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Star Wars Outlaws’ promise of a vast map where players are able to seamless travel from open world planets and moons into outer space has been one of its more enticing aspects, but there’s still plenty yet that we don’t know about when it comes to what kind of content and gameplay opportunities the game’s space areas will bring. Developer Massive Entertainment has said that space in Star Wars Outlaws will be “full of things to do”– but what things exactly?

Star Wars Outlaws will task players with dealing with several different criminal syndicates at the same time, and while many of these – like the Hutts, the Pykes, and Crimson Dawn – will be familiar to fans of the property, the game will also be introducing things of its own creation into the Star Wars canon as well. There is, for instance, the Ashiga Clan, one of the criminal factions in the game, and in an article published by Game Informer, members of the game’s development team at Massive Entertainment have revealed more details on the newly created Syndicate.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has received a new update that adds a 40 FPS mode for players on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. Ubisoft's latest open world adventure game, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora was released just before the end of 2023 and has mainly been praised for its stunning first-person visuals. Set in the timeline of the blockbuster films, Frontiers of Pandora gives players control of a young Na'vi as they escape and fight back against the RDA.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora came and went without making too much of a mark for a great many people who played it, but developer Massive Entertainment has continued to put out new patches for the open world title since its launch in December, with another one now having gone live in the form of Title Update 3.2.

Ubisoft and developer Massive Entertainment haven’t spoken as much about Star Wars Outlaws’ space sections as they have about its many planets and moons and the gameplay opportunities they will present, but what little has been said so far has certainly indicated that the game’s grand scale and ambition will be reflected in the parts of its intergalactic map where protagonist Kay Vess will be piloting her ship, the Trailblazer.

Star Wars: Outlaws isn't just an open world retread of existing Star Wars locations, like Tatooine. It contains a whole new moon of developer Massive Entertainment's creation - Toshara, which is home to the Pyke criminal gang and visually defined by huge deposits of crystalline orange material and cities hacked out of mountains. What's it like adding a whole bloody world to Star Wars? Here are some quick thoughts from Massive Entertainment's creative director Julian Gerighty.

Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment are promising an expansive open world experience with the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws, which is being billed as the ultimate scoundrel fantasy, and though that will involve a lot of juggling of different criminal syndicates and maintaining your reputation with each different faction, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to find the time to sit down and, say, play some cards.

Ubisoft has responded to backlash following its decision to lock a Star Wars Outlaws mission behind a Season Pass on day one.

Get your dealing hands ready, as Star Wars Outlaws will let us all participate in a round of Sabacc or two.

Following a mild-to-moderate outcry, Ubisoft have clarified that queasy worm gangster Jabba The Hutt isn't, in fact, a Star Wars Outlaws special edition or season pass exclusive. The apparently much-beloved star slug will appear in every edition of the game, but if you scrape together the credits for the Gold or Ultimate Editions, you'll get access to a Jabba's Gambit mission as part of the game's season pass.

Since its latest story trailer debuted, Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws has received some interesting reactions. However, several have spoken out against the Jabba’s Gambit mission, which is playable at launch but only for those who own the Season Pass. The only way to get it is by paying $129.99 for the Ultimate Edition.

Ubisoft has responded to the outcry over Star Wars Outlaws' Jabba the Hutt mission, which will be available at the game's launch only to owners of the game's pricey Gold or Ultimate Editions.

Ubisoft's upcoming Star Wars Outlaws will lock an exclusive mission featuring Jabba the Hutt behind the Season Pass. While Star Wars fans were excited about the concept of an open world title set in A Galaxy Far Far Away, the latest information revealed for Outlaws has been controversial. Star Wars Outlaws takes place before Return of the Jedi, and places its players in the role of Kay Vess, an ambitious scoundrel and thief from Cantonica. However, despite being an entirely single-player experience, Ubisoft has designed Star Wars Outlaws as an always-online title, with a Season Pass that will offer players access to exclusive content.

Fans are excited to jump into this next major video game release for the Star Wars franchise. We know Star Wars Outlaws is coming this summer, and if you’re contemplating whether you should pick up a preorder, there might be one mission to convince you. That’s to at least convince you to spend more money and acquire one of the higher-tier editions of the game before its release. Unfortunately, there is already one mission locked behind a season pass, and it’s set to debut at launch.

Perhaps this should go without saying, but there's no need to drop £115 on Star Wars: Outlaws' expensive Ultimate Edition, which includes an «exclusive» mission with Jabba the Hutt.

Star Wars Outlaws will include a mission at launch which can only be accessed with a Season Pass.

With Star Wars Outlaws, developer Massive Entertainment is looking to deliver the ultimate Star Wars scoundrel fantasy, which, of course, means protagonist Kay Vess (and her adorable companion Nix) will be crossing paths with a number of different factions, the majority of them being criminal syndicates.

Based on all that we’ve seen of Star Wars Outlaws so far, it’s clear that its Reputation system is going to be central to the experience. As protagonist Kay Vess navigates the Outer Rim’s criminal underworld and works with (and against) a variety of factions during the course of her journey, the decisions you make as the player will affect her standing with each of those factions– which, in turn, will have a variety of gameplay consequences, as you may have guessed.

From dust-ups with different criminal syndicates and dynamically occurring open world events to densely populated urban settlements and more, the many planets and moons you’ll explore in Star Wars Outlaws’ open world setting are promising to have a bevy of content on offer- but what about when you’re off-planet?

From the Hutts and the Pykes to the Crimson Dawn, the Empire, and more, Star Wars Outlaws protagonist Kay Vess will be dealing with a number of different factions during the course of the game’s story, each one of them powerful and formidable in their own unique way, with a Reputation system encompassing her interactions with each of them. As Kay, your actions will impact your experience in a number of ways– including even the open world and what challenges and content it will throw your way.

Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws features a $110 Gold Edition and a $130 Ultimate Edition, and some fans are not happy about what they are getting for those high prices. The more expensive editions of Star Wars Outlaws include premium benefits that have become commonplace in recent years.

Open world towers were a decidedly neat idea when Ubisoft first introduced them a decade and a half ago, but by shoehorning them into virtually every open world game it made from that point forward, the company ensured that the mechanic ended up outstaying its welcome (also thanks to the fact that several non-Ubisoft games have borrowed the mechanic as well). The next big open world game company from the company, however, won’t be sticking to that convention.

Open world games are often in the habit of being larger than they need to be, particularly when they’re coming from Ubisoft, but developer Massive Entertainment continues to make assurances that it’s taking a different approach with the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws. The action-adventure title will see players exploring the Outer Rim, which, as you might imagine, will mean visiting a number of different planets and locations. Obviously, not all has been revealed on that front, but details have emerged on one particular location in a recently published Game Informer preview, and how its design prioritized density over size.

GameInformer has shared an interesting preview for Star Wars Outlaws, revealing just how much of a sly fox Kay Vess is going to be.

NOTE: There are spoilers ahead for Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The cover art for Massive Entertainment's Star Wars Outlaws confirmed players with a physical disk will still need an internet connection to play the game. Star Wars Outlaws recently unveiled a new story trailer, which featured a sneak peek into Ubisoft's upcoming open-world adventure in a galaxy far, far away. However, some fans were displeased when images of the game's PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X box art confirmed its installation isn't as simple as slotting in a disk.

Star Wars Outlaws received a new trailer Tuesday, revealing key story details, more characters and a release date. The action-adventure title from Ubisoft will be released on August 30, 2024. The open world Star Wars game will put players in the shoes of Kay Vess, a scoundrel taking on intergalactic heists in the Outer Rim during a time when criminal organisations are thriving. Star Wars Outlaws is now available for pre-order across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X platforms.

Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment have announced an August release date for Star Wars Outlaws, following which pre-orders have gone live for the open world action-adventure title. With those pre-orders going live, new details have also emerged on the game’s physical version in particular.

Ubisoft recently premiered a new story trailer for Star Wars Outlaws, offering another look at Massive Entertainment’s upcoming open world action-adventure title, and confirming that it’ll be releasing this August. Alongside that, the company has also released a developer breakdown of the trailer, in which narrative director Navid Khavari sheds new light on some of the game’s key characters, the many underworld syndicates protagonist Kay Vess will be crossing paths with, and more.

A wealth of new information about Star Wars Outlawshas been revealed, including the game’s pre-order bonuses and how fans can jump into the adventure a few days early. Ubisoft and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora developer Massive Entertainment announced that they were working on an open-world Star Wars game way back in 2021, but it wouldn’t be until the Xbox Games Showcase last June that players got their first official look at Star Wars Outlaws in action.

The physical version of Star Wars Outlaws will require an online connection to install, it’s been revealed.

Ubisoft has released a new story trailer for Star Wars Outlaws, which is viewable above.

Ubisoft Massive's open world action-adventure Star Wars Outlaws will release on 30th August 2024, according to a new story trailer which introduces us properly to "emerging scoundrel" Kay Vess, aka Hannah Solo. If you haven't had the pleasure, Kay is a budding crook on the run from her underworld boss, a journey that sees her tangling with several other Star Wars crime syndicates on various planets. It really feels like they're keeping a lot of the headline Star Wars stuff at a respectful distance for this one: yes, Jabba the Hutt makes an appearance, but there's nary a whiff of The Force, Jedi or Sith in the trailer and not once does anybody build a Death Star.

Massive Entertainment’sStar Wars Outlaws launches on August 30th for Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC, with pre-orders now available. The development has hyped the action-adventure title’s scale and the decisions that can cause consequences throughout the story. While Gold and Ultimate Edition owners get three days of early access, they also receive the Season Pass.

Ubisoft’s latest trailer for Star Wars Outlaws is live, diving deeper into the setting and story. Though revealed by the Japanese version’s description earlier today, it’s now official – Massive Entertainment’s action-adventure will launch on August 30th for Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC.

After months of classifications and rumors, Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws officially launches on August 30th worldwide. It retails for $69.99 on Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC via Ubisoft Connect, with pre-orders receiving the Kessel Runner Bonus Pack to adorn their speeder and Trailblazer spaceship with new cosmetics.

Ubisoft has revealed a new Star Wars Outlaws story trailer — and with it, confirmation of the game's release date.

Star Wars Outlaws will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Ubisoft Store on August 30 for $69.99, publisher Ubisoft and developer Massive Entertainment announced.

There’s been no shortage of recent indications that Star Wars Outlaws is going to release sooner than many expect. In addition to age ratings going up in Brazil, Australia, and South Korea, promotional pre-order material for the game has also been spotted in the wild, while leaks have previously claimed that the game is due out in the first half of the year. Now, a release date has leaked, and though it’s not quite in the first half of 2024, it’s still not terribly far away.

The release date for Star Wars Outlaws has seemingly been leaked.

Rumblings around Star Wars Outlaws have been growing increasingly louder in recent days. Recently, Ubisoft revealed that it would be premiering a new story trailer of the open world action-adventure title on April 9, and with many hoping that the trailer comes with a release date announcement, it’s now also looking like pre-orders for the title will be going live soon as well.

Ubisoft’s arrives this year but doesn’t have a specific release date yet. However, fans will get another look at the science fantasy space action-adventure game when the story trailer premiers on Tuesday.

A new Star Wars Outlaws story trailer will premiere next week, on April 9 at 9AM PST / 5PM CET, Ubisoft has announced.

Ahead of its Ubisoft Forward showcase on June 10th, Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws will receive a new story trailer. It premieres on April 9th at 9 AM PST/6 PM CET.

Another region has published their rating for Massive Entertainment’s upcoming bounty hunter simulator, Star Wars Outlaws.

E3 might be officially dead, but June is still the time where the industry will collectively be shedding light on what the future will bring, with events like the Xbox Games Showcase and Summer Game Fest already having been confirmed for the month. Another name has also now joined that list.

A week after Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee gave Star Wars Outlaws a 19+ rating, Australia has also published their rating for the game.

Star Wars Outlaws is officially supposed to launch sometime this year, and though Ubisoft and developer Massive Entertainment haven’t yet nailed down a narrower release timing for the action-adventure title, recent developments seem to be indicating that it’ll be out sooner than some might expect.

Star Wars Outlaws has received a rating from South Korea.

Ubisoft's open-world RPG Star Wars Outlaws has been rated in South Korea as adults only due to its inclusion of in-game gambling elements.

When Ubisoft and developer Massive Entertainment formally unveiled Star Wars Outlaws last year, the open world action-adventure title was officially handed a 2024 launch window, and though further details on when the game will launch have been scant since then, there are indications that that could change soon.

In Ubisoft’s entire slate of upcoming games right now, it’s hard to point at any game that’s looking like it’s going to be a bigger deal than Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws. How long it’ll be before Ubisoft begins dropping more details on the open world action-adventure game remains to be seen, but new tidbits have emerged on its PC version in particular.

Three months after the release of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, developer Massive Entertainment unveiled Title Updates 3 and 3.1, two major patches that add various quality-of-life improvements and fix gameplay issues. With the regular addition of new features and bug fixes, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora keeps on improving the overall gameplay experience for players who want to explore the main planet from the Avatar universe.

Ubisoft released its third quarter fiscal year 2024 sales report and confirmed that titles like Assassin’s Creed Codename Red and Star Wars Outlaws will launch between April 21st, 2024 and March 31st, 2025. Fans can expect the line-up, which includes The Division Resurgence and Rainbow Six Mobile, to be revealed in May.

In a financial report released today, Ubisoft said they intend to release Star Wars Outlaws in 2024. That was already expected. More interesting is that Assassin's Creed Codename Red, the stab 'em up set in feudal Japan, is also due to launch in the "fiscal year 2025". That's also known as "before March 2025", for all you non-CEOs.

When Star Wars Outlaws was formally unveiled in June, Ubisoft handed it a general 2024 release window, and that release window was seemingly narrowed down by a recent Disney blog post that stated the open world action-adventure game would be out sometime in “late” 2024.

Star Wars Outlaws is the biggest and most significant release Ubisoft has planned for this year, and it certainly looked impressive in its first showings back in June. In a new preview published by Kotaku, more brief details have been revealed on the action-adventure title’s open world setting and what players can expect from it.

Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft's upcoming open world Star Wars game, is set to release "late this year", according to Disney. Announced via a Disney Parks blog post of all things, Star Wars Outlaws ranks as the No.22 most "Ooooh-Worthy Thing" out of the 2024 Disney Experiences line-up - which, considering the list only stretches to 24 entries is a bit of an unfair burn on the game, if you ask me, especially when No.21 is... *checks notes* new Disney Eats and Stitch clothes collections.

Ubisoft's upcoming open world Star Wars game Outlaws looks to be set for a «late» 2024 release.

Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws was one of the bigger announcements of last year, but outside of 2024, publisher Ubisoft didn’t provide a release date. However, Disney may have let the cat out of the bag early on its Disney Parks website.

Ubisoft’s launches tomorrow, December 7, on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Amazon Luna. The first-person action game puts players in the role of a Na’vi orphan who must help the tribes of the Western Frontier resist the Resources Development Administration. However, some reviewers came away with a more positive perception than others.

Hi PlayStation Blog readers! Avatar: Frontiers of Pandorawill be out tomorrow on PS5, letting you to play as a Na’vi and explore a brand-new continent of Pandora: the Western Frontier. The team at Massive Entertainment – an Ubisoft Studio, in collaboration with James Cameron’s production company Lightstorm Entertainment and Disney expanded the world of Avatar, offering players the opportunity to discover new regions, clans, fauna and more.

With Massive Entertainment’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora launching tomorrow, Ubisoft has provided some new details and instructions on certain features. It confirms that the day one patch is “mandatory” to start playing. If you’re looking to play offline, a one-time internet connection is necessary, which is worth keeping in mind for those who pick up the physical version and don’t have online access.

Owners of the disc version of Avatar Froniters of Pandora will need to have an online connection to install the game.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is getting its long overdue release not long from now, and as the open world title’s launch draws closer, Ubisoft is continuing to heat up the marketing. The publisher has released another brief trailer that shines a spotlight on the bonuses you will receive if you pre-order the game.

Ubisoft has detailed its season pass for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

Ubisoft Massive’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has gone gold, and while it’s still prepping for launch, a new trailer is available detailing the Season Pass content. Associate creative director Andrada Greciuc breaks it down, starting with Familiar Echoes, a bonus quest available at launch.

Massive Entertainment’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has officially gone gold. Publisher Ubisoft announced the news on Twitter, crediting the developer and its worldwide co-development studios (which include Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Montpellier and many more).

A new trailer is available for Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, showcasing its PS5-exclusive features. Along with 3D Audio, the open-world first-person title leverages DualSense’s Haptic Feedback and Adaptive Triggers. Check out all of these in action below.

Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is out next month, and despite book-ending the year, it’s still a major title based on the billion-dollar movie franchise by James Cameron. While there is some worry about the enemy AI or ease of exploration given the abundance of details, perhaps one of the biggest questions is why it’s in first-person.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has received several new details as of late, from previews and gameplay to Photo Mode confirmed for launch. In issue #161 of Game Informer, Massive Entertainment also revealed that co-op would support drop-in/drop-out features and shared progression.

With Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora set to launch about a month from now, Ubisoft and developer Massive Entertainment have been revealing new details on the open world title pretty consistently in recent weeks, and more new details were confirmed by game director Ditte Deenfeldt and associate game director Drew Rechner in an interview with Game Informer.

After impressions for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora went live recently, extensive gameplay has emerged courtesy of GameSpot. At about 18 minutes, it showcases several aspects of the open-world first-person shooter. Check it out below.

As recent rumours suggested, hands-on previews for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora have gone live across a number of outlets, with the likes of IGN, GameSpot, VGC, Game Informer, and others have published their impressions after a couple of hours with the game, amidst which several new gameplay details have also emerged.

The closing months of 2023 are looking like a busy time for Ubisoft, and with Assassin’s Creed Mirage and The Crew Motorfest having launched recently, the company is now gearing up to also release Massive Entertainment’s open world title Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Ahead of its looming release, the system requirements for its PC version have also been revealed.

In its recent fiscal report for the first half of fiscal year 2023/24 (which runs until March 31, 2024), Ubisoft has announced the delay of an unspecified “large game” from the ongoing fiscal year into the next one. The company says this will allow it to “maximize its value creation”.

Developer Massive Entertainment is hard at work on its upcoming project Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, a first-person open-world adventure set against the backdrop of James Cameron’s universe. We recently got to seea new gameplay trailer for the same, and rumours suggest that gameplay previews are coming within next week.

Not long ago it was quietly announced that The Division 3 was in the works at Ubisoft. I don’t think many fans of the series were surprised, seeing as how The Division 2 has been rehashing old seasons as the wind down supporting it as a live service. The Division 3 will certainly be a welcome inclusion, but with two other The Division titles also on the horizon, the third iteration of the series will need to make some hefty changes, especially if it intends to compete with many of the other looter shooters that have risen in popularity.

Ubisoft has appointed Julian Gerighty as the producer for its Tom Clancy’s The Division brand to oversee all games and products, including the today-announced Tom Clancy’s The Division 3.

The latest PlayStation State of Play gave us another look at Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, set to be released on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox consoles on December 7, 2023. This time, we got to see a sneak peek at our Na’vi protagonist, who was abducted by the RDA and secluded from her world. Now, it is time to reconnect with her roots and learn the ways of the Na’vi.