PC

Zynga Adding Indiana Jones To Facebook’s Adventure World

Indiana Jones’ next video game will be on Facebook. He’s going to appear in Adventure World, the actually pretty good quest game from Zynga, makers of FarmVille. It’ll happen some time this October, according to a Zynga blog post.


December 21, 2010
In Real Life

What If Indiana Jones Was A… Classic PC Adventure Game

Oh, wait, it was. Twice. OK, then, if it was an even older adventure game, maybe it would have looked like this!


In Real Life

Happy Holidays From This Nice Man

The video game holiday cards keep on coming. This one is from Lucasfilm and is, perhaps, a preview of a new character being digitally added to The Empire Strikes Back.


July 31, 2010
News

Now Why Would Somebody At Sega Want To See Your Facebook Profile?

Yesterday, select Facebook data from over 100 million accounts turned up on a 2.8GB torrent file. It may shock you to know that employees at companies like Sega and Lucasfilm were interested in downloading said information.


January 22, 2009
In Real Life

Fancy Lucasarts Coffee Table Book, Now Partially Free

I asked for the Lucasarts history book for Christmas. My family and loved ones betrayed me, and bought me underpants and video games instead. Oh well. Now I can read some for free!


October 17, 2008
Uncategorized

LucasFilm Re-Ups Maniac Mansion Trademark

Don’t call it a comeback, but Lucasfilm has filed new trademarks for Maniac Mansion, its classic 1987 adventure game. The trademark filing was extremely (extremely) expansive, ranging from goods like “read-along children’s books” to services like “providing news programming in the field of entertainment relating to science fiction over an electronic network.” Relevant to our interests, the new mark also references “computer game software and video game software.”