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Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:50 am**

Here's something interesting I just found. Recently Lucasarts dumped 'hundreds' of staff, and one disgruntled ex-employee decided to spill the beans on games they have in the works. Obviously since the guy has just lost his job, this can't be taken as fact, but it's one more reason why a Battlefront III really could come along within the next few years.

http://kotaku.com/5013769/rumor-ex+luca ... saber-game

Most interestingly, however, is the information they provide on how the layoffs leave the company severely short-staffed as they approach a packed development schedule, one which it appears may be increasingly outsourced. Some of the titles they report Lucasarts apparently have in this stacked pipeline, whether as publisher or developer, include:

- KOTOR 3 (An MMO, and a joint project between Lucasarts and BioWare)
- Battlefront 3
- "The Official Indiana Jones" game (probably this one)
- "another LEGO game based on the Indy universe"
- "a lightsaber game for the wii (sorry, no lightsaber peripherals)"

Two games apparently far enough along to be unaffected by the sackings are The Force Unleashed (which they say has already "passed approval with SCEA and is ready to ship") and Fracture, which they say is described by team members as "an absolute piece of garbage".

KOTOR as an MMO will certainly be interesting. Could be very similar to Star Wars Galaxies. And Fracture is a piece of garbage? Uh oh, that game looked promising. Still, be sure to take all this with a grain of salt.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:17 am**

Interesting, very interesting.

For Fracture they might just still be mad at Lucas Arts and are trying to hurt them, so I'd wait.
KotOR 3 MMO sounds awesome. When Mass Effect was released i heard some people saying it'd use that engine atleast all hte VO parts.
Dang even closer to offical confirmation of BF3. maybe at E3.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:23 am**

I wouldn't know what to expect from a KotOR MMO. Gives me the same feeling as the 1st person Zelda rumor. I think I prefer the "old" style games but how can I tell when it isn't released yet

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:57 pm**

Interesting read, but http://kotaku.com isn't the most reliable source for anything gaming. On top of that, they're very opinionated, often criticizing games before they even come out.

Hate that site, but it was a nice read nonetheless.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:32 pm**

I hope KotOR MMO wouldn't cost money.

Edit: lol, other then just buying the game lol.

Posted: **Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:05 pm**

If KotOR 3 is really an MMO I hope that they make a single player mode for us dial-up cursed people.

Posted: **Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:12 am**

MMOs never have single-player, hence the name MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online)

I look forward to a KotOR MMO, sounds like a nice concept and if it is developed I will look into it

Posted: **Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:51 am**

Dial-up still exists? wow. Anyways yeah i don't want to pay for an MMO so that'd be the only reason why i wouldn't get the KotOR MMO.

Posted: **Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:00 pm**

Just to add to this, it seems Amazon has posted a confirmation of Battlefront III... for Wii and DS. Yup. It's just a rumour for now, but what's interesting is that Amazon has now taken the pages down. Something to hide, or just a mistake?

Battlefront III for Wii was here: http://www.amazon.com/Lucas-Arts-33563- ... 4&sr=1-443.

Battlefront III for DS was here: http://www.amazon.com/Lucas-Arts-33561- ... 836&sr=1-4.

As always, remember that it was just a rumour. Some guy on the Amazon staff probably thought it was funny to get people hyped up for no reason.

Here's a link to the story: http://gonintendo.com/?p=48807.

I don't own a 360 or PS3, but to be honest I'd prefer to see it on those platforms. Large scale Star Wars battles with beautiful graphics would be a lot more appealing to me than what the Wii would be able to provide. Then again, the Wii version might just be one of those PS3/360 ports that also comes out on PS2 with tacked-on motion controls.

Posted: **Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:15 pm**

Been mentioned already. Guess we gotta wait the week or two till E3 and find out if that's true.

Posted: **Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:10 pm**

DS and Wii? Maybe it was just a mix-up with the new Clone Wars game. (which is also on those two platforms)

Posted: **Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:14 pm**

I can understand Wii, but DS? Now come on, the writer had to be either a: lying or b: getting mixed up. And besides, why the heck would they drop PC and Xbox from the list? It sold the most on Xbox and second most on PC, didn't it?

Posted: **Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:33 pm**

http://wii.ign.com/articles/887/887594p1.html

Posted: **Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:39 pm**

IGN wrote:LucasArts is not expected to show Battlefront III at E3 2008.

Bummer

Posted: **Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:52 am**

Maybe it's just not far enough along? We can hope.

Posted: **Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:45 am**

Darth_Cow wrote:
IGN wrote:LucasArts is not expected to show Battlefront III at E3 2008.
Bummer

It's a Trap!!! LA is probably doing to side track and be like o hey guys yeah, it's here, check out this trailer. Coming 08. Or something like. If not it might be shown during TGS.

Posted: **Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:39 am**

Maybe they'll pull a steve jobs..."One more thing.."

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:22 pm**

Update: Activision-Blizzard, "distributor of LucasArts products in Australia," filed and recieved a rating for "Star Wars: Battlefront 3" on 2 October, by way of Australia's Classification Review Board.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4hTX5XUtzw
Original Source: http://www.classification.gov.au/specia ... ord=230327

Looks like a legitimate hint, although it doesn't say much more than that a future version of Battlefront, be it really "3" or some other iteration, is planned to be released on Nintendo DS. Interesting information, anyway.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:58 pm**

By all the things I've seen, I think battlefront 3 will be a game in the future. Somewhere I heard it may be an Xbox 360 exclusive due to something about free radical. I'm thinking it will be a star wars mix of CoD4, Halo 3, and Battlefront 2.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:01 pm**

This sounds awesome. I'm liking the sound of the DS version. I trust in Free radical even after the "failure" of Haze.

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