若 DICE 放弃，《星球大战：前线3》或由 Bungie 开发

Star Wars Battlefront has long been a staple for the Star Wars game franchise, with a recent remake of the 2011 game drawing in over 35,000 peak concurrent players on Steam. According to a recent issue of the Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine, as featured in a recent Giant Bomb Game Mess Mornings podcast, Lucasfilm is eyeing Battlefront 3, with Bungie being one of the studios in the running to create the game. The company is allegedly still deliberating which studio to partner with on the new game, suggesting that Battlefront 3 won't be launching anytime soon.

Electronic Gaming Monthly via Giant BombAccording to what your intrepid rumormonger has dug up, the suits at Lucasfilm have been aggressively deploying probe droids for a development partner to take on the task of creating a follow-up. So far, no one has fully stepped up, but yours truly is hearing two major game studios are circling the project like a couple of snowspeeders—led by the completely unsurprising EA DICE, who we can hope learned from their loot box lesson. Duh. We can expect that one. Here's the other one: There is another. The Quartermann hears that if the Force is not entrusted to DICE, it could land at none other than Halo, Destiny, and Marathon developer Bungie.

For the time being, it seems as though EA's DICE is still the frontrunner for the development of Star Wars Battlefront 3, but EA has consistently shown that its main cash cow is the Battlefield franchise, with a recent move pivoting Criterion Games, the studio known for Burnout and Need for Speed, to Battlefield support studios following a devastating round of layoffs. In spite of its recent stumble with Marathon, Bungie also has a solid foundation in shooters, and it may be interesting to see what Bungie could do with a Battlefront game, given its expertise in high-mobility games and shooters in general, like Destiny and Halo.

Bungie developing Star Wars Battlefront 3 would also have implications for the gameplay, given PlayStation's recent pivot to only porting games to PC when those PC ports can "maximize" the gaming experience, effectively limiting those ports to live-service games.