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Boxtrick: Ep 102 - Will we ever see Star Wars Battlefront III? With The Flannel Wizard

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Matt opens the show by welcoming Ez, who is introduced with one of his many names before the two settle in. The talk starts with Star Wars fandom in the present tense, after Battlefront II suddenly hit 100,000 concurrent players on Steam and still stayed around 80,000 to 90,000. That surge becomes the doorway into a bigger lore conversation. They treat the game as more than a multiplayer comeback story. The campaign gets the most attention, especially the way it ties into the wider Star Wars timeline through Operation Cinder and the aftermath-era material. Matt and Ez walk through how the game helped fill in what happens after Return of the Jedi, and how later canon projects like The Mandalorian brought some of those ideas back into view. The conversation keeps coming back to Luke Skywalker. Del Mico's encounter with Luke becomes one of the clearest examples of why the campaign stayed with them. They settle on the idea that the game captures a version of Luke that feels wise, calm, and purposeful, and they use that to compare it with other Star Wars storytelling. From there, the episode widens again to the state of Star Wars games and the chance of Battlefront III. They point out that Star Wars has already used games and comics to extend canon, so carrying that thread forward does not feel far fetched. The current fan campaign for Battlefront III feels partly like a joke and partly like a real wish, but it also shows that people still care enough to push for it loudly. By the end, the episode has moved from a player count headline to a case for why the Battlefront name still carries emotional weight, and it closes with gratitude and easy enthusiasm in the same conversational style.

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A Star Wars game discussion that links Battlefront II's Luke material to the push for Battlefront 3.

This episode follows Matt and Ez as they talk through the 2017 Battlefront II surge and why its campaign still lingers, especially in the Luke Skywalker material, Operation Cinder, and the way those threads fold back into canon.

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