Lucasarts and Bioware Team Up, KOTR MMO in the Works?

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Lucasarts and Bioware Team Up, KOTR MMO in the Works?Posted 9:08am Tue Oct 30, 2007 by Tim Grube Tags: Lucasarts, Bioware, Knights of the Old Republic, KOTR, Mass Effect

Two massive videogame companies, Lucasarts and Bioware, announced today the creation to take over the world. Well, not really - but they did announce they have teamed up to create a whole brand new videogame for next-generation platforms.

Considering their collaborations in the past (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, anyone?) and the fact that this is LucasArts, which means that whatever the project is there's a high chance that it's related to the Star Wars brand, those old KoTR MMORPG rumors have once again hit the Web. Click the jump for more info.

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"LucasArts has a deep commitment to developing compelling stories and characters for the unique medium of interactive entertainment, and we have been searching for a developer that shares this value. We found this in BioWare,” said Jim Ward, president of LucasArts. "Through our previous collaborations, we know that BioWare has an impressive ability to blend gripping stories with technological advancements, and we believe that our upcoming product will deliver an experience that will span the traditional boundaries of video game entertainment.”

"BioWare's mission is to deliver the best story and character-driven games in the world, delivering powerful emotional experiences to our fans,” said Ray Muzyka, chief executive officer, BioWare Corp. Added Greg Zeschuk, president of BioWare Corp., "The collaboration with LucasArts allows us to combine our passion for creating high quality and innovative experiences with those of a company dedicated to bringing only the finest games to market.”

Essentially the buzz is high for whatever BioWare has been working on, but what's even more interesting is that BioWare/Pandemic was recently purchased by Electronic Arts this month for a cool $860 million and one of the reasons given by EA for the purchase was an un-listed MMORPG. Whatever the title is, it's expected to launch sometime in 2009.

In the meantime, BioWare's Mass Effect is set to release on November 20 for the Xbox 360. Only one review is in at the moment, but Game Informer has given it a 98 (view the summation here).