Electronic Arts is said to have ditched yet another Star Wars game.

Yes, another one – in 2017, the publisher closed Visceral Games, who was working on a single-player, story-focused Star Wars title, codenamed Ragtag, with ex-Uncharted Amy Hennig at the helm. A few of its elements were then taken over by EA Vancouver, whose idea (codenamed Orca) has also got cancelled in early 2019.

Kotaku reports that Electronic Arts has gotten rid of a third delinquent as well. It was said to be a spin-off of Star Wars: Battlefront. The next-gen project was codenamed Viking, and it was meant to launch in the Fall of 2020, but since the game wasn’t progressing that well in development, Electronic Arts has deleted it.

However, it happened in the first half in 2019, and Kotaku says the coordination was an issue between EA Vancouver and Criterion Games (the latter of which being located in London). It’s plausible, but EA Vancouver now has a SECOND Star Wars game getting the shaft. (And if we think about it, Electronic Arts got the license from Disney in 2013, and since then, they only released THREE games with the license. The two Battlefronts, and Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order last year. That’s it!)

Criterion Games is at least safe: they have been confirmed to return to the Need For Speed series, but keep in mind that this Criterion is not THE Criterion that had a lot of success in the 2000s with the Burnout series. It seems there are two Star Wars games in development – one of them will be a sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order at Respawn (who said the other day that they don’t want to be pigeonholed into the FPS genre… then again, the first game was something new for them, too), and the other title is a „smaller, more unusual” project at EA Motive, which, again, is not the same team after the ex-Ubisoft Jade Raymond (Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell…) left after the loot box flop with Star Wars: Battlefront II. She’s now at Google, as one of the key people behind Stadia.

When will the Mouse Empire get tired of Electronic Arts?

Source: PCGamer

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