What’s New: Intel today announced it is the exclusive CPU launch partner for the much-anticipated game Star Wars™ Outlaws, releasing in 2024. Both Intel and Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio – have been hard at work behind the scenes to ensure PC gamers get the best possible experience at launch on their Intel® Core™ 14th Gen HX-Series mobile and S-Series desktop powered-systems, which include new Intel hybrid CPU optimizations for the Snowdrop game engine powering Star Wars Outlaws.
“This is a huge partnership for Intel, being able to combine the power and performance of our latest-gen Intel Core 14th Gen processors with the gaming excellence that Massive Entertainment is renowned for. Star Wars remains one of the most iconic cultural touchstones for PC gamers around the world and combined with the world’s best gaming performance and robust platform features of our latest Intel® Core™ HX-Series mobile processors and S-Series desktop processors (14th Gen), we’re looking forward to making the best possible experience with Star Wars Outlaws an Intel-powered one.”
With development led by Massive Entertainment in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars Outlaws will invite players to experience the Star Wars galaxy like never before through an original story set between Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. As the Galactic Empire relentlessly pursues the final defeat of the Rebel Alliance, the criminal underworld thrives. Fans will play as cunning scoundrel Kay Vess and her loyal companion Nix, as they attempt one of the greatest heists the Outer Rim has ever seen. Seeking the means to start a new life, players will join Kay and Nix as they fight, steal, and outwit their way through the galaxy’s crime syndicates and join the galaxy’s most wanted. (Credit: Massive Entertainment - a Ubisoft Studio)
Gaming starts with Intel, powered by Intel Core 14th Gen HX-Series mobile and S-Series desktop processors. Intel Core 14th Gen mainstream desktop processors – Intel’s expansion of the Intel Core 14th Gen desktop stack – gives mainstream PC users and businesses across various vertical markets new ways to experience the performance of Intel’s latest-gen desktop processors. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Gaming starts with Intel, powered by Intel Core 14th Gen HX-Series mobile and S-Series desktop processors. Intel Core 14th Gen HX-series mobile processors are built for gamers, creators and professionals who need the highest levels of compute performance and require the mobility a laptop provides. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Why It Matters: Star Wars Outlaws is an ambitious PC title, debuting as the first-ever open world Star Wars game – a major milestone for one of the longest running franchises in PC gaming history. Massive Entertainment has built a track record developing open world games on PC, and Intel has provided both hardware and software support, including Intel engineers who are collaborating on optimizing the game so that gamers can get the best experience out of Star WarsOutlaws on their PCs powered by the new Intel Core HX-Series mobile processors and S-Series desktop processors (14th Gen). This includes working with Ubisoft engineers to optimize the Snowdrop engine, powering Star Wars Outlaws on Intel Core 14th Gen processors, improving CPU scheduling to fully utilize the processing power of Intel’s hybrid architecture and optimizing workload scheduling to unlock the full performance headroom of processors for the best possible PC gaming experiences. Additionally, Intel users can enjoy CPU performance scaling to deliver incredible single- and multi-thread performance, ensuring an incredible gaming experience across the Intel Core 14th Gen family of products.
“Working with Intel on Star Wars Outlaws has been an amazing experience. Intel understands that performance, and more importantly the experience it powers, is critical to enabling the best PC experience of the game possible,” said Tobias Carlsson, technical director at Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio. “We’ve been hard at work with Intel to ensure that gamers are going to get a world-class experience when they’re exploring the Outer Rim in Star Wars Outlaws on their PC.”
What Gamers Should Look For: Starting today, gamers can take advantage of a special promotion. Gamers upgrading to the new Intel Core 14th Gen HX-Series mobile processors and S-Series desktop processors will receive a copy of Star Wars Outlaws.
This promotion is available across a range of newly released gaming laptops from partners, including Dell Alienware, Lenovo Legion, HP Omen, Acer Predator, ASUS ROG, MSI and Razer – all powered by Intel’s fastest-ever gaming processor.
Gamers will receive a digital copy of Star Wars Outlaws on qualifying purchases made April 9, 2024, through July 31, 2024, and can redeem and download the game until Sept. 15, 2024. For more information on eligible products and participating partners please visit the Software Advantage website.
For more information on Intel’s partnership with Star Wars Outlaws or the range of Intel Core 14th Gen processors, visit the Star Wars Outlaws promo website.
For more information on Star Wars Outlaws, Intel encourages gamers to visit the game’s official website for updates and insights ahead of launch.
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About Star Wars Outlaws
With development led by Massive Entertainment in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars Outlaws will invite players to experience the Star Wars galaxy like never before through an original story set between Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back™ and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi™. As the Galactic Empire relentlessly pursues the final defeat of the Rebel Alliance, the criminal underworld thrives. Fans will play as cunning scoundrel Kay Vess and her loyal companion Nix, as they attempt one of the greatest heists the Outer Rim has ever seen. Seeking the means to start a new life, players will join Kay and Nix as they fight, steal, and outwit their way through the galaxy’s crime syndicates and join the galaxy’s most wanted.
Kay and Nix can turn any situation to their advantage: use stealth and gadgets to gain the upper hand, use Nix to distract and draw away enemies, or engage in blaster combat in tense situations throughout their journey. In order to pull off the ultimate heist, Kay and Nix will search for and join forces with a cast of outlaws, including battle-hardened droid ND-5. While stealing valuable goods, infiltrating secret locations, and outwitting enemies, they will need to carefully consider how their choices affect their status with each syndicate, as each move will influence Kay’s ever-changing reputation.