Star Wars’ Gaming Future Includes More Jedi: Fallen Order

In the final yr Lucasfilm has introduced its intent to deliver Star Wars to a broader vary of gaming builders, forward of a decade-long exclusivity take care of EA Games that ends in 2023. But simply because Lucasfilm has altered the deal doesn’t imply it’s not working with the developer on extra Star Wars adventures.

Lucasfilm and EA officially announced today that the businesses are engaged on three extra Star Wars video games with developer Respawn Entertainment, a studio greatest recognized for the Titanfall and Apex Legends shooter franchise.

One of the video games is a long-assumed sequel to Respawn’s personal Star Wars title, 2019’s Jedi: Fallen Order, which follows a younger former padawan named Cal Kestis (Gotham’s Cameron Monaghan) as he re-discovers his Jedi roots within the post-Clone Wars period. Respawn may also develop a brand new Star Wars first individual shooter, and work with new studio Bit Reactor (shaped from former veterans of the XCOM and Civilization studio Firaxis) to develop a technique title set within the galaxy far, far-off.

The three video games be a part of not less than yet one more in-development Star Wars title at EA: Bioware’s highly-anticipated remake of the beloved RPG Knights of the Old Republic, introduced late final yr.

The announcement could come as one thing of a shock to Star Wars followers after Lucasfilm Games introduced its intent to deliver a wider vary of builders to Star Wars gaming because it regarded past EA’s exclusivity deal. So far the outcomes have introduced an introduced motion recreation from Ubisoft and The Division’s Massive Games; the long-awaited return of the Lego Star Wars sequence; and the controversial reveal that troubled studio Quantic Dream—reeling from a sequence of authorized battles accusing its co-owners of fostering a poisonous work setting—is growing the primary online game set within the “High Republic” transmedia mission Star Wars: Eclipse. But there was nonetheless extra EA may do with Star Wars, even when it doesn’t completely maintain the keys to the proverbial X-Wing—particularly at Respawn, nonetheless benefiting from the heat reception to its work on Jedi: Fallen Order.

The proven fact that we’re getting extra video games within the Fallen Order world, and new tales in different genres like shooters and technique, must be an encouraging signal that Lucasfilm is nowprepared to push Star Wars video games in methods it hasn’t in recent times. We’ll have to attend some time to see the fruit of all this labor, nevertheless. We’ll deliver you extra on EA and Lucasfilm’s plans for Star Wars as we study them.