The Knights of the Old Republic Remake is either dead or about to become more powerful than you can possibly imagine
Friends, I'm beginning to worry that we might not ever see the Knights of the Old Republic remake at all. It may have made a splash at its announcement during a 2021 PlayStation showcase, but it's been hanging on by a thread ever since a vertical slice demo—meant to show off all the game's features in a bitesize package—reportedly went down like a lead balloon in front of LucasFilm and Sony execs back in July 2022. It was "delayed indefinitely," and its development was moved to an unspecified «internal» studio at Embracer Group (possibly to Aspyr parent company Saber Interactive, per a Bloomberg report).
Well, the latest news isn't good, I'm afraid. As was first spotted by intrepid Reddit users on the Gaming Leaks and Rumours subreddit (via Kotaku), Sony appears to be on a quest to Order 66 any mention of the project on its various social media channels. The original short teaser for the remake has been set to private on PlayStation's YouTube channel, and a Twitter user named Crusader3456 later noticed that a nearly every tweet advertising the remake from 2021 has been mysteriously deleted from the PlayStation Twitter account.
The only remaining tweet that even mentions the KOTOR remake on PlayStation's Twitter is <a href=«https://twitter.com/search?q=knights%20of%20the%20old%20republic%20from%3Aplaystation&src=typed_query» target="_blank" data-url=«https://twitter.com/search?q=knights%20of%20the%20old%20republic%20from%3Aplaystation&src=» https:>a single entry
from the day of the 2021 showcase, where it was mentioned alongside God of War Ragnarok and «other new PlayStation Studios titles». Over on YouTube, the trailer still exists as part of PlayStation's video of the entire 2021 showcase—the company hasn't gone so far
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