14 DAY TRIAL // We already know that this year's Spike Video Game Awards will do more than just praise those that have been already launched and that some premiers will be present. The first official look at Halo: Reach will be hosted by the show and now another title with a powerful franchise behind it has been teased. Kotaku guest editor Geoff Keighley has announced that a brand-new Star Wars game will be unveiled by Spike TV. He has posted a link to the teaser trailer, but, no matter how hard you'd scrunch your eyes, play the clip frame by frame or listen to the most obscure audio detail, you won't find anything there concerning this upcoming Star Wars game.
The entire trailer is made up of footage from already-announced titles, with the only unreleased one being the massively multiplayer online role-playing game from BioWare, Star Wars the Old Republic. The definite answer to this puzzle will come no later than December 12, at the Spike Awards, but, until then, we're free to sit around a camp fire and try to figure out which is the most possible candidate for this game.
The chances that this is a new IP are small, but not improbable. The gaming industry has seen a serious slump for the last months, with a lot of studios cutting back on their costs, employees and even on entire branches of their companies. So, it's very doubtful that anybody is willing to take any chances right now and try to promote an entirely new concept. The next possible candidate would be Battlefront 3, a game that was rumored to be in development by Pandemic Studios. Pandemic was shut down by EA just a few days ago, but the title might have survived.
Another possibility is that, with The Force Unleashed released for the PC as well as the Ultimate Sith Edition, Lucas Arts is done with the title and it's ready for a sequel. After all, it put a lot of work into that engine and it would be a shame to waste it on just one Star Wars game. From here on, it anybody's guess. It could be another Knights of the Old Republic or the Republic Commando 2, but, honestly, anything will do. As long as it's not another Lego spinoff. Enough is enough.