EA's open-world Star Wars game canned in favour of smaller project

EA has cancelled its big open-world Star Wars game in favour of a smaller Star Wars project that's due sooner.

The game in question was the one being developed by EA Vancouver. It was code-named Orca, Kotaku reported last night, and was still in its early stages.

Orca was being built from the ashes of another EA-cancelled effort - the Amy Hennig Star Wars game code-named Ragtag. EA's plan had been to take some elements of Ragtag and use them in Orca to make a more trendy-sounding open-world effort.

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