We start this week’s show off with some chat about recent tweets signaling an end to Episode IX’s filming, a discussion of the just-announced Galaxy’s Edge books coming later this year, and a voicemail from The Rural Farmboy (@aRuralFarmboy). The rest of the show is devoted to an in-depth look at Electronic Arts’s exclusive deal for publishing Star Wars games. We run through the history of EA’s Star Wars releases (and cancellations) and lament the unreleased games and missed opportunities (seriously, no Nintendo Switch games?) that are part of the EA-era.
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Episode IX Updates
- John Boyega’s Recent Episode IX Tweet
- Anthony Daniels Done On Episode IX
- Brian Herring Done On Episode IX
Galaxy’s Edge
The EA Star Wars Saga
- EA’s Exclusive Deal Announcement (2013)
- The Future of EA Star Wars Games (2016)
- An Update on the Visceral Star Wars Project (2017)
- The Collapse of Visceral’s Ambitious Star Wars Game (2017)
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 Ditches Real-Money Currency Hours Before Launch (2017)
- EA Is Putting Microtransactions Back Into Star Wars Battlefront II, But They’ll Be Cosmetic-Only (2018)
- EA Cancels Its Star Wars Open-World Game (2019)
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