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A brand new office is being opened in LA specifically to work on Star Wars titles. It comes as a result of EA’s decision to acquire the Star Wars licence from Disney. The Wall Street Journal reports that the new outfit will be run by Battlefield creators DICE, but won’t …
Read More »EA opens LA DICE to work on Star Wars games
New US office expected to employ up to 60 staff by the end of the year
Read More »Wii U to miss out on EA’s Star Wars games
It has been confirmed that the new Star Wars games coming from EA studios DICE and Visceral won’t be available on Wii U. That’s because both are being built using EA’s Frostbite 3 engine – tech that has not been ported to Nintendo’s machine. "Frostbite 3 has never been running …
Read More »EA confirms Frostbite 3-powered Star Wars games… but not this year
Publisher EA has said it won’t be releasing any Star Wars games in its current fiscal year, which ends March 31st 2014. EA earlier this week announced a deal with Dinsey to produce core games based on the famed sci-fi licence across consoles, PC, mobiles and tablets. It has now …
Read More »Star Wars games from DICE, Bioware, Visceral in new EA-Disney deal
A month after closing LucasArts, Disney has signed a multi-year publishing deal with EA, through which the latter will create Star Wars games for the core gaming audience (read: console and PC). EA will rope in the talents of in-house studios DICE (Battlefield), Bioware (Mass Effect), and Visceral Games (Dead …
Read More »EA snaps up Star Wars game rights
DICE and Visceral working on new original Star Wars games with the Frostbite 3 engine
Read More »EA signs ‘exclusive’ video game rights to Star Wars
EA will be going to a galaxy far, far away again more often, following a major publishing agreement with Disney. EA has signed the ‘exclusive’ rights to create Star Wars games on a multi-year deal. It follows the closure of the LucasFilm’s in-house publishing label, LucasArts. Judging by EA’s press …
Read More »Free LEGO Star Wars Yoda game heading to mobiles
A free Yoda-themed LEGO Star Wars games will be released on mobiles on May 4th. As in, May The Fourth Be With You. Geddit? Called LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles, it takes place amidst the turmoil of the Clone Wars and sees the aged Jedi Master instructing a new …
Read More »Will games miss out on annual Star Wars movie blitz?
Disney has confirmed plans to release a new Star Wars film every year from 2015. TotalFilm reports that the announcement was made at LA event CinemaCon. Apparently it will alternate each year between the numbered VII, VIII and IX ‘Episodes’ and a series of standalone movies rumoured to centre on …
Read More »Disney kills off LucasArts
LucasArts is to be disbanded by new owner Disney. The firm’s game publishing and internal development business will close, with Lucas properties such as Star Wars to be licensed to external businesses, Game Informer reports. The full statement from Disney – which bought parent LucasFilm and the Star Wars franchise …
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