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What does that mean? The telecast will use NFL player tracking technology to recreate every play of the game in real time, transforming NFL players into animated Star Wars avatars.

Iconic characters from across the Lucasfilm franchise will join the action alongside the AFC and NFC champs, including C-3PO, voiced by original Star Wars cast member Anthony Daniels.

ESPN dropped this promo yesterday of an animated C-3PO and R2-D2 landing on Tatooine, the desert planet.

How did we get into this mess? Seems we are made to suffer.

According to Variety, Electronic Arts told staff this week as part of confirmation of significant cuts that the two studios have been tasked with working together on, quote, a future project, end quote.

Multiple sources confirmed to the outlet that this is Star Wars Battlefront III for Lucasfilm.

This follows an earlier report from Electronic Gaming Monthly that claimed Lucasfilm was speaking to studios, including DICE, about greenlighting a third entry in the shooter series.

Battlefield Studio DICE is the developer of the first two modern entries in the Battlefront series, while Respawn worked on the Star Wars Jedi games and the recent strategy title Zero Company.

When Battlefront 2 was released in 2017, the game was met with intense backlash due to microtransactions, forcing EA to remove them from the game.

So this is a, I feel like I'm traveling back in time trying to pull this thread apart.

I'm like, how is Electronic Gaming Monthly still making magazines? Quote, according to the Quarterman column in the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, which was picked up on Jeff Grubb's Game Mess Mornings podcast, Lucasfilm is actively searching for a studio willing to take on Battlefront 3.

Quote, the suits at Lucasfilm have been aggressively deploying probe droids for a development partner to take on the task of creating a follow-up, end quote.

The column claims.

However, it goes on to explain that no studio has committed to the project just yet, despite two major developers reportedly expressing interest.

So this was all the news was happening early in the week.

So it was first mentioned that DICE and Bungie are fighting for the rights to make Battlefront game, because Lucasfilm Games, or Star Wars, whatever you want to call them, Lucasfilm, yeah, they want another Battlefront game.

because i guess they see how their games are doing so they do they did star wars speed racer it's called speed racer right whatever the racing game is doing well the jedi games have been doing well there's another star wars game came out ah um star wars um that tactical game that uh it's not bad company zero company here we go zero zero star wars zero company it's a strategy game and it's been doing really well so a lot of games have been doing really really well when it comes to Star Wars, and I can see Lucasfilm is like, well, can someone make Battlefront? Because, hey, we want money.

Hey, we want good marketing for the franchise, because franchise is now doing pretty hot right now.

So I'm like, okay.

And it's been almost 10 years since that game came out, so it's been 9 now.

Nine years since that game came out and we never had Battlefront 3 because EA lost the rights to make that game.

Now, years later, Lucasfilm finally realized like, okay, who wants to make it? Who has the capability to make a good Star Wars Battlefront game? So, of course, they went back to DICE and Bungie or DICE, whoever makes it, I think DICE is the right studio to make this game.

Just tighten down your stuff.

Lucasfilm's done it for years.

It's still right now in the top five most watched movies on the platform.

Still.

Does he need a stormtrooper? Yeah, but then Eddie will get fucked.

Eddie will get fucked by Lucasfilm then, and they'll sue him for using Star Wars characters in there.

Everybody wants their intellectual property retained.

You can read that, Jay.

You should, yeah, because he tells it differently in there for some reason.

So what he says, I think, you know, he saw Tron, and at some point, I think after making The Brave Little Toaster, he pitched the idea of making, like, CGI movie to Disney at least that's what he says who knows but like based like what he specifically says in that documentary is that the executive looked at it and they're like well the only reason we could use we should use CGI if we can do things faster and cheaper and then they walked off and then that was it or something so supposedly that's why he got fired for like pitching a full CGI movie to them And then he went on to kind of work at Lucasfilm a little bit and then founded Pixar from there.

And then Apple came in and funded Pixar.

I mean, that's probably more accurate to how it actually went down.

When I used to do the conventions with Carolyn, she used to have a variety of, because Carolyn's a licensed artist for, or she was, she doesn't do it anymore now, since she had her little boy.

But she was a licensed artist for Lucasfilms, for Netflix, for Marvel, for The Walking Dead.

She's got artwork in Alien art book.

We used to do the convention scene and the amount of times kids would come up and ask for Pennywise was ridiculous.

There's been no one for so long.

So if you haven't seen this all over the internet, Star Wars Battlefront 3 has been trending like crazy because apparently there are rumors that Lucasfilm is going to be focusing on a lot more video games, which is great because under EA and under previous leadership, we've really only gotten a few games out of the last 14 years.

And if you look at the old LucasArts compared to the new, you can see that the old one was putting out a lot more content, a lot more video games.

And really out of that we only got Jedi Fallen Order that was kind of like the only good one.