Amid records losses and a raft of cancelled games, Ubisoft is reportedly aiming to release Massive Entertainment’s long-awaited open-world Star Wars game in “early 2024”.
Announced back in 2021, little is known about The Division developer Massive Entertainment’s open-world Star Wars game, beyond the fact it’s being helmed by The Division 2 director Julian Gerighty and will utilise the studio’s Snowdrop engine.
With so little information currently out in the wild, many had assumed Massive’s Star Wars project was still some considerable way off, but Kotaku is now reporting the title is, in fact, the mysterious “another large game” Ubisoft has previously confirmed to be launching during its 2023-24 fiscal year, with the publisher said to be targeting an “early 2024” launch.
However, Kotaku’s sources suggest Ubisoft’s release plans for the Star Wars game – internally known as Project Helix – might be overly ambitious. The game, which is said to include interplanetary space travel, reportedly “hasn’t been progressing well”, and Kotaku’s sources expect it to slip into the next financial year, running from April 2024 to March 2025.