

Now longtime readers around here will know that my favourite game is LucasArts X-Wing [and the other elements of that gaming franchise such as TIE Fighter and Alliance]. They were superb action flight simulators that immersed you in the epic Star Wars conflict between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire.

It's been more than a decade since the last game, X-Wing: Alliance was released in February of 1999 and I took the day off to stand outside Game at 08:30 on release day waiting for it to open. The space sim genre that was established by those games [and Origin's Wing Commander series] then began to fade for various reasons but fans, including myself have longed for a continuation of the X-Wing franchise since then.
However, there is now a glimmer of hope in the future for those with layers of dust on their Wingman Extreme joysticks. There's now a new president at LucasArts, one Darrel Rodriguez, and he seems intent on revisiting the company's past glories in an effort to update the best of what has been before rather than continue on the failed path of recent years. In the past few months, LucasArts has begun to release its library on Valve's superb game-on-demand downloading store Steam. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition for PC and Xbox 360 was released in the past couple of weeks, a remake of the classic adventure game with improved graphics. Now G4 recently asked Rodriguez about the possibility of X-Wing and TIE Fighter returning. His answer: "We don't have any announcements now, but stay tuned. We will soon."
For those of you who've not experience the games and read this all the way down here: you're probably thinking "That's it? - Not even an announcement?" But for those of you who have sat behind the control stick of an X-Wing or a TIE Defender: this could be the greatest gaming quote of the decade. More as soon as I get it.
Source: IGN
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