Disney, EA strike understanding on ‘Star Wars’ video games
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Disney has announced a multi-year understanding with Electronic Arts that grants a video diversion publisher rights to rise and tell video games formed on a classical science-fiction authorization Star Wars. Financial terms were not disclosed.
EA would have rights to rise Star Wars titles for a “core gaming audience” opposite all interactive platforms, says a corner matter from both companies. Disney would keep a right to emanate certain games for mobile, social, inscription and online.
“Every developer dreams of formulating games for a Star Wars universe,” says Frank Gibeau, boss of EA Labels, in a statement.
Gibeau says studios DICE (Battlefield), Visceral Games (Dead Space) and BioWare (Mass Effect) will all rise Star Wars titles. BioWare already has knowledge with a Star Wars star by massively multiplayer online titles such as Knights of a Old Republic and The Old Republic.
“The new practice we emanate might steal from films, though a games will be wholly strange with all new stories and gameplay,” says Gibeau.
The proclamation comes one month after Disney close down longtime studio LucasArts in preference of a chartering indication involving Star Wars and other properties.
Several projects, including a movement pretension Star Wars 1313, had been halted, according to a LucasFilm representative.
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