DICE has high hopes for Star Wars Battlefront with general manager Karl-Magnus Troedsson telling MCV that "we are going to build the best Star Wars game ever created."
Troedsson noted that while the Mirror's Edge developer doesn't usually deal with IPs they don't own, everyone at the studio was eager to work on the game.
"Star Wars has a very special place in our hearts. So when the chance to work on this game came up, we grabbed it. But that comes with a different kind of dependency that we haven’t had for a long time as we’re working with someone else’s IP. But LucasFilm has been absolutely spectacular. Everyone is approaching this with the same idea – that we are going to create the best Star Wars game ever."
He says that DICE still wants Battlefield to be the "preferred choice" for first person shooters but that doesn't mean the developer won't be putting everything into Battlefront.
"When we approach something like Battlefront there’s only one way for us to think about it and that’s: we are going to build the best Star Wars game ever created, if nothing else because Star Wars deserves it."
EA recently said that while Battlefront is not "necessarily linked" to Star Wars Episode VII, the company "would like" to launch close to the movie which would place the game's release window in late 2015.
Obsidian has also expressed an interest in Star Wars, specifically in returning to the Knights of the Old Republic franchise. Speaking to IGN, the studio's Josh Sawyer said that LucasArts – the game production wing of LucasFilm which Disney shuttered last year – was only interested in blockbusters and that while Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords was "pretty successful" a sequel just wasn't on the cards.
However, Sawyer says "I think there are a lot of the people at the studio that would like to do Knights of the Old Republic 3.A lot of time has passed. I know there are a lot of people at the studio who are really interested in doing a project like that."
Obsidian's Brandon Adler added "It’s something that comes up every three to six months, We bring it up and talk about it. Not anything terribly serious, but we just say ‘wouldn’t it be cool if?’ and just develop some ideas for what we’d do with that stuff."
BioWare, who developed the first Knights of the Old Republic and owns the IP, has been quiet on the franchise for years and the release of MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic in late 2011 was taken by many to signify the end of the series.
The fact that Disney has also judged all Star Wars games to be non-canon and signed a multi-year, multi-game deal with BioWare owner EA suggests it would be difficult for Obsidian to get another shot at the franchise.
