'Star Wars' Video Games Canon With Movies, Comics, TV Shows - 'Story Group' Dictating All Stories Across Multiple Platforms
The Star Wars Expanded Universe has pretty much been wiped out by Disney's takeover of Lucasfilm, and this week we learned that the Star Wars Story Group will ensure that all future video games about the galaxy far, far away will remain canon with the Disney's storylines. Many gaming websites and news sources are a bit worried about this news - so should you be?
Ongoing Expanded Universe projects, like Star Wars: The Old Republic, will not be folded into the glorious new canon, Lucasfilm confirmed. The new canon will begin its expansion with upcoming novels and a new animated series, but later on DICE's Battlefront and the mysterious Star Wars project at Visceral Games will contribute their mite.
When gamers think of the "best" Star Wars video games, the Expanded Universe is the main backdrop to them, with the canon of the movies being very distant. So does that mean that future games will essentially be bad? Not exactly.
We'll definitely have to wait and see, but the money behind future games will be impressive because Disney would want to have its hands in all projects. So games staying within the canon should have plenty of support. This might mean some creative constraints, but who knows!
Basically we should keep an open mind for now and only worry when we see some footage and/or reviews.
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(via VG247 / Gamma Squad / Gamespot)