Disney gives hope for Knights of the Old Republic Remake

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is for many the best video game based in the Star Wars universe. Developed by Bioware, the 2003 RPG was announced to be getting a remake a couple years ago – before ultimately seemingly being canned. Despite this, hope lives on thanks to a new statement from Disney.

Last month we reported on the fact that the remake – which was announced in 2021 – has seemingly been cancelled. It was already known that the project had suffered from development issues; being moved from Aspyr to Saber Interactive, but insider reports then claimed that development had all but completely stopped.

While the game appears to be on life support it isn’t quite dead, as in a recent statement to Axios, Disney's head of gaming Sean Shoptaw said “Not a lot I can say on that point for some hopefully obvious reasons, but KOTOR is obviously an incredibly popular game, one that we are incredibly proud of and think that there's still a lot of demand for.”

Shoptaw continued, “Can't say whether the remake will ever actually come out, but yes, two people from Saber Interactive tell me they're still on it, despite recent rumors that nobody is working on the game.”

Remaking a game such as KOTOR is a rather ambitious affair, and so it would not be surprising to see it ultimately peter out – but for the sake of the fans, hopefully whoever is still working on it manages to pull through.

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