Daily Briefing: Monday 25th January

New KOTOR In Development, But Not At EA

Rumour has it that a new Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game is well on the way but without EA's involvement. This comes with a little tease: According to the source, we'll 'never guess' who the studio is. Alongside KOTOR from this mysterious group, Star Wars also has a 'smaller' game coming from EA. One of the games under development is a bounty hunter game, but it could be either EA's smaller game or Ubisoft's open-world one - we'll have to wait and see.

• After Fallen Order in games and The Mandalorian on TV, Star Wars might see a real huge resurgence soon. They've always made for great games thanks to the variety of settings and gameplay mechanics, so this is good news. Hopefully, a remake of Star Wars Demolition will show up.

Cyberpunk Patch 1.1 Introduces Game-Breaking Bug

The first 'big' patch for Cyberpunk 2077, 1.1, includes a ton of fixes for the game and has generally gone down well. Except for introducing a bug that kills progression for that save entirely. A character calls during a quest but doesn't speak, soft locking the game. The only way to remedy this, so far, is to load an earlier save and skip specific dialogue to trigger the 'correct' call.

• It's a shame the first major patch has come with a bug, but perhaps that shows how fast and loose they're working to get the game fixed. Hopefully, that doesn't backfire on them.

Tencent Raising Billions (To Buy A Publisher?)

The Chinese tech conglomerate is rumoured to be aiming for Take-Two or EA. There's not much weight to these rumours currently, given South Korean publishers Nexon or NetMarble are more likely targets, given their existing relationship. However, Tencent definitely have their sights set on the West, having just picked up Klei Entertainment.

• Tencent are purchasing an obscene amount of developers and publishers, purely for the sake of ownership. Their portfolio of Western developers is growing every few months, although they have a good track record of letting them keep creative autonomy - Tencent just want to own them and skim some of those profits.