And because of Lucasfilm's new strategy, any developer can now potentially helm projects based on any Star Wars or Lucasfilm-related property, so this has our imaginations running wilder than ever before.
Naturally, all of this got us thinking about Star Wars games that we've always dreamed of being made. All this echoes how Marvel's games division approached making games based on its IP, where there was a greater emphasis on matching the right developer with the right property instead of handing off the entire catalog to one company. A shift in strategy like this now makes it open season for just about any notable developer in the industry to work with Lucasfilm properties. With Star Wars and other Lucasfilm properties handed off to competing publishers and developers, it seems like EA will no longer have exclusive rights to the property's gaming-related projects. On the other hand, Ubisoft even confirmed that it's making an open-world Star Wars game, which is all the more surprising, given Star Wars titles have been predominantly developed by Lucasfilm's longtime video game collaborator Electronic Arts for the last few years.
We already got a glimpse of what this new strategy is with the reveal of a new Indiana Jones game by Bethesda's studio MachineGames. Since Lucasfilm announced that all video games based on its properties will now live under the “Lucasfilm Games” umbrella, a new age has begun for the company's video games ambitions.
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