Recently we found out what many video diversion fans had been fearing: Disney was going to close down LucasArts, a bend of Lucasfilm that grown and published games, including many Star Wars diversion array such as Battlefront, Knights of a Old Republic, and The Force Unleashed.

Though Disney had selected to close down a gamemaker, it was transparent that they weren’t usually going to stop focusing on video games, and that their devise relocating brazen would be to permit out their games to other diversion companies to to make and publish.

Fans had a wishlist of where their favorite diversion authorization competence land, though Disney instead chose to go in a instruction many of we competence have approaching them to go. Enter Electronic Arts, one of a biggest video diversion publishers on a planet, who usually sealed an disdainful multi-year understanding with Disney.

The new understanding will see EA creation many new Star Wars diversion on all platforms and in several genres, while Disney will continue to reason a rights to make mobile, social, tablet, and online games.

What’s not nonetheless famous is what games EA will be making. Many people have been wondering about Star Wars 1313, that done a huge impact during E3 final year though looked to be zero though a plant of a Disney acquisition. Will EA finally do something that will make fans happy and safeguard this one sees a light of day? There’s also been rumors of a Battlefront first-person shooter (that seems like it would be ideal for EA’s Battlefield developer DICE) and Battlefront III as well, so usually time will tell.

EA’s entrance off their second consecutive “Worst Company In America” win, so apparently everybody who cares about a destiny of Star Wars video games is possibly really angry, sad, or shaken right now. It’s value observant that EA is behind BioWare’s Mass Effect franchise, and, while there were some things that barbarous fans over a march of a trilogy, a ME games are some of a best we’ve seen in a past decade. There is still wish that EA could do good things here.

Another thing estimable of note, is that other games from LucasArts are not mentioned here. This appears to be a privately Star Wars deal, that could meant that Disney is still looking for homes for non-Star Wars franchises they have such as a Monkey Island games or Indiana Jones.

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