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Comment by mariusmg | Hacker News Reader

It means they bought LucasArts too. Not that LucasArts were great in the last decade or so but Disney sucks as a "parent" for game dev companies (RIP Blackrock).

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On the other hand, a pixar-enhanced reboot of DOTT ... now you're talking ...

Or Grim-Fandango HD for iOS. A man can dream, right?

Grim was amazing. Currently replaying, but Full Throttle was where it was at.

I was thinking of replaying Grim Fandango and was sad that I couldn't find it on Steam or GOG.

Does the original version work well with Modern Windows flavors?

The game works pretty well with ResidualVM (http://residualvm.org/) on modern operating systems.

Yep. I play it on my Mac through Residual.

Look what I just read: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/04/pixar-d%C3%AD...

Grim Fandango the movie, anyone?

That is so cool. Thank you for sharing.

LucasArts hasn't existed in any real capacity for the last five years or so anyway, they've just been a licensing house. At least under Disney there is the possibility of finding some talent (unlikely, but possible).

Maybe. The problem is that Disney has so many parts of the company that are highly profitable (Marvel cinematic, Pixar, Disney proper, their many other movie studios, and now Lucasfilm) that it can be comparatively difficult to direct resources at smaller efforts. This is a problem at big companies like Microsoft and Google as well. Something that might flourish if it were let loose as an independent startup can easily languish at a company that has bigger fish to fry.

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