{"id":369161,"date":"2026-05-19T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=418776"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:56:53","slug":"the-new-star-wars-game-and-the-one-from-the-call-of-duty-designer-have-something-in-common-a-mysterious-company-funding-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-new-star-wars-game-and-the-one-from-the-call-of-duty-designer-have-something-in-common-a-mysterious-company-funding-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Star Wars game and the one from the Call of Duty designer have something in common: a mysterious company funding them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Star Wars has a new RPG in the works. Although its release date is still a long way off, its announcement at the recent 2025 Game Awards caused quite a stir. And it was for good reason. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a sequel to the beloved RPG saga Knights of the Old Republic, created by Bioware, which was a huge success during the 2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In turn, <\/strong>the creative designer of Call of Duty<strong>: Black Ops, David Vonderhaar, has opened a studio called BulletFarm where he aims to create a spiritual successor to the popular game from the Activision Blizzard franchise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An unknown company, but less than it seems<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do these two games have in common? At first glance, nothing. We don&#8217;t know where the funding for either of them comes from. Until now. <strong>Because it has been discovered that<\/strong> the one financing the games of both studios <strong>is GreaterThanGroup<\/strong>, a business conglomerate previously unknown. But it is led by someone who is not unknown at all: Simon Zhu.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic Teaser Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lAmkl1jL0fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the name doesn&#8217;t ring a bell, that&#8217;s normal. Simon Zhu was the president of NetEase until he left the company in 2025. <strong>During this time, he has been working to raise capital through investors to create his own company, GreaterThanGroup, where he can work freely on developing the games he believes in<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not that Zhu lacks experience precisely. He is behind recent successes like Marvel Rivals or Where Winds Meet, demonstrating that he has a good eye for spotting trends.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And starting with designers of beloved franchises like Star Wars and the <\/strong>designers of Black Ops shows that it not only aims<strong>to target the Asian audience but also to conquer the Western audience<\/strong>. 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Although its release date is still a long way off, its announcement at the recent 2025 Games Awards caused a great stir. And it was for good reason. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a sequel to the beloved RPG saga Knights of the Old Republic, created by Bioware, which was a hit during the 2000s. At the same time, the creative designer of Call of Duty: Black Ops, David Vonderhaar, has opened a studio called BulletFarm where he will create a spiritual successor to the popular game in the franchise [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":369162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[7428,1501,26146,26147,2106,26148,26149,5788,26150,6403,1102,26151,1455,19491,26152],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-369161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-7428","tag-black-ops","tag-bulletfarm","tag-caballeros-de-la-antigua-republica","tag-call-of-duty-black-ops","tag-call-of-duy","tag-david-vonderhaar","tag-games-awards","tag-greathertangroup","tag-marvel-rivals","tag-rpg","tag-simon-zhu","tag-star-wars","tag-star-wars-fate-of-the-old-republic","tag-where-winds-met","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369174,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369161\/revisions\/369174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369161"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=369161"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=369161"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=369161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}