EA should next years Star Wars games

Gameontwikkelaar and publisher Electronic Arts may the coming years developing games based on the Star Wars films, whose rights since last year at Disney. EA will focus on the hardcore gamers, while Disney social and online games will continue to make.

Within Electronic Arts, the Swedish Dice, known for the Battlefield series, and the American studio Visceral Games with the Star Wars franchise deal. In addition, also Bioware, which was responsible for the mmo Star Wars: The Old Republic, involved in the development of Star Wars games. Disney and EA announce that the latter focuses on the ‘core gaming audience’ will focus, with the titles on various platforms out and multiple genres will be covered. Disney will also be Star Wars games, but aimed at tablets, mobile and social gaming.

The announcement follows the closure of gamesontwikkelaar Lucasarts at the beginning of april. LucasArts was part of Lucasfilm. Disney took over in October 2012 parent company Lucasfilm for an amount of four billion dollars. LucasArts was in the ’80s and ’90s more and more popular with its adventuregames, such as Maniac Mansion, Loom, The Secret of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle. The past few years, published LucasArts especially games in the Star Wars franchise.