14 DAY TRIAL // LucasArts has been featured in the news quite a lot lately. The company first revealed the name and style of a new Xbox Live Arcade and PC puzzle platformer, called Lucidity, and now the president of the company seems to be revealing that his outfit is ready to announce some new Star Wars-themed videogames set to be developed by some of the big names that worked for the company in the past.
Darrell Rodriguez, who is the president of LucasArts, has told GameTrailers TV that “a number” of new Star Wars videogames are being worked on. He then went on to mention the names of Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Ron Gilbert and Lawrence Holland, all well known game creators, before asking “Wouldn't it be great to work with them on some new things?”
Recently, the publisher said, when announcing the re-release of the old TIE Fighter and X-Wing games, that announcements related to new titles in those series were not far away and the mention of Lawrence Holland probably ties in with those projects, as he worked on the initial releases.
Other than that, it's not clear what LucasArts might be working on. At the moment, it is collaborating with BioWare on creating Star Wars: The Old Republic, a MMO set in the same time frame as Knights of the Old Republic, and also on a Republic Heroes title set in the Clone Wars period.
With the Wii Motion Plus now out and with Project Natal and the Sony wand ready to be launched in 2010, probably one of the most interesting videogames that LucasArts might create and publish would be a lightsaber duel one, allowing players to simply fight it out using one of science fiction’s most iconic weapons. Of course, a little back story would be nice, but getting lightsaber battles right would sell a huge amount of games.