Stig Asmussen

EA has revealed that they have cancelled a Star Wars FPS game from Respawn Entertainment.

The first Cal Kestis Lego figure has been revealed as part of a new $160 Star Wars set.

Free trials of Star Wars games have launched for Xbox and Nintendo Switch players.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor seems to be in the process of making its way to EA Play.

The director of Respawn's Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Stig Asmussen, is heading up a brand new studio called Giant Skull.

The game director of the Star Wars Jedi titles, Stig Asmussen, has formed a new independent studio — with its first project already in the works.

Stig Asmussen, best known for directing Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, has announced his brand-new studio, Giant Skull.

Stig Asmussen, acclaimed director of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor, has split from Respawn Entertainment and EA to create his own AAA game studio named Giant Skull. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched nearly a year ago to high praise from Star Wars fans and from gamers in general, going on to become one of the very best titles of the year, and leaving fans yearning for the series' confirmed third installment.

Stig Asmussen, the director of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, has revealed his new studio Giant Skull following his departure from Respawn Entertainment and EA last year.

Former Star Wars Jedi series director and God Of War developer Stig Asmussen has founded a new studio, Giant Skull, to work on "gameplay-driven, story immersed action-adventure games set in captivating worlds". Based in Los Angeles, Giant Skull are even now developing a new "AAA single-player-focused action adventure" that runs on Unreal Engine 5.

Stig Asmussen, the director behind the Star Wars Jedi series and God of War III, has formed a new AAA game studio based in Los Angeles. According to a press release, Giant Skull will create “gameplay-driven, story-immersed action-adventure games set in captivating worlds.”

Star Wars Jedi series director Stig Asmussen has announced the formation of his own studio, Giant Skull.

Star Wars Jedi series and God of War III director Stig Asmussen has announced the establishment of Giant Skull, a new game studio dedicated to building “gameplay-driven, story immersed action–adventure games set in captivating worlds.” It is currently working on a AAA single-player-focused action adventure game built on Unreal Engine 5.

Stig Asmussen – the director of God of War 3, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – was confirmed to have left Respawn Entertainment in September last year, and it’s now been revealed what he’s working on next.

Game director Stig Asmussen, who left Respawn Entertainment last fall after making two games for publisher Electronic Arts, has a new studio. It’s called Giant Skull, and he’s bringing a long list of ex-Respawn talent with him to his new venture.

After a boom of video game studio foundings, acquisitions, and developer recruiting in the late 2010s and early 2020s, the industry is headed in the opposite direction. Acquisitions have slowed down, layoffs happen multiple times a week, and news of canceled projects and studio closures has overtaken that of studio announcements. During this time, an industry veteran and game director behind titles like God of War 3 and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has started a new studio

Stig Asmussen, the game director of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, as well as God of War 3, has announced the new studio he formed after leaving Respawn and EA last year. It’s called Giant Skull, and his new team aims to create a new, premium, AAA narrative-driven single-player third-person action-adventure game.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's director has founded a brand new studio in LA full of industry veterans, and they're currently working on a new action-adventure game in Unreal Engine 5.

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Electronic Arts was the latest publisher to join the industry in laying off a portion of its workforce. It also announced the closure of Ridgeline Games, with Criterion now working on future Battlefield campaigns, and cancelled Respawn’s Star Wars FPS (rumored to feature a playable Mandalorian).

Electronic Arts has cancelled an in-development Star Wars first-person shooter at Respawn.

With Electronic Arts joining an ever-growing list of companies being hit with layoffs and announcing a 5% reduction in its workforce, the full ramifications of how that will affect individual projects and studios within the company are also being clearer.

Star Wars Jedi actor Cameron Monaghan says he’d like to reprise his role as Cal Kestis in a live-action Star Wars project, but only if it “makes sense”.

A job listing by developer Respawn Entertainment could point to a Star Wars Jedi: Survivor sequel.

Respawn Entertainment’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has received a new patch. It’s not very big, but there are some essential fixes, like for creature and vehicle animations. Furthermore, there’s a fix for the binocular beacons not working when ray tracing is disabled.

Cameron Monaghan, the actor behind Cal Kestis, the protagonist of both Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, has confirmed that a third game is currently in the works.

Actor Cameron Monaghan casually confirmed that a sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is in development. During the Ocala Comic Con event, the voice and motion capture artist behind the protagonist Cal Kestis said, “We're working on the third. We're in the process of doing it right now.” The news comes as a surprise, considering the series director Stig Asmussen, who rebuilt and instilled faith in single-player Star Wars games, recently left EA/ Respawn Entertainment. However, he always expressed interest in furthering and concluding Cal's arc through a trilogy, with discussions of a sequel dating back even before 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was out.

A third Star Wars Jedi game is in the works, according to actor Cameron Monaghan, with the newly-announced sci-fi sequel expected to follow on from 2019's Fallen Order and 2023's Survivor.

A sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is in development, at least according to the game’s star, Cameron Monaghan, who plays Cal Kestis. That’s probably not a surprise to Star Wars fans, especially given publisher Electronic Arts recently praising Jedi: Survivor for its “critical acclaim and commercial success” back in August.

A third game in the Star Wars Jedi series is in the works, the actor behind its protagonist has confirmed.

During a recent panel at Ocala Comic Con in Florida, Cameron Monaghan, who plays Cal Kestis in the Star Wars: Jedi videogames, confirmed that a third one is in the works. At the end of the panel, near the 43-minute mark in a fan-recorded video, Monaghan said, «We're working on the third, we're in the process of doing that right now. So that's a big undertaking and it's been some conversations so far, but hopefully when all things are said and done we'll be able to go in and make something really cool for you guys again.»

Given the widespread critical and commercial success that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and its sequel, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor have enjoyed, it seems safe to assume that there will be a third game in the series, and though one hasn’t been officially announced yet, actor Cameron Monaghan, who plays Star Wars Jedi protagonist Cal Kestis, has let slip that work on the series’ next instalment is underway.

Actor Cameron Monaghan casually confirmed that another Star Wars Jedi game is in development.

Actor and voice artist Cameron Monaghan has confirmed that a third Star Wars: Jedi game is on the way.

Cal Kestis actor Cameron Monaghan has said that he is currently working on a third Star Wars Jedi game.

A new entry in the Star Wars Jedi series is currently in the works, according to the main character Cal Kestis' voice actor.

Cameron Monaghan, the actor who plays Cal Kestis in Star Wars Jedi, has confirmed that a third game in the series is currently in development at Respawn Entertainment.

Stig Asmussen, director of both 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and this year's Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Respawn Entertainment for parts unknown. Asmussen had previously stated he envisioned a trilogy for protagonist Cal Kestis, but it seems that particular story will need to be helmed by another.

Stig Asmussen, the director of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Respawn Entertainment «to pursue other adventures».

Stig Asmussen, the director of the Star Wars Jedi series is departing EA and Respawn. 

The director of Star Wars Jedi Survivor and Jedi Fallen Order is leaving EA after helping to revitalize the company's games set in a galaxy far, far away. 

EA has announced that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Star Wars Jedi:Fallen Order’s creative director, Stig Asmussen, is leaving Respawn Entertainment.

Industry veteran Stig Asmussen is leaving Respawn Entertainment.

Stig Asmussen, game director of Respawn's Star Wars Jedi franchise, is leaving EA.

Stig Asmussen, known as the Game Director on both Star Wars Jedi games and before that for his work on the original God of War trilogy, has left Respawn Entertainment.

Stig Asmussen, the director of such critically and commercially lauded titles as EA’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is departing from the company, per Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.

Stig Asmussen, the director behind the acclaimed Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Respawn Entertainment and EA to «pursue other adventures».

Director Stig Asmussen, who worked onStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Respawn Entertainment. In a statement to Bloomberg, an Electronic Arts spokesperson said, “After careful thought and consideration, Stig Asmussen has decided to leave Respawn to pursue other adventures, and we wish him the best of luck.”

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The director of both Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and this year’s Jedi: Survivor is departing EA after close to a decade at developers Respawn.

Stig Asmussen, the director of both Star Wars Jedi games, is leaving developer Respawn Entertainment.

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson has teased exciting unannounced projects currently in development at Respawn.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s seventh update has arrived for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.

Released on April 28, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has been a success for Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment, earning both critical and commercial acclaim. Although it originally skipped the last-gen consoles, the EA first-quarter earnings call revealed that Respawn has PS4 and Xbox One ports on the way for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. As the released EA report brief reveals, the company is looking to continue capitalizing on its financially well-performing franchises, including Star Wars Jedi.

In spite of its fair share of technical woes, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has enjoyed plenty of critical and commercial success since its launch earlier this year, making it two for two where EA and Respawn Entertainment’s single player Star Wars titles are concerned. In fact, to no one’s surprise, EA seems to have every intention of making more games in the Star Wars Jedi series.

Jedi: Survivor is getting a last-gen edition.

EA has announced that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will be coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.