The past we heard of the effort to remake Bioware’s classical Star Wars RPG Knights Of The Old Republic, two of the game’s pb developers had been fired and a crippled primitively hoping for a 2022 merchandise was present looking astatine 2025. A caller study present paints an adjacent bleaker picture.

A communicative connected Bloomberg says that improvement connected the game, having already been paused, has present been taken distant from Austin-based Aspyr entirely, and moved to “one of Saber Interactive’s Eastern European studios” (The Embracer Group owns some Aspyr and the Saber workplace successful question).

In a fiscal study released by The Embracer Group past week, it was announced that:

One of the Group’s AAA projects has transitioned to different workplace wrong the Group. This was done to guarantee the prime barroom is wherever we request it to beryllium for the title. We are not expecting immoderate worldly delays for the rubric based connected this transition.

It was speculated astatine the clip that this task could person been KOTOR, and Bloomberg’s report—which besides says that Sony and Disney, “both of whom person fiscal interests successful the game, were displeased with advancement nether Aspyr”— surely makes this look likely.

Saber had really already been progressive successful the task successful an assistive capacity, with CEO Mathew Karch telling investors earlier successful the year:

We’re afloat assured that the crippled is going to beryllium fantastic, but it’s a massive, monolithic merchandise and monolithic products necessitate a batch of effort and a batch of clip to marque good. And particularly erstwhile you’re talking astir a crippled [that’s] already old—very old—we’ve fundamentally had to remake that crippled from scratch.

While this surely doesn’t bode good for the game—or astatine slightest its hopes of coming retired immoderate clip soon—let’s not hide that the archetypal was released successful 2003. It’s not similar we can’t hold different twelvemonth oregon 2 for a remake.