The world of Star Wars gaming is in fairly impolite well being nearly now. Within the final couple of months alone, we have gotten two of the best-reviewed video games to return out of that galaxy far, far-off in ages within the type of XCOM model techniques joint Star Wars: Zero Company and high-octane podracing banger Star Wars: Galactic Racer. Now, after weeks of whispers and years of rumours, Variety is reporting {that a} lengthy clamoured for brand new title — Star Wars: Battlefront 3 — is in energetic growth at EA DICE and Respawn.
Information of a 3rd sport within the trendy period Battlefront revival — began with 2015’s Star Wars: Battlefront, and continued with equally ingeniously titled 2017 follow-up Star Wars: Battlefront II — will little doubt be music to the ears of Star Wars followers. Battlefront II, which overcame micro-transaction primarily based controversy upon launch to change into a feature-rich and worthy sequel to DICE’s 2015 resurrection of their very own shooter franchise, acquired its final replace six years in the past, that means just about all the Disney+ period of Star Wars — together with Andor, The Mandalorian & Grogu, Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew, The Bad Batch, Maul: Shadow Lord, and extra — has been left untouched and untapped within the non-Fortnite gaming world. Presumably, any new sport would rectify that dearth of up-to-date content material, and probably characteristic maps and characters from new and upcoming initiatives too, like Star Wars: Starfighter (and, after all, Glup Shitto of the moment, Biddy Blas!)
Information of Battlefront 3 being in energetic growth comes on what has in any other case been one other tough day within the gaming business, one which has seen EA affirm that 3% of its present workforce (roughly 14,000 staff) are being laid off and that legendary studio BioWare — of Mass Effect, Knights Of The Old Republic, and Dragon Age fame — is being shut down. However hey, at the very least we’re getting Battlefront 3, a brand new Jedi collection sport, and that Iron Man one, too, eh? Silver linings and all that…