Ubisoft Massive and Lucasfilm Games partner on open world Star Wars game, EA exclusivity has ended
The galaxy appears open for new possibilities.
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What you need to know
EA has had an exclusive license to work on different Star Wars games over the last eight years, producing titles such as the newest Battlefront games, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order andStar Wars: Squadrons. Thanks toWired, we’ve learned that Disney viaLucasfilm Gamesis partnering with Ubisoft Massive on an open world Star Wars game.
When Wired asked about what has happened with the EA partnership, they didn’t get specific information but only confirmation that Disney is now working with multiple development partners. “EA has been and will continue to be a very strategic and important partner for us now and going forward,” said Sean Shoptaw, senior vice president of Global Games and Interactive Experiences at Disney. “But we did feel like there’s room for others.”
Shoptaw added that “For us to go capture the amount of quality that exists in the world and be fast to market, it would be a big challenge for us to do that internally.”
Lucasfilm Games isn’t just partnering for Star Wars titles, with anannouncementyesterday revealing that Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames are now recruiting for an Indiana Jones title. It’s currently unknown what this means for the Avatar game that Massive Entertainment is working on, though presumably it’s still in some form of early development.
Execute Order 66
Respawn bucked the trend and created an amazing single-player Star Wars game. Set after Order 66 decimates the Jedi, one Padawan must flee from the Inquisitorius and help save the remaining Jedi.
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Samuel Tolbert is a freelance writer covering gaming news, previews, reviews, interviews and different aspects of the gaming industry, specifically focusing on Xbox and PC gaming on Windows Central. You can find him on Twitter@SamuelTolbert.
