To say that the story of EA's time with the Star Wars license has been a controversial one would be... putting things lightly. Disney kicked things off by decimating LucasArts, before cancelling the hotly anticipated Star Wars: 1313 altogether, and when EA decided to reboot Star Wars: Battlefront with Battlefield architects DICE at the helm, things did not go swimmingly.
The game was criticised for a lack of content, and its sequel - although on the rise once more - was dealt a heavy blow by controversy surrounding its microtransactions. All this, just after development was scrapped on Visceral Games' single-player title, which would've been helmed by Uncharted alum Amy Hennig.
But all is not lost for the Star Wars license. Titanfall developers Respawn are working on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and though we're yet to see anything - really - regarding the game, a 2019 release is still possible.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
