Read the original article on Tech Insider. Currently, EA has the license to develop games based on 'Star Wars,' which explains the release of 'Star Wars Battlefront' in 2015 (an EA game).

three years before joining the narrative design team on LucasArtss Star Wars: 1313. While far from impossible, we're not getting our hopes up either, '1313' may have looked impressive at the time, but taking two full years off of developing a game makes it near impossible to continue development. The Art of Solo: A Star Wars Story reveals, for the first time. We definitely want to.'Īnd thus, fans are hoping for a revival of 'Star Wars 1313.' And it’s something we’re spending a lot of time looking at, pouring through, discussing, and we may very well develop those things further. Recently, in an interview with /film, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said of 'Star Wars 1313's' concept art: 'We don’t want to throw any of that stuff away. 'Nearly all of the unit's roughly 200 employees were laid off,' the Wall Street Journal reported at the time. This was following a very large slate of mediocre to outright failed products, including a TRON: Legacy tie. The vast majority of the staff working on 'Star Wars 1313' were laid off alongside the closure of the LucasArts video game unit. Leading up to Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm, they were already steadily shutting down all of their own internal game development efforts. Nevertheless, the game remains a popular source of bitterness among fans, especially since Electronic Arts assumed sole control of the Star Wars video game license.Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy with 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' director J.J. RELATED: Star Wars: Terminator Star Confirmed for Mandalorian, Bill Burr to Return After Disney finally shut down LucasArts in April 2013, Star Wars 1313 was officially canceled. Star Wars 1313 suffered from a number of setbacks during development, and these problems were exacerbated upon Disney buying the franchise. Theres no word whether this change would have necessitated a massive overhaul for the game or if the general story and structure of. Set on the planet of Coruscant, the game would have tied into the also-canceled Star Wars Underground series and centered on a young Boba Fett dealing with Coruscant's criminal underground, also known as 'Level 1313.' The gameplay would have been similar to the Uncharted series, featuring third-person shooting mechanics and platforming. The demo showed gave a look at a potentially-thrilling action-adventure game with a focus on an original story. Star Wars 1313 was a video game in development by LucasArts in the years leading up to Disney purchasing Lucasfilm.

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