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July 2020
ZeniMax Media: Indiana Jones Game for FY22E for Console/PC. Revenue forecast in millions: $230 for FY22E, $55 for FY23E, $25 for FY24E.

January 7, 2021
Pete Hines: "We are planning to announce Project Relic next Tuesday. As a reminder, Project Relic is an original Indiana Jones game (not tied to films) developed by MachineGames and executive produced by Todd Howard, who has been trying to get this game made for over a decade. If you don’t know, Todd might be the biggest Indiana Jones fan on the planet. I’m not exaggerating even a little. Anyone who has seen the pitch has immediately said, oh my God, I have to play that game right now. It’s going to be amazing and we think the reaction to the announcement is going to be terrific."

January 12, 2021
Star Wars: Indiana Jones. We always knew, someday, you’d come walking back through our door. In major news for fans of the cinematic icon, Lucasfilm Games announced today that a new Indiana Jones game will be swinging our way, being developed by the award-winning studio MachineGames and executive produced by game industry icon Todd Howard of Bethesda Games Studios. The game will tell a wholly original, standalone tale set at the height of the career of the famed adventurer. While few details surrounding the Indy game have been revealed, Bethesda Softworks released a cryptic teaser that may hold some clues. Welcome back, Indy. It’s been too long.

January 12, 2021
Bethesda: A new Indiana Jones game with an original story is in development from our studio, Machine Games, and will be executive produced by Todd Howard, in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. It’ll be some time before we have more to reveal, but we’re very excited to share today’s news!

January 12, 2021
MachineGames: We’re developing a new Indiana Jones video game! As huge fans of the franchise, it’s a tremendous honor for us to create a brand-new Indiana Jones game with a completely original story. We’re very excited and can’t wait to share more in the future!

January 12, 2021
Pete Hines: "Todd is a lifelong fan of Indiana Jones. He owns a lot of cool Indiana Jones stuff. He’s not displaying it for anyone’s benefit or because of this announce. He’s just a huge fan of Indiana Jones."

January 12, 2021
Pete Hines: "Todd is a lifelong Indy fan, and has been trying for over a decade to make this game. He’s beyond excited to work with the award-winning MachineGames team, a perfect fit for Indy."

January 13, 2021
Kathleen Kennedy: "As we look to the next 50 years of Lucasfilm, we look forward to continuing the wonderful legacy in games, which has introduced so many memorable characters and stories. These new collaborations will allow the Lucasfilm Games team to pursue fresh and exciting directions in the storytelling of Star Wars and Indiana Jones in imaginative and different ways than those explored by our films."
James Waugh: "What’s been most inspiring about the Indy game in particular is it’s a passion project for Todd Howard. He came in with a point of view and a story that he really believes in."

May 16, 2021
Rik Nieuwdorp: "Lighting artist on currently in production Indiana Jones title. Details will be forthcoming in the future."

November 9, 2021
Todd Howard: "I had met some people at Lucas way back in the day and said I had an Indiana Jones game in my head. I went out to Lucasfilm and I pitched this game, and we almost made it. This was like ten, twelve years ago. Fast forward to kind of current day, I got in a conversation with somebody there that I know, John Drake. I said I have this Indiana Jones game. And he was like, tell me more, is this possible?"

November 10, 2021
Todd Howard: "So they’re making the game, I’m involved creatively, like ‘hey, what’s the game going to be?’ I had this original story and we’ve worked on it sort of together. I spend a little bit of time on it, they’re running with it, they’re doing an amazing job. I’m just happy to lend a hand and be involved."

December 22, 2021
Zen Studios is continuing its partnership with Lucasfilm Games to release Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure as downloadable content for its range of pinball simulations. The DLC recreates the much-loved 1993 Superpin table from Williams, including its music, sound effects, and ruleset. It’s all housed within an accurate digital replica of the table itself. Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure will be released in March 2022 for Pinball FX3 on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. It will come to mobile platforms as paid content for Williams Pinball. The content add-on will also be available for the revamped Pinball FX, which will launch on PC through the Epic Games Store in March, before coming on Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation consoles next summer.

May 20, 2022
Douglas Reilly: "Rather than being a separate division, [Lucasfilm Games is] part of Lucasfilm in a more direct way. We're also working on Indiana Jones and other projects."

June 20, 2022
Pete Hines: "We literally just announced that deal, so you can make your own guesses about how far along that is. They’re in the very, very, very early stages of working on the Indiana Jones game."

June 24, 2022
Jerk Gustafsson: "We are looking quite a lot at Raiders of the Lost Ark when we develop the game. Obviously we look at all the things, we look at the movies, but not only the movies, we look quite a lot at the old games, comic books... We just need to make sure that whatever we do fits with the lore and that we tell a story that works with the lore and that's not in any way in contradiction with the lore."

November 30, 2022
Todd Howard: "Raiders is still my favorite movie of all time, no debate, best movie ever. I had pitched Lucas. Met some people there and pitched them back in ‘09 this Indiana Jones concept, and kinda the deal fell apart. (MachineGames) is the perfect fit for this game with storytelling and how to record it. If you like Indiana Jones it is a definite love letter to Indiana Jones. I mean you can talk about the world of Indiana Jones but it's him, it's the character. I would just say it’s a mash-up. It is a unique, it isn’t one thing intentionally, so it does a lot of different things that we've wanted to do in a game. It's a unique game. A definite love letter to Indiana Jones. MachineGames is the perfect fit for this game, with storytelling and how they record it, doing an incredible job."

December 1, 2022
Jens Andersson: "I’ve now taken the next big step, which is to join MachineGames as Design Director on Indiana Jones. This is also redemption. When I accepted the offer to go to San Francisco in 2009, it was to lead the design on an Indiana Jones game, but that game got cancelled before I even got there. Now, I get a chance to do what I originally hoped to, but this time I get to do it with some of my oldest and best friends. Joining MachineGames is like coming home – amazing people I worked with during Riddick and Darkness, but also teeming with new ones, whose talent daily blow me away. I’m so excited about what we are building, and the way we get to do it – featuring one of most iconic characters ever, in collaboration with my friends at Lucasfilm (hi Craig!), published by one the biggest publishers in the world, and doing it at an amazing studio like MachineGames. This will be something very special."

March 4, 2022
Gia Nguyen: Concept artist, Indiana Jones projects.

February 15, 2023
Steven Chorney: "Last year an Indiana Jones Digital Game was proposed. Here are a few of the numerous concepts that were explored with a well-known ad agency in Hollywood. It could've, should've, would've been fun, but alas, like so many projects that never see the light of day this project was killed (at least with me as illustrator). Reasons unknown."

June 22, 2023
Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley: "Why was Indiana Jones platform availability changed (to exclusive to Xbox)?"
Pete Hines: "The primary one in my view is what I said about reducing risk and trying to get to a degree of certainty. You're dealing with a licensor who's going to have a ton of feedback on what you're making, add a lot of time to your schedule. You're required to provide a release window. You immediately have a clock that's ticking. We liked the idea of bringing it to Game Pass and all the players we could reach there. Before acquisition, we were a small independent publisher. We are not somebody who can afford misses or failures. Being independent and fighting publishers that are multiple times larger than you, we can't afford to miss. We have to stack the deck in our favor."

June 24, 2023
Nick Baker: "Is Indy going to be third person is indeed going to be first person? From what I've heard it's going to be both. Not like Starfield where you get to pick, but there'll be specific sections. Some will be third, some will be first. It's actually a combination of both. There will be first person segments and third person segments. The DM says, it is third person in some parts and first person in others, not switchable."

July 12, 2023
MachineGames: "Congrats to Lucasfilm & Disney on the exciting release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!"

August 24, 2023
Todd Howard is midway through executive producing an Indiana Jones game. "(It’s a) bucket-list thing. (MachineGames has) got the whole Nazi killing thing down, and they’re doing a really great job."

September 6, 2023
Todd Howard: "I am a giant Indiana Jones fan. It can be brought to video games in a unique way. The game is obviously: you’re exploring stuff. It’s about him. So if you’re playing the game, how do you feel that you are indeed playing versus just watching? We’ll talk next year."