The force is clever with EA. Or it will be shortly enough.

Electronic Arts and The Walt Disney Corporation announced on Monday a new, multi-year chartering agreement, permitting EA to rise and globally tell games formed on Star Wars, each nerd’s favorite authorization (Trekkies aside, that is).

“The sorcery of Star Wars is interwoven into a worlds, characters, planets and extraordinary battles. It is a star that lends itself ideally to gaming,” pronounced EA Labels President Frank Gibeau in a blog post. “Our agreement unlocks a whole new destiny of Star Wars games that will camber consoles, PCs, tablets, mobile and more.”

As we might remember, Disney acquired Lucasfilm final autumn for a whopping $4 billion, bringing into a overlay all of a company’s properties — including LucasArts, a now-defunct gaming studio which Disney close down a few months after appropriation Lucasfilm.

LucasArts was in a midst of building a series of Star Wars titles when it was shuttered, including Star Wars 1313 — a Boba Fett-focused diversion currently in limbo — and Star Wars: First Assault. Disney pronounced during a time it would instead be chartering a Star Wars properties out to other studios.

DICE and Visceral, dual EA-operated studios, will start to emanate new Star Wars games “spanning all interactive platforms,” while BioWare — a studio behind dual of EA’s many renouned Star Wars games — will also continue to rise games from a renouned franchise.

Disney, a association said, will continue to reason certain rights for building mobile, amicable and tablet-based Star Wars games.

“This agreement demonstrates a joining to formulating peculiarity diversion practice that expostulate a recognition of a Star Wars authorization for years to come,” pronounced John Pleasants, co-President of Disney Interactive, in a statement.