Return of the PhoneSaber: Lightsaber Unleashed Announced

A while back we covered PhoneSaber getting pulled due to a request from Lucas Film. Well the original developers at TheMacBox are happy to announce the return of PhoneSaber, now officially titled Lightsaber Unleashed, which should be appearing in App Stores soon. It appears Lucas will be using the iPhone app as a marketing tool to promote its upcoming game title Star Wars ®: The Force Unleashed™. The devs say Lightsaber Unleashed will still be free and include new features: "vastly improved graphics, sound effects, and optional dueling music." Here's the full post from their blog:

There have been rumors aplenty that PhoneSaber would return in an official form to the App Store, and I am very happy to announce that it will indeed return, and should be available on the App Store soon. The app will have a new name and a whole new look. The new version, Lightsaber Unleashed, will have a strong link to the new multi-platform title Star Wars ®: The Force Unleashed™, which is out soon. Lightsaber Unleashed will feature exciting characters from this new game as well as vastly improved graphics, sound effects and optional dueling music (which was a popular request). We are still going to be publishing the application, and it will still be free. News will be posted here as it unfolds, but we hope users will be able to update their copy of PhoneSaber to the new LightSaber Unleashed when it becomes available through the App Store.

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