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Ubisoft Massive are making an open-world Star Wars gameEA are no longer the only people making Star Wars games
EA are no longer the only people making Star Wars games
“We’re looking to work with best-in-class teams that can make great games across all of our IP,” Lucasfilm Games VP Douglas Reillytold the official Star Wars site. “We’ve got a team of professionals here at Lucasfilm Games who can work with the developers, shape the stories, shape the creative, shape the games, to make them really resonate with fans and deliver across a breadth of platforms, genres, and experiences so that all of our fans can enjoy the IPs that they know and love.”
Ubisoft Massive’s mysterious open-world game is being made under creative director Julian Gerighty, who also served in that role on The Division 2 andThe Crew. The Starlords also confirm that it’s using Massive’s own Snowdrop engine, which we’ve previously seen in games including The Divions, Mario + Rabbids, and South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
Until Ubisoft’s marketing campaign gets beyond teasers, I’m going to assume the game is about Jar Binks Binks. Tell me I’m wrong, Ubisoft. That’s right, I’m using your hype-building vagueness against you.
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Does this move signal a breakdown of Disney’s relationship with EA, as some have assumed? Unclear. Disney and Lucasfilm announced “a multi-year, multi-title exclusive licensing agreement with Electronic Arts"in 2013, and an EA execlater saidthat was for 10 years. And yup, since then, they’ve mostly been the only Star Wars games in town, aside from LEGO Star Wars and some mobile games. Did Disney bin the deal, or did the terms allow this move, or… we don’t know. But they are still working with EA.
“We’re really proud of the games we have created with EA,” Reilly said. “We will continue working with them and our relationship has never been stronger. While we may not have a lot of details to share at the moment, we’ve got a number of projects underway with the talented teams at EA.”
I found this pictureon the Star Wars siteand I hate it. But I’ll keep using it until you reveal more about your mystery game, Jann Ubisoft.
