https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/28/17515014/amy-henning-ea-star-wars-update

Game developer Amy Hennig told Eurogamer today that she departed Electronic Arts back in January, just a few months after the publisher effectively canceled her team’s Star Wars project to make significant changes to the game.

Hennig, who previously worked at Naughty Dog on the Uncharted franchise, joined EA’s Visceral Games studio in 2014 to work on a Star Wars game. That project was shown only in teaser form at EA’s E3 2016 press conference. In October 2017, EA executive vice president Patrick Söderlund announced that the publisher was shutting down Visceral and “pivoting” the design of its Star Wars game from a linear, story-based adventure “to be a broader experience that allows for more variety and player agency.” In other words, the new Star Wars game, coming from EA Vancouver and EA’s worldwide studios, will be an open-world adventure.