LucasArts, BioWare collaborating on...something

40 Comments by Jason Dobson Oct 30th 2007 9:40AM
Filed under: Business

With the dust only just now beginning to settle from Mass Effect developer BioWare's acquisition by industry powerhouse Electronic Arts, many of us believed that it would be some time before we got wind of the company's next project. It would seem, however, that we were wrong, as both BioWare and LucasArts issued a joint statement today announcing that the studios are working together on "an interactive entertainment product," stopping just shy of cluing us in on just what it is exactly that they are building behind the curtain.

The two bedfellows, which have previously worked together on KOTOR, revealed next to nothing about the new project, stating only that it will "deliver an experience that will span the traditional boundaries of video game entertainment." So, is this project the oft-rumored Knights of the Old Republic MMO, or something else entirely? The wheels of speculation are turning.

Tags: Bioware, BreakingNews, KOTOR, Lucasarts, Mass-Effect, MassEffect, mystery

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CrazySteve88: Oct 30th 2007; 9:46AM

It's obviously the MMO. You would have to be stupid not to see it.

Jerk Face: Oct 30th 2007; 12:07PM

I know, what a bunch of bull. Right? It's so obvious.

Sedeas: Oct 30th 2007; 9:53AM

Or Cynical. Saying there might be a worthwhile Star Was MMO coming from a premier dev studio is akin to hearing an abusive husband promise to stop losing his temper.

JimJimBinks: Oct 30th 2007; 9:59AM

I just came very close to spitting diet coke onto my monitor.
Thanks!
I'm really hoping for that MMO. Please don't let me down!

2kings: Oct 30th 2007; 9:53AM

monkey island mmo!

Chris: Oct 30th 2007; 3:28PM

I hope I hope I hope I hope I hope.....

rom: Oct 30th 2007; 9:54AM

It's obviously a MMO based on "Howard the Duck"...

....Obviously

I, for one, cant wait.

Jason D: Oct 30th 2007; 9:57AM

Now I have that theme song stuck in my head...thanks.

stu: Oct 30th 2007; 10:08AM

somehow he found a way into my heart

JJ: Oct 30th 2007; 9:57AM

Well if it IS another Star WArs MMO... hears to hoping that LucasArts doesnt authorize another NGE!

But given how thew current LA/SOE MMO is.. i can imagine htis will just be another jedi filled mess.

Dont get me wrong i love KOTOR and ot a lesser extent Jade empire... but i dont know how well those would hold up as MMOs.

But hey, here's to hoping i'm wrong on that account if it IS true

Tim: Oct 30th 2007; 10:06AM

Lucasarts didn't 'authorize' the NGE....they were the ones that pushed it in the first place. SOE gets the constant negative rap for it but LA was the driving force behind it, not SOE.

JJ: Oct 30th 2007; 10:08AM

oh i know that Tim, i'm just saying. I only partly blame SoE for that... iknow any and everything that went in or out of the game can be laid squarely at LA's feet. After all when it comes to the SW license what they say goes...even if it is unadulterated crap.

rv: Oct 30th 2007; 11:33AM

I don't know if it will not be a jedi filled mess. The main point of kotor is to play as a jedi, however there can't be 500,000 jedi running around in the star wars universe. That makes no sense.
I would much rather the game be kotor 3 then an mmo, but it doesn't look that way.

F. Rocker or Fernando R.?: Oct 30th 2007; 9:58AM

A lightsaber game for the Wii. (Not Lego Star Wars or Force Unleashed)

Kazi: Oct 30th 2007; 10:00AM

I beg you Bioware, don't give into the evil MMO business.

Gangsta Smurf: Oct 30th 2007; 10:25AM

OBJECTION!

lord hobo: Oct 30th 2007; 10:01AM

Kotor 3 plox

Markusdragon: Oct 30th 2007; 10:02AM

Monkey Island RPG.

(If only!)

Jonah Falcon: Oct 30th 2007; 10:08AM

Fooled you! It's a Jade Empire MMO!

WiNG: Oct 30th 2007; 10:16AM

Yes FINALLY we get out Monkey Island MMO.

I can't wait to see how they implement PvP. I've been working in my insults!

hvnlysoldr: Oct 30th 2007; 10:18AM

Stay on target! (Sonic RPG better be good)

tallimar: Oct 30th 2007; 10:41AM

@kazi
a little late on that. they already have a texas-based studio designated to make an MMO.

Sir SpankalotUK: Oct 30th 2007; 10:48AM

Ewoks MMO FTW!!

ThornedVenom: Oct 30th 2007; 1:41PM

Damn furries and pedos ruining ewok MMOs!

coast19: Oct 30th 2007; 11:15AM

When they said this "deliver an experience that will span the traditional boundaries of video game entertainment." It seems more like a epic game for Wii with 1.1 light saber sickness!

Jeff: Oct 30th 2007; 11:16AM

As a gamer, I want nothing more than this a Star Wars MMO by bioware.

As someone hoping to do well in college next year, and eventually have a future, a family, and kids... please don't make this. Please. I beg you.

Batzarro: Oct 30th 2007; 11:31AM

This could go either way:
KOTOR 3-X360
Star Wars: Twilek Dance Off-Wii/DS
Star Wars:MMO-PC...slim chance of 360

Jonah Falcon: Oct 30th 2007; 12:40PM

EA allowing a single console version of KOTOR3? (laughs)

Batzarro: Oct 30th 2007; 3:02PM

Johna Falcon: Your laughter may be recorded for "I-told-you-so" purposes.

For what it's worth, It'll probably be the MMO for PC, because developers seem to enjoy NOT making MMO's for consoles. Besides...who said anything about EA publishing?(read...if a deal or contract was made before the aquisition...etc.)

TheCassidy: Oct 30th 2007; 12:08PM

It's obviously the KOTOR MMO, but a fella can dream, right?

An action-RPG in the Indiana Jones universe would be awesome. You reading this, Uncle George?

Crosswayboy: Oct 30th 2007; 12:34PM

Wait, isn't Bioware working on a trilogy for Bioshock? How will they be able to devote enough time to both projects without dropping the ball on either?

Crosswayboy: Oct 30th 2007; 12:35PM

Fuck, I meant Mass Effect... damn Bio this and Bio that...

Dale: Oct 30th 2007; 1:45PM

I heard they were working on a Biodome MMORPG.

I can see it now...

P4ULYSHORE00013423423: hey buuuuuuuuudy. lol

DerBats: Oct 30th 2007; 1:49PM

I can only hope this is a good Star Wars MMO...What SWG should have been.

And for the love of god, please put jumping into the freaking game.

bhuddamonk: Oct 30th 2007; 2:00PM

I live here in Austin and know some people in the game industry circles. From the hints that have been dropped , It's definitely a Star Wars MMO. They are going to hopefully kill SW Galaxies (thank god) and make the game the way it shouldve been made.

Too: Oct 30th 2007; 2:28PM

May the force be with them...

cthulhu: Oct 30th 2007; 2:38PM

my money is on a willow MMO. WOW is goin down

Mythor: Oct 30th 2007; 11:28PM

Didn't Bioware develop the Mass Effect and Dragon Age IP so that they wouldn't have to be bound by the strictures of someone else's IP ever again?
Was that a lie? Or did a big truck full of Lucasmoney remind them why it was a dumb idea in the first place?

Alcevious: Oct 31st 2007; 1:24AM

Grim Fandango MMO. Make it happen.

Evil Cyborg 10: Jan 10th 2008; 1:46PM

I'm hoping for Kotor 3 but on the Bioware website it says there working on
Dragon Age
A MMO
Sonic ds :D
New next gen game
Lucasarts and bioware agreement.

Sounds like there doing everything!

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