‘UNCHARTED’ writer Amy Henning is now new ‘STAR WARS’ game’s creative director

I’m going to go ahead and say this now. Write it in digital stone. The next Star Wars game is going to rule. Drawing inspiration from the Batman: Arkham Games. Being spearheaded by Amy Hennig. This is fucking awesome.

Former Naughty Dog writer Amy Hennig is now at Visceral Games, under EA, as creative director on the studio’s Star Wars project.

“Over the last few weeks, Amy and I have spent a lot of time talking about what her first project would be,” Visceral VP Steve Papoutsis writes. “There are a lot of different directions we could have gone, but I could sense that what really excited her about this opportunity (because let’s face it, we weren’t the only ones knocking at her door) was Star Wars. Amy’s a huge fan. We happen to be making a Star Wars game. Just thinking about the possibilities made both of us even more excited about having her join the team.”

Hennig was the writer and creative director on three Uncharted games, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. She was believed to be working on the PS4 Uncharted game, but she left Naughty Dog early in March. [Joystiq]