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A lot of folks thought we might get an official announcement of Star Wars Battlefront 3 at last night's Video Game Awards. But the action game sequel, still not officially announced by publisher LucasArts, might still be in play. Fan site Battlefront3.net claims they got an email from a casting director Chris Marazzo who told them, " . . . Battlefront 3 is also in development. It was by far the most fun and coolest casting I ever worked on."

The first two games in the Battlefront series, developed by the now shut down Pandemic Studios, were highly successful in terms of sales. Free Radical Design was supposedly working on Battlefront 3 but LucasArts is rumored to have pulled the game from the developer last year. The developer was close to shutting down before being acquired by Crytek.

It's Wednesday so that means its time for another game reveal teaser for the 2009 Spike TV Video Game Awards. As teaser trailers goes (and again this one is hosted by GameTrailers.com) this one is kind of . . . eh. It announces that there will be a new Star Wars game announcement at the show which takes place on December 12.

So what could it be? Maybe a sequel to The Force Unleashed which sold very well for publisher LucasArts? How about the long awaited Star Wars Battlefront 3? If we PC gamers cross our fingers maybe we will get a Jedi Knight sequel or possible a new Empire at War title. Or could it be something totally new? In the meantime you can check out the teaser after the jump:

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).

Last month UK based Free Radical Design announced that it was being put into bankruptcy and laying off about 75 percent of its team members. One of the projects that has been rumored to be in development was Star Wars Battlefront 3, a continuation of the multiplayer oriented action series from LucasArts.

Now a leaked ShakyCam trailer has hit YouTube that supposedly shows over 5 minutes of gameplay footage of Star Wars Battlefront 3. The footage, which supposedly comes from an alpha build of game shown during an internal meeting last November, is quite extensive (the video upload apparently happened 10 hours ago from a UK based resident).

There's both on-foot and vehicle gameplay shown in the trailer along with some story-based cut-scenes (heck there's even some Gungan and Ewok on-foot action). At the moment the footage appears to be the genuine article although we suspect it could be taken down at any moment. In the meantime rumors still are flying that Star Wars Battlefront 3 is still in development but at another UK studio, Rebellion.