First reported by Insider Gaming, quiet mega-publisher the Embracer Group not too long ago launched its full 12 months 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 lively improvement within the subhead “Introduced PC/Console Releases as of Might 24, 2023.”
The data within the report is sparse, however telling sufficient in its personal means. The KotOR Remake is listed as coming to each PS5 and PC, hopefully which means no console exclusivity, timed or in any other case. The sport’s “exterior” publishing accomplice is nearly 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 “inner” studio, which means it could possibly be any one of many Embracer Group’s numerous subsidiaries, however prior reporting from Bloomberg means that improvement has moved to Saber Interactive, the father or mother firm of the undertaking’s authentic developer, Aspyr.
Aspyr had made a reputation for itself in recent times by porting numerous traditional Star Wars video games to Steam, cellular, and fashionable consoles. Aspyr was reportedly taken off the KotOR Remake undertaking final summer season, supposedly after an preliminary vertical slice demo did not impress studio bosses. A deliberate 2022 launch was out of the query, with 2025 trying extra life like based on Bloomberg’s sources. Growth modified palms and was probably rebooted, and the final official phrase on the KotOR Remake (exterior Embracer earnings stories) stays its September 2021 PlayStation showcase trailer.
This point out of KotOR from the Embracer Group is, a minimum of, a bit of 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.
