(Image credit: Arcanaut Studios) One of the bigger showings at The Game Awards 2025 was the surprise reveal of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a successor to the beloved Knights of the Old Republic series being developed under the leadership of original KotOR director Casey Hudson at a new studio staffed with other BioWare veterans . A year after the project's announcement, we now know how Arcanaut Studios is paying the bills. Bloomberg reports that Fate of the Old Republic is being funded by investment from GreaterThan Group, a new holding company launched by former NetEase president of global investments and partnerships, Simon Zhu. Simon Zhu, GreaterThan Group founder and former NetEase president of global investments and partnerships. (Image credit: Simon Zhu) After 13 years of negotiating NetEase funding deals for Devolver, Marvel Snap developer Second Dinner, the Chinese release of Sky: Children of the Light, and more, Zhu left the Chinese tech goliath in 2025 .…