Veteran developer and the director behind the upcoming Star Wars: Destiny of the Outdated Republic, Casey Hudson, has dismissed rumours that gamers must wait years for the brand new sport’s launch.
Whereas Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier urged {that a} launch by 2030 “is an *optimistic* guess” given Hudson’s studio, Arcanaut, was solely based in July, Hudson was fast to appropriate the file.
“Don’t fret concerning the “not until 2030″ rumours,” Hudson mentioned on X/Twitter. “Sport shall be out earlier than then. I’m not getting any youthful!”
The brand new Star Wars single-player RPG was revealed at The Sport Awards simply days after rumours swirled {that a} new KOTOR sport could possibly be on the way in which.
Now confirmed as a religious successor to BioWare’s Knights of the Outdated Republic, Star Wars: Destiny of the Outdated Republic hails from Arcanaut Studios and Casey Hudson, who was director of BioWare’s Star Wars sport and Mass Impact. It is set to be “an epic interactive journey throughout a galaxy on the point of rebirth the place each choice shapes your path in the direction of gentle or darkness”.
“After we developed the unique KOTOR, we needed to create a definitive Star Wars expertise – crafting an journey that consisted of all of the issues we dreamed of doing as Star Wars followers,” Hudson mentioned when the sport was introduced.
“Now, 25 years after we began work on that sport, our aspirations are equally formidable. Destiny of the Outdated Republic represents a possibility to discover a recent imaginative and prescient of a definitive Star Wars expertise, utilizing state-of-the-art know-how and sport design, and an all-new story crafted particularly to ship on the mixture of participant company and immersion in Star Wars that was on the coronary heart of KOTOR.”
