On an earnings call for Electronic Arts shareholders, EA executive chairman Larry Probst told investors that the company will not release a Star Wars game during the current fiscal year.

The deal will involve game development contributions from EA's DICE, Visceral, and BioWare teams.

GameInformer points us to the Twitch.tv livestream channel of "PtoPOnline," which recently streamed over an hour of gameplay from Star Wars: Battlefront III.

Toys "R" Us jumps on the May the 4th celebration bandwagon by offering up a new Star Wars themed level in their popular kids game Geoffrey’s Jungle.

Zen Studios wants everyone to play Star Wars Pinball and to help make that happen they're offering 50% off the game across multiple platforms.

Fantasy Flight Games continues to expand on their popular Star Wars card game.

Attention all Star Wars gamers! The Star Wars Game Experience is an incredible weekend of Star Wars: The Card Game, Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game & Star Wars: Edge of the Empire - Roleplaying Game taking place at the Fantasy Flight Games Event Center in Roseville, MN on May 3rd - 5th. More info inside!

Gaming blog Kotaku has put together an excellent look inside LucasArts over the past few months, as the company's final day approached. The story starts in late 2011 with an announcement from then-president Paul Meegan and details the evolution of the company, including internal deliberations over ongoing projects like Battlefront III, right up until the division's closure on April 3.

Feargus Urquhart, the CEO of Obsidian Entertainment, recently emailed Eurogamer.net to express his sadness at seeing LucasArts close down. "LucasArts was a great supporter of Obsidian when we were first starting out," Urquhart wrote, "and many of their games are ones I, personally, count as favourites." He then went on to discuss a pitch he had for a new Star Wars game.

The reactions to Disney's closure of LucasArts were swift and numerous. We're compiling them here and will continue to update this post as new reactions and analysis comes across our radar.