LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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.

Electronic Arts was voted a “worst company” of 2013 by Consumerist readers since a association has been unapologetic about products that users have deemed subpar.

Terms were not disclosed.

Disney is aiming to make a 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.

Earlier on HuffPost:

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  “Everything is extraordinary and nobody’s happy. […] This is what people are like now, they’ve got their phone, and they’re like, ‘uhhhh, it won’t–‘ GIVE IT A SECOND! It’s going to space. Can we give it a second to get behind from space? Is a speed of light too delayed for you?”

• Bill Murray Feeling Baffled By High-Tech Consumer Goods

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• Mitch Hedberg On Why He Doesn’t Own A Phone Or Pager

  “I don’t have a cellphone or a pager. we only hang around everybody we know all a time.”

• Patton Oswalt On Tivo’s Amazing And Bad Qualities

  “I got my Tivo as a gift. It’s a biggest present I’ve ever received, larger even than a present of life.”

• Robin Williams On His Love For Video Games

  “It’s always uncanny when we play online and we get owned by a 10-year-old. [emAffects a high-pitched voice/em.] ‘You’re my bitch! Hey, aged man, we possess your ass!'”

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The Walt Disney Company and EA Announce Multi-Year Star Wars Games Agreement

BURBANK REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–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.

Either 3D copy has totally jumped a shark, or it’s attack a mainstream.

Maybe both.

In any case, Disney has really jumped — on a 3D copy bandwagon. You can now spin yourself in to a real, live (sort of) Disney movement figure: a Imperial Stormtrooper. Inspired, Disney says, by a stage from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, a movement figure will be 7.5-inches high and, of course, have your smiling face.

Fortunately, a figurine’s helmet is off, so your face is visible.

It’s partial of a “D-tech weekends” during Disney’s Star Wars celebrations, and you’ll need to be during a company’s Hollywood Studios to get a figurine. You need to book a experience, that concerned a 10-minute print fire of your face by what Disney says is “the world’s highest-resolution, single-shot 3D face scanner,” combined by Disney’s possess Imagineers, operative with Disney Research Labs.

Photo done, a shot is sent to Disney’s high-res 3D printers and a finished Mini-you aka Imperial Stormtrooper will be in a mail and during your home within 7-8 weeks.

For some-more details, and how to haven your shoot, check Disney’s site.

Image credit: Disney; Hat tip: C|Net

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.

Be certain to conduct to Game Informer to review a full press release.

What do we consider about Electronic Arts grabbing disdainful rights to make destiny Star Wars games?

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Fri May 10, 2013 7:49pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Filming of a new “Star Wars” film will take place in England, returning a authorization to a British roots, Disney’s Lucasfilm pronounced on Friday.

“We’ve clinging critical time and courtesy to revisiting a origins of ‘Star Wars’ as impulse for a routine on a new movie, and I’m anxious that returning to a UK for prolongation and utilizing a implausible talent there can be a partial of that,” Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm president, pronounced in a statement.

The 6 prior “Star Wars” films were all partly filmed in a UK during famed studios including Pinewood, Elstree and Shepperton.

Disney announced 3 new “Star Wars” films in Oct 2012, when it purchased George Lucas’ Lucasfilm association for $4.05 billion.

The news was welcomed by a British financial minister, George Osborne, who tweeted on Friday: “Great news for a artistic industries. May a force be with us.”

“Star Wars: Episode VII” will be done by executive J.J. Abrams, and will serve boost a British film attention that has been renewed by a renouned James Bond and Harry Potter film franchises.

The “Star Wars” authorization has grossed some-more than $4.4 billion during a worldwide box bureau given a initial film was expelled in 1977.

“Star Wars: Episode VII’ is scheduled to be expelled in 2015.

(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy, Editing by Jill Serjeant and Peter Cooney)

EA and Disney pointer multi-year understanding for rights to tell Star Wars games

The fruits of a Disney’s LucasArts merger are commencement to show. EA now has a rights to tell destiny Star Wars games from a inner developers: Visceral Games, DICE and BioWare.

The finer sum of a understanding weren’t released, though EA settled a teams now have a event to perform a dream of formulating extraordinary practice in a Star Wars universe. The games will expected tie to destiny movies, and EA simplified no diversion will be expelled before Apr 2014. 

So we have to wait a while, though I’m carefully optimistic. BioWare grown arguably a best Star Wars diversion behind in 2003 with “Star Wars: Knights of a Old Republic.” Ever given EA bought BioWare I’d disagree a peculiarity of their games has diminished. BioWare expelled “The Old Republic” in hopes of capitalizing on KOTOR’s success, usually to land with a resounding “meh” from critics.

DICE and Visceral now have a possibility to do some good. Neither studio has ever done a Star Wars game, though a uninformed take on a star would substantially hint some life in a series.

Anyone remember “Star Wars: Republic Commando?” It was an overwhelming squad-based shooter for a strange Xbox and it never got a sequel.  I’m anticipating DICE, a makers of Battlefield, can make a supplement to tie in with a movies.

The PlayStation 4 will not need an Internet tie to play games 

The PlayStation 4 will not need an “always-on” connection, Sony’s President of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida pronounced to Game Informer in an speak from this month’s issue. Requiring an Internet tie wasn’t even partial of a conversation, according to a interview.

“The categorical reason being that many countries don’t have strong Internet connections,” Yoshida pronounced in a interview. “It creates clarity for people to have Internet connectors to play online games, though for offline games there are many countries that we saw [that] do not unequivocally have strong Internet.”

I’m perplexing to figure out because it’s even a subject for discussion. we see no reason because new systems should require an Internet tie to play games. If I’m personification a single-player diversion in my dorm and ResTek hasn’t figured out how to broach a unchanging Internet connection, what am we ostensible to do?

The dual console giants know their audiences. The years of being in this business should strew some light on how reticent it would be to recover an always-online console. Time will tell, we suppose.

New sum on “Infamous: Second Son”

Once again we spin to Game Informer, who got a latest sum on one of my most-anticipated PlayStation 4 games.

“Infamous: Second Son” is a subsequent diversion in developer Sucker Punch’s Infamous series. The array is an strange superhero story where normal people acquire implausible powers and use them to save — or destroy — a world. In this installment, we play as Delsin Rowe, who controls smoke. In prior games, electricity was your fondle and we used it to manipulate a sourroundings to assistance we span a city faster.

Apparently, a new diversion takes place a full 7 years after a events of “Infamous 2” and will underline Rowe waging a fight opposite a Department of Unified Protection. The DUP is an classification that seeks to exterminate those with superpowers, famous as “Conduits” in a Infamous universe.

It’s also set in Seattle, so yay for internal stuff!

I desired a initial dual games. The Infamous array in many ways paint a ideal games. It satisfies that anticipation each child has about being a superhero and it doesn’t take itself too seriously. You’re simply given a energy and let lax to do what we want. It’s beautiful.

So there we have it, what do we consider about all this news? I’m vehement for anything Star Wars and Infamous-related and a PS4 has already won my heart. But what about YOU, dear reader? Leave a criticism and we can speak about it. 

Watch a trailer to “Infamous: Second Son”

Either 3-D copy has totally jumped a shark, or it’s attack a mainstream.

Maybe both.

In any case, Disney has really jumped — on a 3-D copy bandwagon. You can now spin yourself in to a real, live (sort of) Disney movement figure: a Galactic Empire Stormtrooper. Inspired, Disney says, by a stage from Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back, a movement figure will be 7.5″ high and, of course, have your smiling face.

Fortunately, a figurine’s helmet is off, so your face is visible.

It’s partial of a “D-tech weekends” during Disney’s Star Wars weekends, and you’ll need to be during a company’s Hollywood Studios to get a figurine. You need to book a experience, that concerned a 10-minute print fire of your face by what Disney says is “the world’s highest-resolution, single-shot 3D face scanner,” combined by Disney’s possess Imagineers, operative with Disney Research Labs.

Photo done, a shot is sent to Disney’s high-res 3-D printers, and a finished Mini-you AKA Imperial Stormtrooper will be in a mail and during your home within 7-8 weeks.

For some-more details, and how to haven your shoot, check Disney’s site.

Image credit: Disney; Hat tip: C|Net

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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.