Electronic Arts Plans EA Play Presentation Before E3, Will Most Likely Feature Star Wars.

EA is choosing to skip out on having a panel at E3 this year in favor of holding their own presentation. While the presence of the Star Wars Battlefront sequel is practically assured at this point (since the game is currently set to drop at the end of this year), could the panel be the first place where we’ll get to hear about the long-gestating Uncharted-like Visceral Games title?

 

 

From VG 24/7:

Last year, EA eschewed E3’s booming show floor to instead host a separate event next door to the LA Convention Centre—where the main event takes place. This year, the publisher will do the same, hosting another EA-exclusive Play event in the Hollywood Palladium from June 10-12. EA’s games will likely feature in Sony and Microsoft’s booths, however EA will not have a designated stall within the main arena itself. “Whether in person or online, EA PLAY 2017 will connect fans around the world to EA’s biggest new games through live broadcasts, community content, competitions and more,” says EA in a statement. “Those that can attend in Hollywood will experience hands-on gameplay, live entertainment and much more.”

 

Odds are, we’ll get more news on both projects in the months ahead, along with additional footage at E3 when the show arrives a few days later. Until then, we play the waiting game… Or go back to playing Battlefront (EA’s version or otherwise).

 

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

14 thoughts on “Electronic Arts Plans EA Play Presentation Before E3, Will Most Likely Feature Star Wars.

  • January 20, 2017 at 9:31 pm
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    I wonder if in Celebration we’ll get other games than these ones for consoles as well, maybe a new one for Switch as well?

    • January 20, 2017 at 10:12 pm
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      Force knows the Nintendo Switch needs a killer third-party title. A Rogue Squadron spiritual successor set in between Jedi and Force Awakens would be stellar. Especially if it followed Poe Dameron during his time with the New Republic fleet and their T-85s.

      I wouldn’t mind a canon version of Shadows of the Empire either.

      • January 20, 2017 at 10:48 pm
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        Yeah, it could be a nice spiritual successor of it. 🙂

      • January 21, 2017 at 12:13 am
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        I really hope that third party developers start making games for the switch..they’re all onboard from what I’ve seen during the announcement..but now let’s see if they deliver. Just imagine being able to play battlefront 2 on the go!

      • January 21, 2017 at 9:41 am
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        Not much going on in that era, Just minor skirmishes like between I and II. I agree though that there should be a ST era space fighter game as well as a book series like the old 90’s Rogue Squadron. I’d love to see an all alien squadron too.

  • January 20, 2017 at 11:15 pm
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    Anyone else surprised with the lack of games for Star Wars? There used to be so many greats. Now we see nothing but the odd mobile app and a single, very boring (with awesome graphics) FPS. I still play Rebellion and Tie Fighter, there were so many great games in the 90’s and Star Wars had so much less content then.

    • January 20, 2017 at 11:36 pm
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      from what i’ve heard the current generation graphics are so time and labor intensive that they have to sacrifice content for looks. which is sad if true.

      • January 21, 2017 at 3:57 am
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        That’s a silly justification if you’ve actually heard it from someone. In the OLD days, the time and energy had to be spent trying to deal with limited system resources that severely restricted things like number of vertices in models and textures. The current generation of consoles (and let’s face it, for mass appeal, they’re designing around consoles) have far more resources available to push pixels around. There’s ALWAYS been some part of design that’s labor intensive. It’s pretty clear that the real limit on content is how games are sold – don’t ship with everything, because then you have to WORK to produce new content to sell as DLC. Don’t put too much effort into DLC because then people have more incentive to buy NEXT year’s version of the same game. It’s the appalling current sales model that’s hurting games.

        • January 21, 2017 at 4:33 am
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          i suspect its a combo of both.

    • January 21, 2017 at 9:38 am
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      RIP Lucasarts, Man. Yeah, They slipped in quality towards the end but I’d take their worse product over what we are getting now. I don’t care for any of the Disney canon games.

    • January 21, 2017 at 9:46 pm
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      Regarding the time period since 2012, I think it is mainly due to the fact that EA as a publisher had to take over the supervisement of game development. Such transactions and prepartion for new projects takes time (often a lot of time). Regarding the years before that, Lucasarts was not in it’s best shape during that time.

      Personally I was rather happy when I’ve heard that the rights were taken away from Lucasarts. Do not misunderstand me: Lucasarts had made some great games in it’s golden age. But the quality and the quantity of their SW games had decreased dramatically in their last 5-6 years.

      It takes EA more time to release new SW games that I’ve hoped for, but still I think that they can make a difference. There were some very promising news and details showed in the last few months and it seems that at least 3 different developers are now working on SW games now and others may be join the club as well.

      I am definetly waiting for the single-player game that is developed by Visceral Games.

  • January 20, 2017 at 11:37 pm
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    ”Most likely” Why wouden’t they, they have several projects atm so
    atleast one will be showcased or briefley spoken about.
    EA/Motif/Visceral game will most likely be featured as they have done
    several times now.

    • January 23, 2017 at 1:14 pm
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      They *could* reveal the game at Celebration. But it all depends upon the timing of when they want to make announcements and when the game is actually expected to drop.

      – Pomojema

  • January 21, 2017 at 9:38 am
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    Han Solo may suck but there’s sure to be a good game out of it.

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