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January 29th, 2010, 05:20
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/500x_bfrontiv.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/bfrontiv.jpg)Star Wars (http://kotaku.com/tag/starwars/): Battlefront III may have been binned (http://kotaku.com/5132905/heres-star-wars-battlefront-iiis-sith-kenobi), but we've heard from sources that the series lives on, in the form of currently-in-pre-production Battlefront Online.
The game, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, is currently being worked on by both Lucasarts and Slant Six Games (http://kotaku.com/tag/slantsixgames/), the studio responsible for SOCOM Confrontation and SOCOM Fire Team Bravo 3.
The title is still in pre-production, so there's no guarantee that we'll ever hear more of it – Battlefront having become somewhat of a cursed property after the recent demise of original developers Pandemic (http://kotaku.com/5406830/confirmed-ea-closes-pandemic-studios-says-brand-will-live-on) and buy-out of BFIII developers Free Radical (http://kotaku.com/5145829/crytek-buys-free-radical) – but Lucasarts' insistence on getting a Battlefront game made in spite of all that gives us hope. A...New Hope, even (sorry).
Battlefront Online is, as the name suggests, planned to be online-only, and is tentatively slated to appear in 2011.
Whether this game was the source of that "Battlefront IV" concept art that turned up last year is unknown (http://kotaku.com/5350568/rumored-star-wars-battlefront-iv-concept-art-leaks), but our sources tell us that it is the source of those voice actor rumours from December (http://www.battlefront3.net/2009/12/battlefront-3-is-in-development-says-battlefront-3-actor/).
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The game, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, is currently being worked on by both Lucasarts and Slant Six Games (http://kotaku.com/tag/slantsixgames/), the studio responsible for SOCOM Confrontation and SOCOM Fire Team Bravo 3.
The title is still in pre-production, so there's no guarantee that we'll ever hear more of it – Battlefront having become somewhat of a cursed property after the recent demise of original developers Pandemic (http://kotaku.com/5406830/confirmed-ea-closes-pandemic-studios-says-brand-will-live-on) and buy-out of BFIII developers Free Radical (http://kotaku.com/5145829/crytek-buys-free-radical) – but Lucasarts' insistence on getting a Battlefront game made in spite of all that gives us hope. A...New Hope, even (sorry).
Battlefront Online is, as the name suggests, planned to be online-only, and is tentatively slated to appear in 2011.
Whether this game was the source of that "Battlefront IV" concept art that turned up last year is unknown (http://kotaku.com/5350568/rumored-star-wars-battlefront-iv-concept-art-leaks), but our sources tell us that it is the source of those voice actor rumours from December (http://www.battlefront3.net/2009/12/battlefront-3-is-in-development-says-battlefront-3-actor/).
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