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By Emily Gera, Variety
Electronic Arts will release the next games in the “Star Wars” and “Titanfall” franchise in Fall 2019, the company announced during its Q3 Financial call on Tuesday.
“Respawn also plans to launch a premium game this year that is a
new twist on the Titanfall universe. More to come on that in the months
ahead,” Electronic Arts’
head Andrew Wilson said in the earnings call. Respawn’s popular “Apex
Legends” free-to-play battle royale game won’t be the end of the
Titanfall series, and EA is teasing more “experiences” set in the same
sci-fi universe.
EA’s next Star Wars
game will be called Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. The company had
previously looked to 2019 as a broad release window for its
story-centered game, which is in currently in development with EA-owned
studio and Titanfall creator Respawn Entertainment.
Wilson
said he played a 20 minute demo of “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’ last
week. “It is exceptional in terms of its level of polish depth and
living inside of the star wars world as a Jedi,” he says. Still, little
is known about the upcoming Star Wars title other than that it will be a
third-person, single-player action game, and will be considered canon
in the Star Wars universe.
Describing their early misses in the
marketing of “Titanfall 2,” EA CFO Blake Jorgensen states “I think we
failed to come to a true creative center for the campaign.”
“We had lost ground against our competitors.”
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