Come on, everyone. No complaining. We’re going down the rumor road. I don’t like it, you don’t like it, but by gum, it’s going to happen. Reading up on rumors, hearsay, and general tittering about the net is like going to the dentist. You have to do it regularly, whether you like it or not, and you will most likely end up bleeding out the mouth afterward.
So what’s the latest hubbub, bubs? Star Wars: Battlefront III, the last project running at Free Radical before the studio collapsed and had to start sleeping on Crytek’s couch, has found itself a new home. Demo footage of the game leaked onto the net in January, accompanied by some of the nerdiest, not to mention sweetest, concept art ever created. Sith Ben Kenobi? At the risk of insuring my bachelordom for the rest of history, I’m going to go ahead and say that’s cool as hell. It was sad, then, that the project was reportedly handed to Rebellion. That studio’s recent work isn’t terrible, by any means. They’ve managed to turn out not-embarrassing licensed games for the PSP in very short time frames. (Their Aliens vs. Predator tie-in was finished in just six months. It was pretty sucky, but you could play it. Six months is damn impressive.) That said, their contribution to the Battlefront series, Star Wars: Battlefront Renegade on PSP, was outright terrible. The rumor spreading like a very slow, small wild fire across the net today is that Rebellion has now handed Battlefront III back to the series’ creator, Pandemic.