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Disney laid off employees and LucasArts canceled all projects.

staff was informed of the decision this morning, according to a reliable source Kotaku. About 150 people were laid off, and both the current study, projects

Star Wars: First Assault

and

Star Wars 1313 - were canceled. Disney will continue to use the name of LucasArts games license, but the study is not.

staff was informed of the decision this morning, according to a reliable source Kotaku. About 150 people were laid off, and the two current research projects Star Wars: First Assault Star Wars 1313-were canceled. Disney will continue to use the name of LucasArts games license, but the study is not. Publicly, Disney said that their current games could be allowed to another publisher or developer, but according to our source, which is unlikely. Our source says that Lucas has exercised the option "one or two games," but nothing happened. "With teams now mostly dispersed I think both games are actually dead forever," said our source.

"After evaluating our position in the gaming market, we decided to change LucasArts internal development of a licensing model, which minimizes the risk of the company, while achieving a larger portfolio wide quality Star Wars games, "LucasArts LucasFilm parent company said in a statement." Following this change, we had layoffs across the organization. We are grateful and proud of the talented teams that were developing new titles. " This comes after weeks and months of rumors related to the study, which was acquired by Disney last year. In September, LucasArts has frozen in all advertisements and product markets, many officials saw the beginning of the end. In February, we began to hear rumors that the study could be closed . Today, it's official: the development of the iconic house is gone

The company was acquired in last year's mega-merger that Disney has acquired sister company Lucas and Lucasfilm. Maniac Mansion , one of the first LucasArts titles self-published, presented the engine "SCUMM" driving game several known point and click titles society adventure published in the 1990s. The Secret of Monkey Island created by Ron Gilbert and co-written by Double Fine, Tim Schafer, is one of the largest publishers of adventure games known that using the engine.

height of the editorial was certainly in the 1990s, when a wave Star Wars title theme for the PC, such as