Disney and Electronic Arts cut an disdainful understanding for multi-year Star Wars diversion …
6 views - published on May 9th, 2013 in Disney News tagged deals, Disney, disney dealsElectronic Arts (EA) and The Walt Disney Company have announced a multi-year video diversion agreement for a Star Wars franchise. The understanding will concede EA to rise and tell new Star Wars titles opposite mixed interactive platforms. No financial terms of a understanding were disclosed.
Disney Interactive’s Co-President John Pleasants pronounced in a statement: “This agreement demonstrates a joining to formulating peculiarity diversion practice that expostulate a recognition of the Star Wars franchise for years to come. 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.”
Under a terms of a agreement, EA has a rights to rise and tell Star Wars games, though Disney will keep a rights to also rise new titles within a mobile, social, tablet, and online diversion categories.
EA Labels President Frank Gibeau says that 3 of a studios, BioWare, DICE, and Gibeau, will be operative on producing a new games.
This is a one of a initial diversion chartering deals that Disney has done following a purchase of a Star Wars franchise from Lucas Arts studio behind in Oct 2012. Months later, a media hulk wound adult shuttering a studio. Last month, Disney pronounced that it will concentration on chartering a diversion properties instead.
Publishing Star Wars games isn’t new to Electronic Arts. It has been concerned in a mythological array for a while, including Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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