In a move to promote long-term growth of his businesses, George Lucas announced today that he is bringing his award-winning companies of Lucas Digital, LucasArts Entertainment, Lucas Licensing and Lucasfilm Ltd. into one organization (thanks HomeLan).

LucasArts Entertainment has updated their Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic site with Tatooine Features. The RTX Red Rock site is updated with new Wallpaper, Art and Screenshots. The Gladius official site got Scrolls, Arena and Equipment Update..

Fans who create game modifications (mods) based upon characters and elements in titles by LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC can now post their works on the Internet at LucasFiles. The new site, created by Lucas Fan Network (LFN), an independent collection of web sites dedicated to LucasArts and its games, is an exclusive and sanctioned online location offering a variety of mods inspired by LucasArts titles. The LucasFiles database also hosts unique fan produced content, levels, and an array of other media.

Today LucasArts posted the second of a four part history of LucasArts "Part Two: The Classics". The information in this story is based on company documents, historical publications from other developers and publishers, and past and present employee recollections.

September 19th at 5 pm PST there will be a chat with developers of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, "Jeremy Soule, music composer, Casey Hudson, BioWare Producer and Mike Gallo, LucasArts Producer". This chat will be hosted by Stratics. (check out World Time Zones to find out what time that is where you are)

Sam & Max, interactive entertainment's most beloved canine and rabbit combo, hit the road again first quarter 2004 in a long awaited adventure comedy sequel for Windows PC from LucasArts. The follow up to the critically acclaimed 1993 adventure classic Sam & Max Hit the Road® will dispatch the Freelance Police into a wild world of screwy and vaguely quixotic missions. Each one will be jam packed with nerve-jangling action, brain-busting puzzles, and the kind of easygoing banter one might expect from a talking dog and a naked, hyperkinetic bunny.

LucasArts today announced Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, which gathers the popular real-time strategy Windows PC game Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds and its dynamic Episode II mission expansion Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns in a single package. The value oriented Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, expected to release this October, will challenge players with more than 50 battle campaigns representing the classic and prequel Star Wars universe.

Today Lucasarts tossed up the first of a four part 'history of LucasArts'. This portion focuses on the company's origins, beginning in 1982 when video games were a new phenomenon. The information in this story is based on company documents, historical publications from other developers and publishers, and past and present employee recollections. (thanks TTG) "Coming next, Part Two: The Classics, 1990-1994"

LucasArts will bring Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a ground and air-based combat action game inspired by and expanding upon one of the Star Wars galaxy's most dramatic and intensely fought conflicts, to Nintendo GameCube and PS2. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, to be published and distributed by LucasArts and developed by Pandemic Studios, is expected to release on both platforms in fall 2002.

The brutal and spectacular gladiator battles of the ancient world serve as inspiration for Gladius, a turn-based action role-playing (RPG) game from LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC. Gladius follows the grand saga of two young heroes, Ursula and Valens, as they recruit and train a team of warriors to contend in the fiercely competitive gladiator games. The game supports both single and multiplayer modes and is expected to release spring 2003 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube.

100 years in the future Red Rock, mankind's first colony on Mars, is besieged by a brutal alien force and military leaders on faraway Earth are stymied - so they call on Radical Tactics Expert (RTX) Eugene Zeno "E.Z." Wheeler as their best hope in RTX Red Rock from LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC. RTX Red Rock is an epic third-person action-adventure expected to release spring 2003 on PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube.

Lucasarts has just announced that they’ve sign an agreement with The Collective for the publishing rights to Wrath. Wrath, one of the most sought after games in the industry, is an arcade-style game that utilizes turn-based gameplay with both action and strategy. Expected in 2003 on all next-gen platforms.

LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC and one of the Star Wars galaxy's greatest heroes make their Xbox video game system debut with the spectacular action game Star Wars Obi-Wan. Expected to release winter 2001, Star Wars Obi-Wan will bring all the drama and intense action of Star Wars to Xbox, one of interactive entertainment's most eagerly anticipated game platforms. LucasArts keeps us updated with yet some more new screens..

The critically-hailed STAR WARS Starfighter flight-action game series returns with the power of the Force in STAR WARS Jedi Starfighter from LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC. Inspired by the success of its predecessor, which debuted at the top of the PS2 sales charts upon release last March, Jedi Starfighter features the sleek and agile new Jedi starfighter from the upcoming motion picture Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones.