The Force is now with Electronic Arts.

The second largest videogame publisher has sealed down an disdainful multi-year understanding to furnish “Star Wars” games for all platforms.

Deal comes a month after Lucasfilm laid off many of a growth and prolongation staff during LucasArts, that oversaw “Star Wars” and other games.

While Disney has pronounced it will concentration many of a interactive business on games for mobile apps and amicable networks like Facebook, “Star Wars” is being treated as an wholly opposite animal.

New games will be formed on “Star Wars” characters and storylines for what a companies call “a core gaming audience” — which, in this case, means mostly group in their 30s.

Disney will keep certain rights to rise new titles for a mobile, social, inscription and online diversion categories directed during younger auds. First games will expected be prepared someday in 2015, around a recover of J.J. Abrams’ “Star Wars: Episode VII.”

“This agreement demonstrates a joining 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.”

EA isn’t new to a “Star Wars” franchise.

It published BioWare’s “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It was a many costly diversion constructed when it launched in 2011, with a $150 million pricetag, though has struggled to beget a vast fanbase. It has given embraced a free-to-play indication rather than rest on monthly subscriptions.

Although financial terms of a understanding were not disclosed, Disney clearly found a gamemaker fervent to bombard out a large chartering price to secure a “Star Wars” authorization and assistance grow a business that’s struggled in new years.

LucasArts warranted only $55 million mostly from a “Star Wars” titles, according to NPD. Last month, LucasArts pulled a block on “Star Wars 1313,” while “Star Wars: First Assault” was canceled before that. Deal enables Disney’s interactive group to concentration on other internally grown tentpole titles like a arriving “Disney Infinity,” that mixes toys with normal videogame-play.

DICE and Visceral will furnish new games, while BioWare will continue to concentration on “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” pronounced EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau. EA’s website already is seeking “Star Wars” fans to advise ideas for new games. “We have lots of ideas, though we wish to hear from you,” it said.

DICE is best famous for a work on EA’s “Battlefield” franchise, that competes with Activision’s “Call of Duty” games, while Visceral is behind a sci-fi fear array “Dead Space.”

“Every developer dreams of formulating games for a ‘Star Wars’ universe,” Gibeau said. “The new practice we emanate might steal from films, though a games will be wholly strange with all new stories and gameplay.”

The force is clever with EA. Or it will be shortly enough.

Electronic Arts and The Walt Disney Corporation announced on Monday a new, multi-year chartering agreement, permitting EA to rise and globally tell games formed on Star Wars, each nerd’s favorite authorization (Trekkies aside, that is).

“The sorcery of Star Wars is interwoven into a worlds, characters, planets and extraordinary battles. It is a star that lends itself ideally to gaming,” pronounced EA Labels President Frank Gibeau in a blog post. “Our agreement unlocks a whole new destiny of Star Wars games that will camber consoles, PCs, tablets, mobile and more.”

As we might remember, Disney acquired Lucasfilm final autumn for a whopping $4 billion, bringing into a overlay all of a company’s properties — including LucasArts, a now-defunct gaming studio which Disney close down a few months after appropriation Lucasfilm.

LucasArts was in a midst of building a series of Star Wars titles when it was shuttered, including Star Wars 1313 — a Boba Fett-focused diversion currently in limbo — and Star Wars: First Assault. Disney pronounced during a time it would instead be chartering a Star Wars properties out to other studios.

DICE and Visceral, dual EA-operated studios, will start to emanate new Star Wars games “spanning all interactive platforms,” while BioWare — a studio behind dual of EA’s many renouned Star Wars games — will also continue to rise games from a renouned franchise.

Disney, a association said, will continue to reason certain rights for building mobile, amicable and tablet-based Star Wars games.

“This agreement demonstrates a joining 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, in a statement.

SAN FRANCISCO — Electronic Arts and Walt Disney hermetic a multi-year chartering understanding Monday underneath that a Redwood City video diversion publisher will rise games for mobile devices, PCs and consoles formed on a “Star Wars” movies.

Disney, that bought George Lucas’s Lucasfilm and a blockbuster sci-fi authorization for $4.05 billion in October, will keep a rights to rise online and mobile games, both companies pronounced in a matter on Monday.

They did not exhibit a financial terms of a agreement.

EA gamble large on a Star Wars’ universe of jedis and wookies in 2011 by releasing a “Star Wars: The Old Republic” — a large multiplayer actor online game, or MMO, that allows thousands of people to play concurrently for a monthly subscription price as against to a one-time purchase.

Analysts pronounced EA done a record investment of between $100 million and $300 million to build “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” though EA has not disclosed costs. It hired some-more than 1,000 voice actors for “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” that pennyless a diversion attention record.

But a diversion has struggled to keep players, call a association to offer 15 diversion levels for giveaway in Jun final year. And in November, it launched a free-to-play chronicle of a game.

Disney, that has a possess interactive games division, final month close a 30-year-old LucasArts games studio it hereditary with a merger to concentration on chartering a “Star Wars” code externally.

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(CNN) — Electronic Arts will be a disdainful provider of games formed on a Star Wars series, Disney and a diversion developer announced jointly on Monday.

Following Disney’s merger of Lucasfilm final year, it close down a LucasArts diversion growth division, indicating a welfare to permit console games rather than rise them in-house. Now, Electronic Arts will be a usually publisher formulating Star Wars games for a “core gaming audience,” according to today’s press release.

Electronic Arts pronounced that a in-house diversion teams DICE (Battlefield) and Visceral (Dead Space) will work on Star Wars titles, in further to BioWare, a group behind EA’s existent Star Wars MMO The Old Republic.

Meanwhile, Disney will “retain certain rights to rise new titles within a mobile, social, inscription and online diversion categories.”

My initial take: While this competence seem like a good arrangement for Electronic Arts and Disney, we can't see how holding divided a component of foe will be good for a peculiarity of Star Wars games.

Individually chartering out Star Wars games to opposite publishers and developers competence have ushered in a accumulation of artistic ideas and directions for a franchise, though locking out anyone that isn’t dependent with Electronic Arts seems like a joining to a same old, same old.

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

And now, unless they go work during EA, they can’t.

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LOS ANGELES — Disney is not giving adult on “Star Wars” video games after all.

A month after shutting down diversion prolongation during Lucasfilm auxiliary LucasArts, The Walt Disney Co. pronounced Monday that it had entered multi-year understanding with Electronic Arts Inc. to rise new “Star Wars” video games.

According to a statement, EA will rise games for a “core gaming audience” while Disney will keep a right to rise titles for mobile devices, amicable platforms and online.

Terms were not disclosed.

Disney is aiming to make the money-losing interactive section essential this year and changeable some diversion growth costs elsewhere should help.

Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion in December. The association pronounced final month that it will recover a new “Star Wars” film each year starting in 2015.

Star Wars: The Old Republic, published by Electronic Arts.

Electronic Arts will be a disdainful provider of games formed on a Star Wars series, Disney and a diversion developer announced jointly today.

Following Disney’s merger of Lucasfilm final year, it shut down a LucasArts diversion growth division, indicating a welfare to permit console games rather than rise them in-house. Now, Electronic Arts will be a usually publisher formulating Star Wars games for a “core gaming audience,” according to today’s press release. Electronic Arts pronounced that a in-house diversion teams DICE (Battlefield) and Visceral (Dead Space) will work on Star Wars titles, in further to BioWare, a group behind EA’s existent Star Wars MMO The Old Republic.

Meanwhile, Disney will “retain certain rights to rise new titles within a mobile, social, inscription and online diversion categories.”

My initial take: While this competence seem like a good arrangement for Electronic Arts and Disney, we can't see how holding divided a component of foe will be good for a peculiarity of Star Wars games. Individually chartering out Star Wars games to opposite publishers and developers competence have ushered in a accumulation of artistic ideas and directions for a franchise, though locking out anyone that isn’t dependent with Electronic Arts seems like a joining to a same old, same old.

“Every developer dreams of formulating games for a Star Wars universe,” pronounced EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. And now, unless they go work during EA, they can’t.

This May 4, “Star Wars” fans will have something to hearten about: a awaiting of a initial new “Star Wars” film given 2008.

May 4 became an unaccepted holiday for “Star Wars” fans after creator George Lucas was asked to repeat a movie’s famous line, “May a force be with you,” in a 2005 talk on German television. The interpreter translated a judgment into German as “We shall be with we on May 4.”

Since then, fans worldwide have distinguished a pun, “May a fourth be with you.”

This year, Disney, that took over a “Star Wars” authorization and is a primogenitor association of ABC News, is throwing a “Death Star-sized party” during a Walt Disney World Resort.

After appropriation Lucasfilm final October, Disney announced that it would furnish 3 new “Star Wars” films. The first, “Star Wars Episode VII,” destined by J.J. Abrams, isn’t scheduled to strike a large shade until 2015, though a hum has already been building.

With some of a strange expel members slated to appear, we suspicion it would be fun to see what a actors have been doing given a initial “Star Wars” trilogy launched in 1977.

Click by to see a “Star Wars” cast, afterwards and now.

“Star Wars” fans can unequivocally get into a cinema during Walt Disney World this year with a new knowledge formulating tradition figurines. Following a success of final year’s Carbon Freeze Me experience, that put fan likenesses onto Han Solo’s physique solidified in Carbonite from “Empire Strikes Back,” during this year’s Star Wars Weekends eventuality during Disney’s Hollywood Studios thesis park, Disney will also be charity a possibility to emanate custom Stormtroopers featuring fan faces.

A 10-minute knowledge yses high-resolution 3D face scanners to constraint a likeness, afterwards sent to a 3D to furnish a figurine, shipped 4-6 weeks later.

The Carbon Freeze Me knowledge will be offering once again this year as well. A Carbon-Freeze Me light-up rope or a Stormtrooper symbol will be given out a day of a experience.

The cost for possibly Star Wars – D-Tech Me knowledge is $99.95, and shipping and sales tax.

Here’s a demeanour behind during my possess Carbon Freeze Me knowledge final year as good as a finished product, that arrived a bit late, roughly 10 weeks later:

UPDATE: The folks responding a phones during D-Tech Me are observant they’re not engagement these practice utterly nonetheless this year. This post will be updated whenever reservations turn available.

To book possibly experience, call 407-WDW-TECH (407-939-8324). Availability is usually during Star Wars Weekends 2013 (May 17 – 19, May 24 – 26, May 31 – Jun 2, and Jun 7 – 9).