EA CEO Provides A Brief Update On 'Jedi: Fallen Order'

By: Dominic Jones

These days, when it comes to Star Wars video games the news is rarely good.  There's been cancellations, and micro-transactions, and even more cancellations.  This pattern of bad news stories is something Electronic Arts (EA) is hoping will end when their next Star Wars project, Respawn Studio's Jedi: Fallen Order, hits shelves later this year. EA CEO Andrew Wilson gave a brief update on the game, speaking glowingly about a recent 20 minute demo he played, during the company's Q3 quarterly earnings call. 

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'Jedi: Fallen Order' Video Game From Respawn Announced For Holiday 2019

By: Dominic Jones

The next major Star Wars video game released has been announced!  Today during the EA Play event in Los Angeles, Respawn CEO Vince Zampella announced that the Star Wars game his company has been working on is called Jedi: Fallen Order.  The game will be set during the dark times (aka between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope) and players will play as a Jedi in the game.  Jedi: Fallen Order is slated for a Holiday 2019 release date.  No more details were announced, however Zampella did say that there would be a lot more to say about it during next year's EA Play.  You an see Zampella make the announcement below,

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Respawn's 'Star Wars' Game Expected to Launch in EA's Fiscal Year 2020

By: Dominic Jones

The next big release in the world of Star Wars gaming is still pretty far away.  Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson and CFO Blake Jorgensen held their annual Q3 conference call yesterday and they gave brief update about when fans can expect to see new Star Wars games.  They addressed the game that Respawn is working on, with Jorgensen giving fans a bit of an idea when they can expect that game.  Jorgensen said that Respawn's game, "most likely will drop in Fiscal 20 versus another [Star Wars] Battlefront."  EA's fiscal year 2020 lasts from April 1st, 2019 to March 31st, 2020.

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Respawn Entertainment CEO Briefly Talks About Upcoming 'Star Wars' Game

Still from Respawn's segment of EA's E3 2016 Look Ahead video

By: Dominic Jones

Founder and CEO of Respawn Entertainment, Vince Zampella (creator of the Call of Duty and Titanfall franchises) spoke with IGN recently and touched briefly on the upcoming 3rd person Star Wars game his studio is currently developing.  Zampella spoke about how a visit to Bad Robot Studios during the production of The Force Awakens that inspired him to pitch a Respawn Star Wars game to EA and how the game nearly didn't happen.  Check out the video below (the Star Wars talk begins at 41:12),

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EA Announces Respawn Entertainment is Working on a 'Star Wars' Video Game

By: Dominic Jones

In celebration of Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You), Electronic Arts announced today that they had entered into a new partnership with Respawn Entertainment to make a new third person action adventure Star Wars game.  Respawn is best know for their blockbuster series Titanfall.  The announcement was made by Executive Vice President of EA Studios, Patrick Söderlund in a post on the official EA Star Wars site. 

About working with Respawn on Star Wars Söderlund said,

Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with Vince Zampella and his group. Their obsession with making games that feel amazing has helped make Titanfall one of the most successful new game launches of this generation. And now, with a new team led by Stig Asmussen, we get to see what they can do when you combine that great attention to gameplay with the power of Star Wars. 

Game Director Stig Asmussen wrote on the official Respawn website,
We promise to pay respect to the Star Wars legacy at all times, a fact that will be constantly reinforced and honored as a central game design tenet.  Fans should expect the exemplary level of quality first established at Respawn with Titanfall, a game that epitomizes our studio’s dedication to slick, larger-than-life action and fun, groundbreaking mechanics.  Moving forward, we couldn’t ask for a better universe in which to continue this journey, and although I would love to share all of the exciting places we are going, we have the following piece of information to divulge with you all today:

We’ll be making a third-person action/adventure game set in the Star Wars universe.

Now, I understand on the surface this might sound a bit dry, but developing a game within the ever-expanding Star Wars universe opens up so many paths for us to go down, and an unparalleled playground to design within.  We have already planted the seeds by assembling a small, but incredibly talented team, ready for the amazing journey that lies ahead.  With this in mind we are looking to expand the dream.

Do you want to join us on a journey to a galaxy far, far away? We are hiring in all departments.

We probably won't learn much about this new game for a while now.  Details are still sparse on the Star Wars game Amy Henning and Todd Stashwick are writing at Visceral, and that was part of the original announcement that EA would be taking over the making of Star Wars games back in 2013!

What Star Wars game would you like to see from Respawn Entertainment?  Let us know in the comments.

Source: EA Star Wars

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