LucasArts is Giving Us a "Fracture"

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Good news! Vanguard video game publisher LucasArts is coming out with a new game that's not based on the "Star Wars" franchise! Bad news: It won't be one of their old-school adventure games like "The Secret of Monkey Island." Instead, "Fracture" will be yet another first-person shooter set on an alien world. Sigh. The big diff? They're introducing some next-gen technology that will allow players to physically alter the ground with grenades and such. Oh, just watch the trailer. It looks cooler than it sounds. If you still have a hankering for one of those click-and-point adventure games, try the new episodic "Sam & Max." We discuss it in full detail (with our Welsh corgi in our lap!) in this week's Up Down Left Right, asap's weekly gamer video.