Disney and Electronic Arts Ink Deal for New ‘Star Wars’ Games
3 views - published on May 7th, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney star wars, movies, star warsThe Walt Disney Company is prepping a new line of Star Wars video games only a month after shuttering prior publisher LucasArts.
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In a Monday proclamation with Electronic Arts Inc., a association firmed adult skeleton to rise and tell new games formed on a characters and storylines of a Lucasfilm franchise. Disney, that acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in October, is now reading a subsequent Star Wars film for a 2015 release.
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“This agreement demonstrates a fasten to formulating peculiarity diversion practice that expostulate a recognition of a Star Wars authorization for years to come,” pronounced Disney Interactive co-president John Pleasants. “Collaborating with one of a world’s premier diversion developers will concede us to move an extraordinary portfolio of new Star Wars titles to a fans around a world.”
EA will rise and tell a new titles, with skeleton for all interactive platforms and diversion genres. Disney retains rights to rise gaming titles for a possess mobile, social, inscription and online diversion categories. Financial terms of a agreement were not disclosed.
“Every developer dreams of formulating games for a Star Wars universe,” pronounced EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau. “Three of a tip studios will perform that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans. DICE and Visceral will furnish new games, fasten a BioWare group that continues to rise for a Star Wars franchise. The new practice we emanate might steal from films, though a games will be wholly strange with all new stories and gameplay.”
Star Wars has constructed dozens of video diversion titles, dating behind to a initial Atari bid tied to The Empire Strikes Back in 1982.