BioWare strikes down latest KotOR rumor
Yesterday we ran a story about an EA report that appeared to quietly announce that BioWare is working on a new Knights of the Old Republic game. That was pertinent to MMOs because BioWare is making an MMO at its Austin studio, and people have been speculating that it might be based on the KotOR IP.
Well, BioWare got in touch with the Joystiq network to let us know that everyone's been jumping the gun; it turns out that the EA report was referring only in a general fashion to the KotOR IP (to demonstrate "the pedigree of the studio"). EA did not intend to imply that any specific new title is in development. So there goes the basis for the latest KotOR rumor.
That doesn't necessarily eliminate the possibility that KotOR Online or KotOR 3 are on BioWare's plate; it just means that we still don't have any substantial reason to believe that they are -- well, apart from the fact that anything KotOR-related would probably print irresistibly huge stacks of money. We only know the following for sure: BioWare has been developing an MMO that may or may not have anything to do with KotOR (it probably doesn't) for running on two years now, and LucasArts and BioWare are working together on ... something.
They have to tell us what the MMO is sometime, right? Right?
