Star Wars: Galactic Racer Announced, From Former Burnout and Need For Speed Developers | The Game Awards 2025
A brand new Star Wars racing game has been announced, from the makers of Burnout and Need for Speed.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is the first from Fuse Games, the studio founded in 2023 by former co-founders and lead developers at Criterion, the EA-owned veteran British outfit behind some of gaming’s most beloved racers, such as Burnout Paradise and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.
With Criterion itself now gobbled up as part of Battlefield Studios, the team at Fuse Games has set its sights on a galaxy far, far away, for a rather different kind of racing experience that looks like a fresh take on Star Wars podracing, with landspeeders, speeder bikes, and other sci-fi vehicles.
Various race tracks were glimpsed in the debut trailer, including an area that looked a lot like the desert planet of Jakku, home to the Star Wars sequel trilogy’s Rey. And indeed, the game is set after the Empire’s fall.
“Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a runs-based, high-stakes reinvention of racing born in the lawless Outer Rim of the Star Wars galaxy,” an official blurb reads. “With the Empire gone and the galaxy rebuilding, The Galactic League is formed: an underground, unsanctioned circuit where syndicates bankroll chaos and champions are forged. “No Force. No prophecy. Just skill, strategy, and the will to rise.”
Announced tonight at The Game Awards 2025, the project will be published by Secret Mode, the newly-independent publisher that previously handled Still Wakes the Deep. As for a release date, we only know it’s coming in 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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