The Drive isn’t robust with the remake of traditional RPG Star Wars: Knights Of The Previous Republic, which has been delayed indefinitely following a badly obtained demo proven internally on the finish of June. Bloomberg reviews that the sport’s design director and artwork director had been subsequently fired from builders Aspyr Media through the week after the demo was finalised. Sources from Aspyr informed Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier that the sport had been supposed for a 2022 launch, however that 2025 was extra “reasonable”.
Folks acquainted with the KOTOR challenge stated that staff have been knowledgeable the sport is paused, and Aspyr will now be in search of “new contracts and improvement alternatives”. Insiders level to an absence of sustainability on the event of the challenge for its woes, with “disproportionate” money and time put into creation of the vertical slice demo supposed for approval by LucasFilm and Sony. Saber Interactive had been introduced in to assist on the KOTOR remake in Could, and it’s thought they could now take over improvement utterly.
The KOTOR remake was introduced in September final 12 months as a PlayStation 5 console unique, however was additionally supposed to return to PC. Aspyr has been engaged on the much-rumoured challenge for round three years, and had beforehand introduced ports of the unique Knights Of The Previous Republic video games to cellular platforms. For now, we’ll should make do with the superb 19-year-old model of KOTOR. LucasFilm shut down a somewhat tasty wanting Unreal 4 fan remake of the sport, Apeiron, in 2018.
Even when KOTOR by no means comes out, there are nonetheless loads of different Star Wars video games in improvement, from Respawn’s Jedi Survivor to Skydance’s cinematic action-adventure, and, erm, Quantic Dream’s Excessive Republic recreation. We’ll let you already know if there are any additional developments. Could the Drive be with you.