The Game Awards 2025 gave us plenty of juicy reveals, but few were as surprising as Star Wars: Galactic Racer, a spiritual successor of sorts to Episode I: Racer and the overlooked Racer Revenge. It looked stunning, but fans had one fear following its reveal: there were no old-school podracers to be found in the trailer.
While that last-second Sebulba tease already rekindled our hopes and dreams, Fuse Games CEO and co-founder Matt Webster has now confirmed podracing will return alongside all sorts of other vehicles: “You can’t really make a Star Wars racing experience and not have podracing, can you? The core fantasy of the game is becoming an elite racing pilot in the Galactic League, and podracing is a pinnacle of speed and racing in the Star Wars galaxy,” the Criterion vet told GamesRadar following the exciting reveal.
The question now is whether an older Sebulba, Anakin Skywalker’s first nemesis, is the exception among a highly varied roster of racers or he’ll be joined by other known faces that we saw in The Phantom Menace’s lengthy Boonta Eve Classic scene. Galactic Racer takes place after the fall of the Empire, so it’s been decades since podracing’s glory days, but it’s time to speak up, Ben Quadinaros stans.
What we know for sure is that Fuse Games was looking to reinvent Star Wars racing games without forgetting about their legacy: “We wanted to do more – to lean into multiple vehicle types and multiple expressions of speed to give players a breadth of experiences. Galactic Racer offers players the ability to pilot vehicles they know and love, alongside ones they won’t have experienced before, across a range of solo and multiplayer modes.” The mention of several solo and multiplayer modes is interesting here, as we’d only read about a unique runs-based “story-driven campaign” and regular PvP multiplayer via the materials released so far.
As much as we’d love to know more, it’s likely we won’t be hearing from Fuse Games for a while following Galactic Racer’s big announcement, as the studio is now focusing on getting it ready for a tentative 2026 launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, but with Burnout and Need for Speed pedigree, we have a really good feeling about this.
