EA has announced today that Respawn Entertainment will be developing a new action adventure Star Wars game. In a post on EA’s website, Executive Vice President of EA Studios Patrick Söderlund said that he is thrilled to announce the new third-person title, and Respawn will be joining several other EA studios – Visceral Games, DICE, Capital Games, BioWare, Motive and more – who are also currently working on different Star Wars projects.
The team at Respawn working on this Star Wars game will be led by Stig Asmussen, who was the director of God of War 3. Asmussen responded on Respawn’s website with a letter expressing how incredibly happy he is to be a part of this project.
“I am happy to announce our partnership with Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm to deliver a whole new adventure to the galaxy.
For me, just typing these words is surreal. I have been playing Star Wars games my whole life, now I get to make a Star Wars game. On top of that, I get to do it at Respawn, a studio comprised of the most talented collection of game makers, creators, visionaries, and (most importantly) advocates for the player, that I have had the good fortune to work with. And we, like you all, have no shortage of Star Wars passion.”
Back in January, it was reported that Respawn was hiring for a new third-person adventure title, and it looks like we now know what that title is.
This news of course happens today, May the Fourth, which is known as Star Wars day among millions of fans.
Jennifer is a games journalist, former games journalist and PR Manager at Gearbox. They contributed 234 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: went on to write for Windows Central and later managed PR for Gearbox Software.