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Electronic Arts Nabs ‘Star Wars’ Video Game Rights

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han solo star warsVideo game blogs across the net have been fuming over the past few months. Ever since the Disney-Lucasfilm purchase in the back-end of last year, there has been a pretty sizable loss for words from the hardcore Lucas Arts fanboys who were clearly going to miss out on some grade-A titles in the years that followed. Disney quickly squashed those rumors, saying that they would move to license out the property as the company did for its MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic before the Mouse House got involved. Today, we have word that the publisher behind that specific title, has won the rights war for everything else. Electronic Arts now exclusively carries the monopoly on the galaxy far, far away via a press release issued earlier in the day.

BURBANK and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 6, 2013 — The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) and Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced a new multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish globally new games based on Star Wars characters and storylines.

Under the agreement, EA will develop and publish new Star Wars titles for a core gaming audience, spanning all interactive platforms and the most popular game genres, while Disney will retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile, social, tablet and online game categories.

“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 our 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. DICE and Visceral will produce new games, joining the BioWare team which continues to develop for the Star Wars franchise. The new experiences we create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay.”

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.


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