Arcanaut Studios

Arcanaut Studios is an independent Canadian AAA game-development studio founded in July 2025. Based in Alberta with an additional development presence in British Columbia, the company focuses on high-budget, single-player narrative action role-playing games for PC and console audiences.

The studio was established by game director Casey Hudson, alongside Chris Bain, Cordy Rierson, and Ryan Hoyle. Its leadership team combines creative direction, financial and operational leadership, and technology oversight, drawing on experience in large-scale game development. Arcanaut has assembled talent with backgrounds at studios including BioWare, Epic Games, Ubisoft, Remedy, and ZeniMax.

Debut project

Arcanaut's first announced production is Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a single-player action RPG being developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. Announced at The Game Awards in December 2025, the project is set in the Old Republic era and is described as a spiritual successor to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

The game emphasizes player agency, branching narrative choices, force-alignment morality, and cinematic storytelling. Its development approach includes Unreal Engine 5 technology, real-time visual effects, modular 3D environments, performance capture, facial animation, audio direction, and cinematic production.

Capabilities

Arcanaut's work spans the full development cycle for AAA games, including:

• Game design, software engineering, and production
• Narrative direction, quest design, and scriptwriting
• Character modeling, concept art, and worldbuilding
• Motion capture, performance direction, and cinematics
• External co-development and publishing collaboration management

The studio is actively recruiting as it develops its inaugural title and expands its senior production and development team.