Obsidian pitching Star Wars RPG set between episodes III and IV

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“I would say it's within the top three pitches we've ever come up with,” Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart told RPS , describing Obsidian's pitch for a new Star Wars game set between the end of the recent trilogy and the start of A New Hope.

Urquhart described how Obsidian condensed their ideas into a pithy eight page pitch and almost lured Lucasarts in. "We sold it off to LucasArts and got a call back later that day. They were like, 'This seems really cool. We want to talk to you guys, like, tomorrow about it.'”

But it's Disney's decision to make these days. "We haven't [talked with Disney yet]. We're kind of waiting for the smoke to clear. But that's one of my next big things to do. To kind of go over there and [get the ball rolling again].”

A lot happens between films three and four. The Jedi fled Sith kill squads, the Empire strengthened their grip on the Galaxy, and Luke Skywalker learned how to walk and talk without pooing and vomiting indiscriminately. I wonder which aspects of that era Obsidian will focus on?

Tom Senior
Tom Senior

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.