Ubisoft’s Star Wars title might not be positioned in a galaxy far, far, away. In truth, it could possibly be touring across the Milky Method as we communicate.
In different phrases, the sport is not too far off from launch, based on sources talking with Kotaku.
Ubisoft famous in its newest presentation to buyers that its 2023-24 line-up would come with new releases throughout huge manufacturers and long-lasting Reside video games (slide 14).
These embody Murderer’s Creed Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Rainbow Six Cell, Cranium and Bones, The Crew Motorfest, The Division Resurgence, XDefiant, and “one other giant recreation”.
In keeping with Kotaku’s sources, the Star Wars title is the “giant recreation” by which Ubisoft speaks.
Announced in 2021, Undertaking Helix, because it’s identified, is an open-world title in growth with The Division maker Ubisoft Large. Per Kotaku’s sources, the sport has not been “progressing properly” and regardless of the corporate’s ambition to launch the Star Wars recreation through the present fiscal 12 months, it almost definitely won’t occur.
This implies the sport will seemingly launch through the firm’s subsequent fiscal 12 months, beginning in April 2024 and working by March 2025. That will nonetheless put it in a 2024 launch window – if it does not slip previous Christmas and into March 2025. You simply by no means know.
Final 12 months, Ubisoft was on the lookout for people positioned in Malmo, Sweden, or those that lived shut by, to playtest the Star Wars title. Aside from that, and the preliminary announcement, no additional data has been offered on the title.
That will change subsequent month when the corporate hosts certainly one of its Ubisoft Forward streams on June 12. Extra data on the showcase is predicted main as much as the occasion.