Rumor: Pandemic to get Star Wars: Battlefront franchise back?

Posted Jan 17th 2009 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action

It's the weekend so we feel free to post up an article that is squarely in the rumor category. Once again this info comes from semi-reliable site Videogaming247.com who claims that their unnamed but supposedly reliable inside source claims the Star Wars: Battlefront game series is heading back to developer Pandemic, who created the first two games in the multiplayer oriented series for LucasArts in 2004 and 2005 before being bought by Electronic Arts.

While never officially announced by any of the parties involved, it's all but out there on the net that UK based Free Radical Design was set to make Star Wars: Battlefront III but for reasons that are still unclear they lost the rights to make that game. With Pandemic now owned by EA that means if the Battlefront franchise really does head back to Pandemic it will make the second such Star Wars game to be under development at an EA owned studio (BioWare is of course working on the MMO title Star Wars: The Old Republic).

Tags: bioware, ea, electronic-arts, free-radical-design, lucasarts, pandemic-studios, star-wars-battlefront-3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

The work free radical has already done for SWB 3 looks easily more impressive than anything we're seeing from pandemic through the new lotr game. I know these are two very different franchises but it keeps me from getting excited by any battlefront announcements talking about a developer other than free radical cause the stuff they leaked looks so good. Posted at 3:48PM on Jan 17th 2009 by ashaikh148

@ ashaikh

You don't seem to realize that SWB games were a Pandemic-owned franchise in first place. I'm sure they can pull it off. Posted at 6:39PM on Jan 17th 2009 by Sir Buzz Killington( The Artist formerly known as Jakka)