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EA Secures Exclusive Rights to Star Wars Games
Walt Disney and Electronic Arts announced a new multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish globally new games based on Star Wars characters and storylines. In other words, there is still hope for a new Battlefront game, as well as the completion of Star Wars 1313.
It will be interesting to see what EA will do with the Star Wars franchise, and whether Star Wars 1313 will be back on track.:
Today it was announced that Lucasfilm Ltd. and Disney Interactive are entering into a multi-year, multi-title exclusive licensing agreement with Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) for the creation of new high quality Star Wars games aimed at the core gaming audience and spanning multiple genres for console, PC, mobile, and tablets.
Industry leaders and creators of best-in-class blockbuster games, the development and publishing teams at EA will collaborate with the creative teams at Lucasfilm to provide audiences with all-new gaming experiences set in the ever-expanding Star Wars galaxy. As part of the agreement, EA studio teams DICE (Battlefield series) and Visceral (Dead Space series) will join BioWare (Mass Effect series, Star Wars: The Old Republic) in the development of new Star Wars games.
"Our number one objective was to find a developer who could consistently deliver our fans great Star Wars games for years to come," said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. "When we looked at the talent of the teams that EA was committing to our games and the quality of their vision for Star Wars, the choice was clear."
While EA studios will develop for the core Star Wars gaming audience, Disney Interactive will focus on delivering new Star Wars games for casual audiences on mobile, social, tablet, and online gaming platforms.
"This agreement demonstrates our commitment to creating quality game experiences that drive the popularity of the Star Wars franchise for years to come," said John Pleasants, co-president of Disney Interactive. "Collaborating with one of the world's premier game developers will allow us to bring an amazing portfolio of new Star Wars titles to fans around the world."
"Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe," said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. "Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans. The new experiences we create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay."
More information, including titles in development, will be announced in the coming months. Continue to check StarWars.com for updates on the future of Star Wars gaming.
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#4591832 Posted on: 05/07/2013 02:21 PM
Ouch EA.
R.I.P. all those Games.
Ouch EA.
R.I.P. all those Games.
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#4591876 Posted on: 05/07/2013 03:22 PM
I consider Origin about as much DRM as Steam is, or UPlay.
I'm more concerned about the additional always-on requirement like with SimCity and some Ubisoft titles.
Its EA which probably means they'll be attached to origin, or maybe not. But I'm betting they'll require it in some form.
I consider Origin about as much DRM as Steam is, or UPlay.
I'm more concerned about the additional always-on requirement like with SimCity and some Ubisoft titles.
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#4592044 Posted on: 05/07/2013 07:31 PM
I left Star Wars after the original 3 films, anything after those were just money milking.
I left Star Wars after the original 3 films, anything after those were just money milking.
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#4592211 Posted on: 05/07/2013 11:49 PM
Bahahahaha.
In a word, No KotoR, No SWG 2, No SW:BF3 - no nothing to do with the original 3 films or the Original KotoR license.
This deal was inked so that they could make games that pertain to the JJ Abrams SW films and just the fact that they gave the job to that hack is enough for me to avoid at all costs.
You want to see what's in store - Check out the new ST game.
SW began at Episode 4 and ended at episode 6 - Hell, Ewok Adventure - The Battle for Endor was better than anything since, from those poxy cartoons to Episodes 1,2 and 3.
The last decent SW game was Empire at War and before that it was SWG (Pre NGE) which was almost 10 years ago
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They could have hired a decent director and used the Zahn books but instead they are going with a writer whose only real experience is children's animated films (Michael Arndt) and a director (JJ Abrams) who already buggered up ST and turned it into a Michael Bay 'esque' disaster.
SW is long dead, let it RIP.
/rant off
Bahahahaha.
In a word, No KotoR, No SWG 2, No SW:BF3 - no nothing to do with the original 3 films or the Original KotoR license.
This deal was inked so that they could make games that pertain to the JJ Abrams SW films and just the fact that they gave the job to that hack is enough for me to avoid at all costs.
You want to see what's in store - Check out the new ST game.
SW began at Episode 4 and ended at episode 6 - Hell, Ewok Adventure - The Battle for Endor was better than anything since, from those poxy cartoons to Episodes 1,2 and 3.
The last decent SW game was Empire at War and before that it was SWG (Pre NGE) which was almost 10 years ago
.
They could have hired a decent director and used the Zahn books but instead they are going with a writer whose only real experience is children's animated films (Michael Arndt) and a director (JJ Abrams) who already buggered up ST and turned it into a Michael Bay 'esque' disaster.
SW is long dead, let it RIP.
/rant off
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Wouldn't it be funny if Disney spent all that money to get their hands on the Star Wars franchise only to find out no one cares about it...
Haven't we had enough Star Wars?
It's not like there is anything new which could be added to either a film, book, game that hasn't been seen before in the existing mythology/chronology, is there?
Dunno, but any 'magic' the Star Wars franchise has just seems really outdated in 2013, let alone two summers from now when the film gets released.