Vader "Noooo", Etc: Disney Closing LucasArts

Oh dear. Disney have told Game Informer that LucasArts studios are shutting down, although the name will remain to hold the licenses. They explained: "we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model." This means Star Wars 1313 is a goner.

There's clearly quite the story to be told here, but for such a once-mighty studio to have fallen unto complete abandonment must be one of the most catastrophic failures of management in gaming history. That or some kind of Lovecraftian curse. Yeah, maybe that's it. Our thoughts are with those developers who are now out of work.

[Alternative headline: "LucasAren'ts"? Yeah? Big bucks, right here.]