It is set after the fall of the Empire, with players taking on the role of bounty hunters, former Stormtroopers, and heroes of the rebellion, and a Wookiee warrior and female Sith also being shown. It's an arena combat game, something similar to Pokemon Unite. Given the timing, it's not impossible that it still releases this year, but fans should keep expectations in check until the showcase comes along.Īnother Star Wars game said to release this year is Star Wars: Hunters. Players can expect more LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga news at Gamescom, and hopefully, fans will get a new release date. In it, players are able to explore all 9 movies, with DLC based on surrounding properties. The company will remain a partner of Lucasfilm Games - but no longer with exclusive rights.LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is in development at Traveller's Tales but has faced a few delays due to the pandemic. That does not mean that EA is completely out of the picture. The publisher and its development studio Massive Entertainment is developing a new open world RPG set in the Star Wars universe. To achieve this, the old Lucasfilm Games label is being revived - not as an active developer, but as a licensing company. Instead, the company is opening up the IP to more developers. It is no big surprise then that Lucasfilm has little interest to continue with the exclusivity deal. Its successor, Star Wars Battlefront II, had a disastrous launch with pay-to-win lootboxes, a feature EA hastily removed after mass fan-outcry. Star Wars Battlefront was criticized for lack of single-player content and the expensive season pass.
And some of the games pushed out by EA were surrounded with controversies. EA had more in the development pipeline, such as Visceral's "Project Ragtag", a single player RPG cancelled in 2017. There have been a total of four EA Star Wars games - Star Wars Battlefront (2015), Star Wars Battlefront II (2017), Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019) as well as Star Wars Squadrons (2020).įor such a huge IP, a disappointing amount of games. Nearly a decade later, the deal with EA turned out to be semi-productive. No non EA-game would be set in the extensive Star Wars universe at least until 2024. That deal gave EA the exclusive access to the IP, meaning no one else would get a license.
Future Star Wars games, outside of casual titles, would be developed by Electronic Arts (EA). Thus, the decision was made to shatter the decades old LucasArts, formerly known as Lucasfilm games. Disney, the then new owner of Lucasfilm, had no business being in the AAA game development. In April 2013, Lucasfilm announced the closure of LucasArts, its game development division.
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