Game news Star Wars KOTOR Remake: development once more upset, we will have to be patient
Posted on 08/18/2022 at 2:41 pm
When it was announced, the remake of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic wowed more than one, and for good reason: the original RPG has a big reputation and its redesign on PS5 has something to seduce. Only then, the development seems to have been entrusted to someone else.
A complicated design
Last month already, The news was not really good : the very serious Bloomberg site affirmed, following investigation, that the development of Star Wars KOTOR Remake had been paused following internal disagreements at Aspyr and even the dismissal of two directors. Saber Interactive, which had been announced as reinforcements a few months ago, might even have taken over the project entirely.
This week, it is the giant embrace group (which has also announced today redeem the Lord of the Ringsby the way) which visibly adds its grain of salt through a declaration: without mentioning the name of the game concerned, the firm confirmed that ‘one of the band’s AAA projects has moved to another company studio’. Inevitably, the first game we think is Wars Knights of the Old Republic.
A probably distant exit
If this remake only planned on PS5 and PC is published by Sony and Lucasfilm, Embracer Group nonetheless remains a key player and for good reason: Aspyr and Saber Interactive are both studios that belong to it. Considering the differences within Aspyr and the noise in the hallway regarding a takeover by Saber Interactive on the construction site, we are entitled to wonder if the latter is not the one Embracer Group is talking regarding and who inherited the entire project.
As a reminder, Saber Interactive is an American studio founded in 2021, acquired by Embracer Group in 2020 for the sum of 525 million dollars. The designers have worked on many switch portes such as those of World War Z, The Witcher 3, Vampire or Call of Cthulhu. They also supported other studios on projects like Evil Dead The Game, Crysis Remastered or soon Warhammer 40.000 Space Marines 2.
