EA reportedly cancels Star Wars game for a second time

Remember that ill-fated Star Wars game codenamed ‘Ragtag’ that was being made by Dead Space builders Visceral? It was imagined to be an Uncharted-inspired single participant motion journey, helmed by Amy Hennig, director of the primary three Drake ‘em ups. But it got cancelled (amid numerous development problems) and the entire challenge was thrown to Canadian studio EA Vancouver who have been then instructed to make an open world Star Wars game out of the ins and outs. Remember all that? Yeah, that open world game is cancelled too now, based on people who’ve spoken to Kotaku.

The challenge had modified to develop into an open world runaround wherein you play as a roguish character (a “scoundrel or bounty hunter,” say Kotaku’s sources) and group up with numerous identified teams from the Star Wars universe. But it’s been canned too, so the studio can choose up a “smaller scale Star Wars project” that may be completed sooner. There aren’t any studies of the studio being closed down, although, not like Visceral’s case in 2017. We’ve requested EA for remark about all this, and can let in the event that they inform us of any extra “fundamental shifts in the marketplace”.

EA is juggling a number of Star Wars stuff lately, so that you may understandably be confused. Don’t combine up any of the games I’ve talked about thus far with Jedi: Fallen Order, the Star Wars game that shooter studio Respawn is working on.

But sure, it’s all been a little bit of a saga. Visceral was shuttered after Ragtag’s first cancellation, and studio head Hennig left EA to start her own independent studio. So far her new studio hasn’t instructed anybody what kind of factor they’ll be making, but it surely’s unlikely to be Star Wars, which at this stage is actually a aid.

In my hometown, there’s a legend of a woman who died of fever and was dug up by graverobbers on the evening of her burial, solely to scream and get up once they lower off her finger to get a hoop. She went on to stay for a few years earlier than dying for actual a lot later. Her present headstone reads: “Margorie McCall. Lived once, buried twice.”

Ragtag is the Margorie McCall of videogames.