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New Star Wars games inspired by Batman's Arkham series
When Disney bought the rights to Star Wars from George Lucas, that spelled the end of veteran games developer Lucasarts. Instead it was EA that stepped in as the sole developer of games set in that galaxy far, far away.What wasn't clear was what form those games would take. It's been confirmed that Battlefield developer DICE is working on the multiplayer shooter Battlefront, but beyond that the future of Star Wars games has been murky.Now EA boss Andrew Wilson has pierced the veil of the Dark Side and revealed his plans to CNN - and it seems that the Batman: Arkham series is the model they're looking at. "What Warner Bros. did with Batman was take the core roots of that IP and manifest that inside the walls of Gotham City and delivered an interactive experience that had real ties to what you would see in the films and what you had read in the comics," Wilson said. "When we look at the Star Wars properties that's how we're looking at it."In a cute coincidence, the role of The Joker in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City was played by Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill.What we won't be seeing, apparently, is any games based on the upcoming new Star Wars trilogy due to reach cinemas next year. "We're not trying to build a game that replicates the storyline of any particular film," insisted Wilson.
Telltale's Game of Thrones will not be a prequel
Adventure game specialist Telltale is very busy at the moment. Not content with the ongoing episodic series The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, the developer is also working on a spin-off adventure game based on the Gearbox co-op shooter Borderlands, and another title based on hit gore-soaked fantasy Game of Thrones.It's the latter title that has had people speculating, as it was unclear how the game would fit into the seemingly fixed narratives laid down in George R. R. Martin's novels and HBO's award-winning TV series. The answer: they won't. Rather than trying to squeeze new stories with the same characters into the saga, we'll get to explore concurrent events elsewhere in Westeros."It's not a prequel," Telltale CEO Dan Connors has told Digital Trends. "I think the show provides a timeline, but the world is huge. There's so much going on and it's so rich. Every decision that King Joffrey makes impacts so many people. Any microcosm in that world [looking at how] people are affected by the decisions that are made plays out across the whole thing."The show does a great job of interpreting George R.R. Martin's work, and his work provides a huge dictionary of knowledge about what the franchise is. It's really a dream to sit down and say, 'What's our space in this world? Where are we in this world?' And the world offers you so much to explore."Telltale's Game of Thrones is due to launch later this year.
