Disney-owned LucasArts reveals a free-to-play Star Wars game called
Star Wars: Attack
Squadrons in development for Windows PCs at Area 52 games. A
preliminary website for
the game is online, offering the following elevator pitch: "
Star Wars:
Attack Squadrons is a free-to-play online space combat game where players
customize iconic
Star Wars ships and engage in high-velocity 16 player
dogfights in fabled
Star Wars locations. There is also a "join the beta"
button that doesn't seem to work right now, which suggests testing will begin soon.
There's also a post about this
on IGN with
a cinematic reveal trailer.