Back in 2021, a PlayStation showcaseannounced that Aspyr was developing the often-rumored remake ofStar Wars:Knights Of The Old Republic.Sadly, that was pretty much the last positive piece of news we got out of that project — up until now.
In 2022, we learned that parent company Embracer Group haddropped Aspyras the developer and chosen its own Saber Interactive as the replacement. A studio swap is usually troubling news, but the apparent writing on the wall came onlythree days agowhen Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb said that “this game is not being worked on right now.”
Luckily, however, it seems like the rumors of theKOTORremake’s death could have been exaggerated. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier hastweetedthat while he doesn’t know whether or not the game will ever come out, he reports from two sources at Saber Interactive that they are still working on it.
Embracer has yet to comment on the matter, so we still don’t know the company’s current plans for the remake. When asked about it during a recent Embracer financial presentation, CEO Lars Wingefors declined to provide a comment, saying “I notice anything I say to this becomes a headline, so that is my only comment.”
We might not learn much for a while, considering howEmbracer is going through a troubled period. Volition wasshut down, Free Radical reportedlyfaces closure, and its layoffs in just one quarter havereached titanic proportions.
The situation sucks, for developers and players. People who’ve played the original upon release and the many more who got to experience it in the two decades that have since passed would likely love to revisitKnights of the Old Republicin a remake. But whether that will ever actually happen or not remains unclear.
