Star Wars Jedi: Survivor: everything to know about the next big Star Wars game

polygon.com:

Star WarsJedi: Survivor is the highly anticipated sequel to 2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a critical and commercial success developed by Apex Legendsmaker Respawn Entertainment. It’s easy to see why Fallen Order was a hit; slashing enemies with a custom lightsaber and deploying Force powers against the Emperor’s sinister agents is always good fun.

It also helps that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order gave fans a new and likable hero, Cal Kestis (as well as his sidekick, the droid BD-1), and an intriguing story that expanded the Star Wars canon between the events of the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s launch kicks off a five-week stretch of major video game releases for consoles and PC. Here’s everything you need to know about the next action-adventure in a galaxy far, far away.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is now tabbed for an April 28 launch date. That’s a six-week delay from the March 17 date that Respawn and publisher Electronic Arts originally announced at the beginning of December.

“In order for the team to hit the Respawn quality bar, provide the team the time they need, and achieve the level of polish our fans deserve, we have added six crucial weeks to our release schedule,” game director Stig Asmussen said when the game was delayed.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X. The game is available online from the consoles’ marketplaces, Steam, the Epic Games Store, and EA’s Origin store.

Unlike Fallen Order, Survivor will not be released on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One.

Through its EA Play subscription for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, Electronic Arts offers 10-hour pre-release trials of some, but not all, of its new launches (typically, these