WRUP: Adios, LucasArts

Disney, which acquired Lucasfilm and LucasArts last year in a $4.05 billion deal, has shut down the legendary LucasArts division. "After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from anWe're all still reeling from Disney's shuttering of LucasArts yesterday, and tributes to the once-indomitable game studio are sprouting up all over the Web. One such tribute sure to bring a smile to programmer geeks everywhere comes from developmentGame developers rise and game developers fall, but this week's long-rumoured closure of LucasArts by new owners Disney is more than simply business for gamers who grew up in the 90s. To know LucasArts is to know its work during this golden age.We've said our goodbyes to LucasArts, a once great publisher of video games whose grim fandango came this week at the hands of a mouse. Feel free to share

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