EA developing an open world Star Wars game for next-gen consoles

Last week we heard that EA Games had no plans to use any of the existing or future Star Wars movies as a basis for a video game set in the galaxy far, far away and now comes word that EA Canada is currently developing an open world Star Wars game for next generation consoles.

According to a job listing discovered by Kotaku"EA Canada is looking for an experienced Animation director to help define and deliver on the vision for a major new next gen open world action game." At this point, no other details are known, although it's been suggested that the game could be a collaboration between EA Canada and Visceral Games.

The open world game isn't the only Star Wars project set to arrive on Xbox One and PS4, with an eagerly-anticipated next-gen version of Star Wars: Battlefront in development at DICE.