Star Wars: KOTOR Remake Launch Date Probably Not Till 2025

Embracer Group formally offered Saber Interactive for $247 million at this time. Throughout an buyers name to announce this information, Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors hinted that Star Wars: KOTOR Remake, which is in improvement at Saber, can be unlikely to have a launch date earlier than 2025, and it might even be later than that earlier than we get the sport on PS5.

Star Wars: KOTOR Remake “wants some deep love and respect”

As a part of the deal to promote Saber Interactive, Embracer will maintain management over “a beforehand introduced AAA recreation based mostly on a serious license.” Whereas this recreation was not formally recognized, buyers concluded that it was Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic Remake, as reported by VGC.

When quizzed about whether or not the AAA recreation was anticipated to be launched within the subsequent 12 months, Wingefors mentioned: “No, I believe that type of recreation wants some deep love and respect, so with out giving full colour, I believe it’s a while left till that’s launched.” This implies the remake isn’t prone to be launched earlier than April 2025 on the earliest.

Saber Interactive has now been bought by Beacon Interactive, an organization managed by Saber’s co-founder Matthew Karch. As a part of the deal, a number of different studios have additionally moved to Beacon Interactive with Saber, together with New World Interactive, Slipgate, and 3D Realms. Nevertheless, a number of the studios that had been folded into the Saber publishing arm will stay at Embracer, together with 34 Massive Issues, 4A Video games, Aspyr, Demiurge, Tripwire, and Zen Studios.

In addition to the “beforehand introduced AAA recreation based mostly on a serious license,” 13 different video games at the moment in improvement will probably be retained by Embracer. These are:

The subsequent AAA recreation from 4A Video games

An unannounced idea section AAA recreation

A brand new AAA multiplayer shooter based mostly on a managed IP

A brand new AA recreation based mostly on an Asmodee IP

A brand new AA recreation from 34 Massive Issues based mostly on an owned IP

Killing Ground 3

Teardown (ongoing improvement)

The total upcoming pipeline and again catalog from Zen Studios, Aspyr, and Tripwire