First reported by Insider Gaming, quiet mega-publisher the Embracer Group just lately launched its full yr report for April 2022-March 2023, and that report lists the now legendarily fraught Star Wars: Knight of the Previous Republic Remake as a undertaking below energetic growth within the subhead “Introduced PC/Console Releases as of Could 24, 2023.”
The knowledge within the report is sparse, however telling sufficient in its personal approach. The KotOR Remake is listed as coming to each PS5 and PC, hopefully that means no console exclusivity, timed or in any other case. The sport’s “exterior” publishing companion is sort of assuredly Sony Interactive Leisure, which has a credit score within the recreation’s sole trailer and explains why the sport is just not slated for Xbox consoles.
The sport’s developer stays an as-of-yet unspecified “inside” studio, that means it could possibly be any one of many Embracer Group’s numerous subsidiaries, however prior reporting from Bloomberg means that growth has moved to Saber Interactive, the mum or dad firm of the undertaking’s unique developer, Aspyr.
Aspyr had made a reputation for itself lately by porting varied basic Star Wars video games to Steam, cell, and trendy consoles. Aspyr was reportedly taken off the KotOR Remake undertaking final summer time, supposedly after an preliminary vertical slice demo didn’t impress studio bosses. A deliberate 2022 launch was out of the query, with 2025 wanting extra real looking in keeping with Bloomberg’s sources. Growth modified arms and was probably rebooted, and the final official phrase on the KotOR Remake (outdoors Embracer earnings experiences) stays its September 2021 PlayStation showcase trailer.
This point out of KotOR from the Embracer Group is, at the least, somewhat encouraging—a small signal of life from the troubled undertaking. Nonetheless, like with Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, it is in all probability greatest to undertake a “come what could” perspective. If both recreation ever arrives, it will in all probability take awhile.
