Video Game News: EA cancels upcoming Open-World Star Wars game

Fans of the Star Wars franchise will certainly be disappointed to hear the latest news regarding EA's next title. A report by Kotaku has revealed that the company's upcoming Star Wars project has been canceled.

Electronic Arts announced a new open-world Star Wars game back in 2017 after the closure of Visceral Games. The title would be developed in their Vancouver office. Prior to its closure, Visceral had been working on a game under the code name "Ragtag." Apparently, it would allow the player to take control of a group of smugglers traveling through space.

Afterward, EA took over, the title, and though they never gave the public much of an inside look, hype continued to build. Sadly, it seems that nothing would come of that, as the game has been officially canned.

It's unknown exactly what caused EA to drop the title, but according to Kotaku, it's possible they could be moving onto another Star Wars game. It's possible that the title they'd been working on may have just been handled by too many hands, and they needed to scrap it and start all over. It happens all the time in the gaming industry.

EA's prior two Star Wars games have sold incredibly well. When rebooting the Battlefront series in 2015, they hoped to sell 13 million copies by March 2016 and managed to make their goal by the beginning of 2016. Even though GameStop president Tony Bartel had claimed the game had sold fewer copies than expected in 2015, it was clearly a huge success.

Star Wars Battlefront II didn't do quite as well, however. Though it managed to sell nearly 40,000 copies in its first week in Japan on PlayStation 4 and was able to sell 9 million copies before the end of 2017, EA considered it a failure as it didn't meet the goal of selling 10 million by the end of that year. Still, 22 million copies sold between the two titles is pretty impressive, so the company clearly knows that there's money to be made in this franchise.

Don't be surprised to see a new title announced within the next two years.