Here’s a other shoe dropping after new Star Wars owners Disney shuttered LucasArts, a video diversion writer that had been behind a infancy of games associated to George Lucas’ Star Wars franchise. At a time of that proclamation — that enclosed laying off some-more than 150 employees — Disney pronounced it designed to use a chartering model. EA already has worked in this business before, formulating Star Wars: The Old Republic.

BURBANK and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 6, 2013 — The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) and Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) currently announced a new multi-year disdainful chartering agreement to rise and tell globally new games formed on Star Wars characters and storylines.

Under a agreement, EA will rise and tell new Star Wars titles for a core gaming audience, travelling all interactive platforms and a many renouned diversion genres, while Disney will keep certain rights to rise new titles within a mobile, social, inscription and online diversion categories.

“This agreement demonstrates a fasten 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. “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.”

“Every developer dreams of formulating games for a Star Wars universe,” pronounced EA Labels President 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.”

Financial terms of a agreement were not disclosed.

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