http://www.telltalegames.com/wallaceandgromit Is there anything Telltale can do wrong?
Sam and Max's rebirth...
BONE's transition from comic to game...
Strongbad's leap to Wii and PC...
They go from strength to strength, while Lucasarts continue to thrash the deceased equine.
"In 2002, LucasArts recognized that the over-reliance on Star Wars was reducing the quality of its output, and announced that future releases would be at least 50% non-Star Wars-related. However, many of the original titles were either unsuccessful or even cancelled before release and currently LucasArts has again mainly Star Wars titles in production."
In 2006, Jim Ward, CEO of L.A actually admitted it'd take till 2015 to make new adventure games, with new Intellectual Properties, as seen below.
Two years on, after Telltale's mammoth success,
Lucasarts is pondering making Adventure games again already. And they thought the genre was dead. Fools.