Swedish game studio channels fandom in ‘Star Wars Outlaw’

Julian Gerighty, Creative Director Massive Entertainment, speaks about ‘Star Wars Outlaws’ at the Ubisoft Forward 2024 showcase presentation at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, California on June 10. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP

From Yoda figurines to Lego stormtrooper helmets, Star Wars is everywhere around the Massive Entertainment video game studio that’s about to unveil a hotly anticipated title drawn from George Lucas’s iconic franchise.Hundreds of developers spent years making Star Wars Outlaws, a process the Malmo, Sweden-based studio’s executives say took them from mere fans to craftspeople...