Quantic Dream on a Star Wars game?

After years under the yoke of Electronic Arts, license video game adaptations Star Wars recently opened up to new developers. If we already know that the giant Ubisoft is currently working on an open world game adapted from the saga of George Lucas, another French developer would also see his future in the Force …

Quantic Dream, the studio behind the games Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls and more recently Detroit: Become Human, would also go to a galaxy far, far away.

A merger between Disney and Quantic Dream?

In any case, this is what tease Tom Henderson, American journalist for the DualShockers website, on his official Twitter account. A simple image posted on the social network would say a lot about the projects of Quantic Dream: we see Daniel, one of the characters of the blockbuster Detroit: Become Human, subtly surrounded by lightsaber. We should not have to analyze the image for hours to see a possible rapprochement between the license of LucasFilm and the French developer …

Another source, this time French, also affirms the existence of a Star Wars game in the boxes of Quantic Dream. Gautoz, former journalist for the French site Gamekult, recently unveiled the scoop during his morning video game news on Thursday, September 16.

“A priori, the next game of Quantic Dream, now that they have completed their three-game contract with Sony, the next game would be a signing with Disney. […] It looks like Quantic Dream is currently working on a Star Wars game. ”

An announcement coming soon?

Quantic Dream has recently returned to the forefront of the news after the recent conclusions of the trial between the French studio and Le Monde newspapers and the Mediapart site.

Reminder of the facts: the two editors had published a joint investigation in January 2018 pointing the finger at the supposed toxic work culture substituting in the Parisian premises of Quantic Dream, maintained by the two leaders David Cage and Guillaume de Fondaumière.

After being convicted in 2018 and then released on appeal by the Labor Court last April, the studio sued the two editors for defamation. The verdict fell on September 9, 2021: if Mediapart rejected the studio’s accusations, Le Monde was finally sentenced. A court decision that would participate in the international communication of the studio according to Gautoz, seeing in it a desire to show white paw before the announcement of a new project, far from controversies.