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LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

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Good old archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones gets the LEGO treatment. The game will be a parody of the first three movies of the eighties, directed by Spielberg. Expect a lot of platforming, puzzles and fun for all ages.

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LucasArts ditching 100 employees, outsourcing development?

Posted on Friday, 6 June 2008 by Speed, source: Kotaku
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Indy to be outsourced to third world countries?
Various anonymous sources have been reporting that LucasArts has laid off 75 - 100 employees from the company and that LucasArts plans to outsource those jobs in the future.

We've heard from multiple sources today that LucasArts has laid off approximately 50-100 of its employees, including a handful of higher profile names like VP of Product Development Peter Hirschmann.

While LucasArts public relations did not get back to us today, several former LucasArts staffers did, with one telling us that 75-100 employees were laid off from the company, including the producer of LEGO Indiana Jones and LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Shawn Storc.

According to another source, up to 80% of staff has been laid off in departments such as Production Services, which includes QA and Compliance, with jobs planned to be outsourced overseas. Cuts were also said to be made in development, with art and programming staffers being laid off
Recently, LucasArts president Jim Ward resigned and although his departure was stated to be due to personal reasons, voices inside LucasArts were telling a different story. Apparently he left under pressure due to having different philospophies with other people in the company and it seems LucasArts may well be licensing Star Wars and Indiana Jones IP to third party developers instead of doing in-house development.

If this is the case (and it looks like it if the layoffs are true) then things really don't look all too great for LucasArts as a development company.
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damn, outsourcing is imo never a good thing. Ohh well as long as force unleashed is going to be decent i'll be happy :)
damn, outsourcing is imo never a good thing. Ohh well as long as force unleashed is going to be decent i'll be happy :)
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Posted on 15:55, June 08th 2008
 

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