Disney Considers Bungie for a New Star Wars Battlefront Game

Disney is reportedly exploring development partners for a new Star Wars Battlefront game, with Bungie and EA DICE emerging as potential candidates. The rumor surfaced on October 19, 2026, through a report read by journalist Jeff Grubb on Giant Bomb's Game Mess Mornings podcast, although no official project announcement has been made.

The report suggests that renewed interest in Star Wars Battlefront 2 has encouraged Lucasfilm to consider continuing the shooter franchise. However, the game's development status remains uncertain, and neither Disney nor the potential studios has been confirmed as having secured the project.

The information originated from Quarterman, a pseudonym used by a former Electronic Gaming Monthly news editor. Grubb read the claims from a new issue associated with the Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium, a publishing project funded through Kickstarter.

According to the magazine's rumor column, Disney sees continued player engagement with Battlefront 2 as a reason to pursue another installment.

"Disney has big plans for the Star Wars Battlefront series," Jeff Grubb said, reading from the magazine's report.

The column points to the sequel's sustained popularity and suggests that Lucasfilm is searching for a studio capable of developing a follow-up. It identifies EA DICE, which produced the two modern Battlefront games, as the expected candidate while presenting Bungie as an alternative.

Quarterman's report describes Lucasfilm's search for a developer and identifies the studios being considered.

"The suits at Lucasfilm have been aggressively deploying probe droids looking for a development partner to take on the task of creating a follow-up. So far, no one has fully stepped up, but yours truly is hearing two major game studios are circling the project like a couple of snow speeders, led by the completely unsurprising EA DICE, who we can hope learn from their loot box lesson. There is another. The Qman hears that if the Force is not entrusted to DICE, it could land at none other than Halo, Destiny, and Marathon developer Bungie," Quarterman wrote in the magazine's rumor column, as read by Grubb.

Grubb cautioned that the project does not appear to have entered development. The available information points instead to preliminary discussions about which studio might take responsibility for the game.

"It doesn't sound like the game is in the works yet, but it does sound like there are conversations at the very least about who should take it on," Jeff Grubb said.

EA DICE released Star Wars Battlefront in 2015 for PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. Its 2017 sequel expanded the playable setting to include the Clone Wars and the sequel trilogy era, building on the original game's focus on locations, characters, and vehicles from George Lucas' original trilogy.

The franchise also has an earlier history. LucasArts and Pandemic released two similarly titled games in the 2000s, while a planned third installment from Free Radical Design was canceled. Incomplete, unauthorized versions of that canceled project have subsequently circulated.

Electronic Arts' exclusive license to develop Star Wars games expired in 2023, opening the door for other studios to pursue projects in the franchise. EA nevertheless continues to work on another Star Wars Jedi game with Respawn Entertainment.

Bungie is currently working on Marathon and supporting Destiny 2. The studio also released Renegades, a Star Wars-themed Destiny 2 expansion, in December 2025, giving it experience working with the franchise's universe.

Neither Bungie nor EA DICE has been officially confirmed as the developer of a new Battlefront game. The rumor remains unverified, and the available reporting does not establish whether Disney has approved production or selected a development partner.