Sources: Ubisoft Open-World Star Wars Game May Be Sooner Than You Think

Star Wars takes spot successful a postulation far, acold away. But Ubisoft’s first video crippled adjustment of nan beloved sci-fi franchise could beryllium conscionable astir nan corner. Kotaku has learned nan French publisher’s open-world crippled is presently targeting a projected merchandise day successful early 2024 arsenic nan institution scrambles for a awesome triumph aft a twelvemonth of delays and projects trapped successful improvement hell.

The Assassin’s Creed shaper announced its largest operating nonaccomplishment successful history connected May 16, but promised investors a patient slate of large upcoming releases for nan upcoming fiscal twelvemonth which runs done March 2024. In summation to nan merchandise of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and nan perennially missing-in-action pirate blockbuster, Skull and Bones, Ubsioft said “another ample game” would besides merchandise wrong nan adjacent 12 months. According to sources acquainted pinch nan company’s plans, who wished to stay anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to press, that further crippled is Ubisoft’s open-world Star Wars game.

First revealed back successful early 2021, Project Helix arsenic it’s known internally is being developed pinch Massive arsenic nan lead studio. Best known for The Division 1 and 2 military loot shooters, imaginative head Julian Gerighty said astatine nan clip that nan Star Wars game would beryllium a large departure from that bid and “totally different” from nan sorts of games Massive had worked connected successful nan past.

Two sources show Kotaku that improvement connected Project Helix, which seems apt to see immoderate shape of interplanetary abstraction travel, hasn’t been progressing good and hopes are precocious internally that nan crippled could beryllium Ubisoft’s first non-Assassin’s Creed blockbuster deed successful immoderate time. But they besides opportunity nan company’s extremity to merchandise nan crippled wrong nan existent fiscal twelvemonth is astir apt excessively ambitious. They still expect it to yet gaffe to sometime successful nan pursuing fiscal twelvemonth (which runs from April 2024 done March 2025).

“We don’t remark connected rumors aliases speculation,” a spokesperson for Ubisoft said erstwhile asked to comment.

Delays and canceled games person near Ubisoft struggling to capable monolithic holes successful its merchandise pipeline. Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and Just Dance 2023 were its only awesome games past year, an unsustainable hit for a institution of astir 20,000 employees. Skull and Bones primitively went golden past autumn earlier going backmost to being indefinitely delayed, while Avatar was expected to travel retired past twelvemonth but was yet pushed into 2023. Assassin’s Creed Mirage, meanwhile, grew retired of an description for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla aft Ubisoft realized different awesome games successful improvement wouldn’t beryllium done anytime soon.

The institution is expected to uncover much specifications astir its upcoming merchandise schedule astatine its large summertime showcase connected June 12. Mobile and free-to-play spin-offs for Rainbow Six Siege and The Division are besides successful nan works, arsenic are a ton of caller Assassin’s Creed games. Amid hundreds of millions successful caller cost-cutting measures, Ubisoft said it would still pivot an further 800 developers to activity connected nan stealth action series.