EA and BioWare have officially announced a new Star War: Knights of the Old Republic game at E3 2008. A third KOTOR game has long been rumoured but this is the first confirmation that EA has given on the subject.

The mega-publisher didn't just stop there though, going so far as to confirm that the next KOTOR game will also be a massively multiplayer online RPG - making it the first Star Wars MMO since the ill-fated Galaxies.

Wow, so like, take one of the last few great single-player games and pimp it out, that's, that's nice. Superb. Now you and, like, a million of your pals can save or damn the galaxy simultaneously. That sounds grand.

Oh, and take Obsidian off the roster, you know, the guys that made the game cool, different, and not a Star Wars-themed total-conversion of Baldur's Gate. This is going to be mind-blowing--I'm so excited I can taste the vomit.

Actually, there's one possible saving grace: that this gets the Neverwinter Nights treatment; that it's actually just a single-player game with a buttload of free developer tools for anyone to use. If this doesn't happen, I'm just going to keep playing KOTOR II, most certainly once the Restoration Project wraps up.