Fri, Apr 09, 2010 | 08:44 BST
Rumour – Star Wars: Battlefront Online canceled
Remember Star Wars: Battlefront Online? The multiplayer-only title apparently in development at SOCOM: Confrontation devs Slant Six? It’s no more, apparently.
Sources have told Kotaku the project was canned after LucasArts realized that it had too many Star Wars games due for 2011, which Battlefront Online was aiming for. When it became clear it wouldn’t make 2010, the firm canceled development, with S6 laying off staff because of it.
The studio’s managing director Brian Thalken has confirmed to Gamespot recently that staff were laid off. but did say he was looking to bring back “as many of these staff members as possible”.
Battlefront Online was seen at the time as the phoenix that rose out of the ashes that was Battlefront III from Free Radical, now Crytek UK.
But we guess that’s all she wrote on that chapter, then.
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Posted in: Action, Lucasarts, PS3, Rumour, Xbox 360
Tags: Slant Six Studios, Star Wars: Battlefront Online
16 comments
#1
f1r3storm
09/04/10, 8:46 am
Didn’t think it could be so hard to make another sequel to one of the most successful Star Wars games.
#2
Blerk
09/04/10, 8:50 am
The curse strikes again!
#3
mojo
09/04/10, 8:51 am
boah i cant tell u how fukcing pissed i am right now..
Bring FUCKING BATTLEFRONT. srsly Lucas is bollocks!
#4
mington
09/04/10, 8:53 am
it would’ve probably been full of prequel shit anyways
Mass effect: Battlefront
(thinking about it…that could actually work)
#5
Gekidami
09/04/10, 9:19 am
“it would’ve probably been shit anyways”
Fixed. With S6 behind the wheel, i doubt anything good would have came out of it.
This pretty much confirms that we wont be seeing any BattleFront games for ages. 2012? 2013? The world would have ended, right?
#6
NGCes26294BIV
09/04/10, 9:30 am
SOCOM was shit, so no surprise here.
When will publisher’s realise that shit devs will most likely make shit games.
It’s the same in the movie industry – shit directors generally make shit films.
And yet people are surprised when they turn out crap?
#7
Gekidami
09/04/10, 9:42 am
They turn to devs like S6 when they just want to release a known IP without working on it themselves. The devs never make an original IP, they’re always just hired to make whatever a publisher wants them to do.
Unfortunately for them, these types of devs really have it hard these days. And with Zipper making the next Socom themselves i assume S6 dont have anything going right now. No doubt they’ll be going out of business just like Grin who also made other publishers games.
#8
frostquake
09/04/10, 10:40 am
Trying not to curse…ah..um…well..hmmmmm..loosing control of vocal bowels..
YOU MOTHERFUCKING SHEEP BALL LICKING BIRD SHIT EATING ZEBRA ASS POKING TINY DICK WAVING HAIRLESS MONKEY SPANKING NUTS, BRING OUT BATTLEFRONT III Already….
I WANT BATTLEFRONT III on this Gen Console and BATTLEFRONT IV on the next one…I have never licked a guys balls, might just piss off the Wife…BUT WHOSE BALLS DO I HAVE TO LICK TO GET THIS DAMN GAME MADE???
SHEESH!!!
#9
mojo
09/04/10, 10:45 am
8: i second that.
#10
mington
09/04/10, 11:05 am
Robert Patterson. I’d like totally lick his balls
#11
mington
09/04/10, 11:09 am
then i’d give him a good rimming
this websites needs more homoeroticism
why are we licking balls again?
#12
daytripper
09/04/10, 11:11 am
a series with massive potential, i just dont understand why a battlefront game this generation couldnt be made, strange and very frustrating. sod it i’ll make it, i’ll post paypal donation details later.
#13
AHA-Lambda
09/04/10, 11:18 am
It couldn’t have made 2010 or 2011? Why not keep it then until you could release it? Surely for the year 2012 then relatively speaking their expenditure would be down as the game was made years ago. Why can’t they just sit on it or am I missing something obvious?
#14
daytripper
09/04/10, 11:24 am
lucasarts have been one of the biggest letdowns this generation
#15
mojo
09/04/10, 11:34 am
yes, absolutely.
#16
Droid
09/04/10, 11:48 am
@14 Agreed but there are many to try take that crown.