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Rumour: Bioware working on a new KOTOR game

However, we've been told by two sources that the rumours aren't true.

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The journalist Liam Robertson (who was the source of an earlier story regarding Bioware's new IP, which we also reported on), has raised eyebrows with claims that Bioware Austin is working on a new Knights of the Old Republic game.

These claims were made on Robertson's Patreon podcast and transcribed by SW Game Outpost, and he says: "I've learned now that [BioWare Austin is] pretty much now exclusively working on Star Wars games and they're going to be doing that for the indefinite future. What they're currently working on right now—and I have this on good authority—is a sort of remake/revival of Knights of the Old Republic. I don't know when this is set to come out, but it has been in development for a little while now."

"I don't really know how that game'll end up," he continued. "I've heard that it isn't exactly a remake anymore, but it started as a remake/revival. Now it's kind of going from that blueprint in sort of its own original thing. I guess we'll see what that turns out to be, but they are prototyping it right now."

Robertson went on to speculate it won't be a direct sequel, though. "I think this is sort of like wiping the slate clean," he added. "I think this is going to embrace the new Star Wars universe lore because Knights of the Old Republic was sort of just pushed into the expanded universe, the Legends canon of Star Wars."

Since none of the above is officially confirmed, you should probably take all of this with a hefty pinch of salt. We're certainly not getting our hopes up, as two separate sources have told us that there isn't much truth to these rumours. Apparently, Bioware Austin looked into making a making a new KOTOR game/reboot two years ago, but have now moved on to helping with the new IP and a yet to be announced game.

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