LucasArts are dead, but the Star Wars legacy lives on in video games through the guidance of Electronic Arts...
Amidst a host of rather groundbreaking game announcements in
the past few weeks, EA Games have confirmed to the world that they will be
handling the Star Wars video game
license from this point onwards. Sadly, that means the promising
next-generation project Star Wars 1313 has
probably been scrapped, along with the alleged Battlefront III prequel First
Assault, yet on the plus side with DICE, BioWare and Visceral all confirmed
as developers on new projects in a galaxy far, far away, it can hardly be all
negative news.
What may come as a surprise, though, is that despite the
onslaught of new Star Wars films
kicking off in 2015, EA aren’t necessarily in a huge hurry to produce licensed
titles of this ilk. Indeed, perhaps following in the wake of Warner Brothers’
hit Batman Arkham franchise, we’ll
see EA take their time with their new projects. We've had it confirmed that no
new Star Wars games will be with us
before March 2013, but as a negative impact for Nintendo gamers, confirmation
has also come that with the WiiU’s failure to sell, it’s looking unlikely the
new Wars titles will come to that
hardware. Nevertheless, it seems we have plenty
of new Lucas content to eagerly await in the years ahead!
The EA Games partnership with Lucasfilm on licensed Star Wars products has already
commenced, with future titles in the hit franchise expected to be teased during and beyond
E3 2013.
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