The force is weak within them.

Blogger Surfer Girl, known for her eerily accurate predictions and leaks providing insight into the Games Industry, has predicted that SOE's Star Wars Galaxies will shut down within a year of the release of the upcoming Star Wars MMOG (which she leaked in an earlier post).

Some more about the last two words of this blog's title. Star Wars Galaxies will shut down within a year after the release of the new MMO. The Artistic Lucases think that they have the only IP that can pose a serious challenge World of Warcraft and find that the setting of KOTOR is too niche to be a threat. They apparently expect the new Star War MMO to have at least three million subscribers by the end of the first year. As previously mentioned, some Edmonton studio is doing some Star Wars RPG about some knights in some old republic.

Read it for yourself at Surfer Girl Reviews Star Wars, and the join the discussion.