself turned that idea down, insisting that the game "needed to focus on character interaction and dialog". Right, the two things Star Wars does worst . Way to go, Georg…
- Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition Update Released - 10 March 2010
Updates to Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Version 1. 2 Information: * General performance increase on all supported configurations. * DMM performance increase. * Added Version number update in launcher. * Rogue Jedi's tunic is now visible during gameplay. * Emperor's arms are now visible during gameplay. * Fixed parts of the "Dark Lord's Armor" from continually bouncing;
