Veteran developer and the director behind the upcoming Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, Casey Hudson, has dismissed rumours that players will have to wait years for the new game’s release.

While Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier suggested that a release by 2030 “is an *optimistic* guess” given Hudson’s studio, Arcanaut, was only founded in July, Hudson was quick to correct the record.

“Don’t worry about the “not till 2030″ rumours,” Hudson said on X/Twitter. “Game will be out before then. I’m not getting any younger!”

The new Star Wars single-player RPG was revealed at The Game Awards just days after rumours swirled that a new KOTOR game could be on the way.

Now confirmed as a spiritual successor to BioWare’s Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic hails from Arcanaut Studios and Casey Hudson, who was director of BioWare’s Star Wars game and Mass Effect. It’s set to be “an epic interactive adventure across a galaxy on the brink of rebirth where every decision shapes your path towards light or darkness”.

“When we developed the original KOTOR, we wanted to create a definitive Star Wars experience – crafting an adventure that consisted of all the things we dreamed of doing as Star Wars fans,” Hudson said when the game was announced.

“Now, 25 years after we started work on that game, our aspirations are equally ambitious. Fate of the Old Republic represents an opportunity to explore a contemporary vision of a definitive Star Wars experience, using state-of-the-art technology and game design, and an all-new story crafted specifically to deliver on the combination of player agency and immersion in Star Wars that was at the heart of KOTOR.”