Today is a sad day.

Lucas Arts, the magical gaming company, is dead.

See here for more details: http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749

For most of childhood the Lucas Arts logo would cause my heart to race. Whether it was Indiana Jones or Grim Fandango or  x-wing, they made great games. Their games were and are fun.  Fun because they were well designed, and because they exploited their material better than anyone had before.

Although the last several years have been poor, like a champion athlete, you just wanted to believe that they could dig deep and give us one last bit of magic.

But instead, like so many great athletes whose time has passed, management announced their retirement.

May the force be with you, always Lucas Arts.