• A long lost Star Wars game resurfaces

    From Spalls Hurgenson@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 11:28:23

    "Star Wars: First Assault", a Star Wars multiplayer FPS, was cancelled
    in 2013 following Disney's acquisition of the franchise. It apparently
    got the axe mere months before it was supposed to be release
    (literally 24 hours before the public beta test was supposed to
    start). But apparently the code has been salvaged and, with a little
    hocus pocus hackery, it can actually be played.*

    Now, this game was designed around the console first, and the hacked
    version requires a gamepad, and an emulator, and it's multiplayer only
    /and/ it really doesn't do much that the 2016 "Battlefront" didn't...
    but as a fan of the classic movies and games, I'm happy to see this
    game wasn't entirely lost to history.

    It's not yet publically available but videos are trickling out of
    people playing it. Hopefully Disney won't have a conniption and give
    the project its blessing (or at least allow people their fun). Can't
    stop the signal!





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    * story here https://www.gamespot.com/articles/canceled-star-wars-fps-is-playable-again-amazing-and-sad-at-the-same-time-dev-says/1100-6538826/



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