Prior to its arrival back in 2024, Star Wars Outlaws showed plenty of promise, with the first open-world game in the franchise being developed by Massive Entertainment of The Division fame. Unfortunately, its launch was met with somewhat mixed reviews, owing in part to a well-trodden formula alongside plenty of gameplay-related frustrations. While the title wound up receiving two major DLCs of note, insiders have claimed that Ubisoft originally planned to release as many as 6 pieces of post-launch content – before ultimately being cancelled.

As reported by known Star Wars leaker FivesWalker, Ubisoft’s somewhat ill-fated Star Wars Outlaws was originally set to receive far more support than it ended up getting, taking to Twitter to claim:

“Star Wars outlaws was expected to be WAY more successful [than] it ended up being. Originally there were 6 DLCs planned, with one of them being a direct tie in with the novel. And yes, there was even a sequel planned.”

The last point was already known, with reports back in 2025 revealing the cancellation of Outlaws’ sequel. That said, the claims of 6 DLCs is new, and so it is interesting to see just how early Ubisoft ended up pulling the plug on the entire project.

For context, Star Wars Outlaws released back in 2024 to an average reception and relatively poor sales. While the game did see quite a bit of post-launch support in the way of gameplay, stealth and other miscellaneous improvements, its core still very much felt like an open world Ubisoft experience – for better or for worse.

Outlaws would wind up seeing two DLCs released during its lifetime: Wild Card and A Pirate’s Fortune. If ‘FivesWalker’ is to be believed then the publisher had far more plans for the title initially.

What these would have entailed is unknown, but given Ubisoft’s track-record, it probably would have mostly been more of the same. Still, for fans of Outlaws this likely comes as quite the disappointment.

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One of the biggest announcements during Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase was the official unveiling of Senua – the 3rd entry in Ninja Theory’s Hellblade series. While a welcome surprise, many fans were then wondering what has become of the studio’s previously-teased Project Mara. Unfortunately, according to the team, they “took the decision to not work on that any further.”

Taking part in a lengthy interview via the Xbox Wire blog, Ninja Theory’s studio head Dom Matthews was asked about the upcoming Senua, their reasons for not going with the title Hellblade 3 and the renewed focus on combat and gameplay.

In amongst these discussions, Matthews took time to speak on Project Mara. For the uninitiated, this was pitched back in 2020 as a horror experience focused around “real-world and grounded representation of mental terror”. At the time, Ninja theory shared two teasers: one being a more traditional sneak peek and the other being a developer diary.

Unfortunately, Project Mara has since been scrapped, with Matthews confirming “with the fact that we have the entire team working on [Senua], I suspect some people might ask what’s happened to Project Mara […] I took the decision to not work on that any further.”

Matthews continued, “These decisions are never easy, but I did so to take the opportunity to have all of the talent and expertise in the studio, all 85 creatives, working together to realize the potential of what Senua can be.”

While a disappointing conclusion, hopefully this does mean that Senua will represent Ninja Theory’s best work in a decade (at the very least on the gameplay front).

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