DICE and Visceral developing new Star Wars games, EA becomes exclusive publisher of license
"Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe," EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said in the announcement. "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."
Months after acquiring Lucasfilm, Disney shuttered its games division, LucasArts. Since then, fans have wondered: what will happen to Star Wars games? Surprisingly, they won't be published by Disney Interactive. Instead, Electronic Arts has announced a "multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish globally new games based on Star Wars characters and storylines."
According to the press release, "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." These social games could be extensions of the unannounced games that LucasArts was working on before its closure.
This isn't EA's first foray with the Star Wars franchise, of course. It launched Star Wars: The Old Republic--an ambitious MMORPG that later had to go free-to-play as subscriber numbers dwindled. What is surprising is that EA says its top studios will work on new games based on the Star Wars universe. "Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe," EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said in the announcement. "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."
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replyAndrew Yoon posted a new article, DICE and Visceral developing new Star Wars games, EA becomes exclusive publisher of license.
"Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe," EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said in the announcement. "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."-
StarWarsCraft?
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Ok, I was trying to be funny, but seriously, Battlefront 3 from DICE, please.
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KOTOR 3 pls.
Also Battlefront 3 on BF4 tech.
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Sign me up.
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He's dead, Jim
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haha
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Congrats dude!
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Congrats, man! Livin' the dream!
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what if they tell you the plot of star wars 7 thats kind of a bummer...if you like going into movies fresh
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Good luck!!!
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X-Wings. Just give us X-Wings!!! thx :)
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Outstanding! Now push for Wii U development. :) Please?
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For you I will look upon this news with positivity and hope
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Epic single player in Battlefront 3!!!! Do it!!!
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I'm interested to see what the deadspace team can do with the Star Wars license. Now to wait until next year for them to show it off.
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Hand the SW license over to the team that made the ME series and we're in business. Can you imagine a SW RPG with the type of character interaction and depth of the ME games? http://i.imgur.com/zm6Kr.gif
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I mean a fucking single player game not an MMO!
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BioWare made both the original 'Knights of the Old Republic' and 'The Old Republic'. BioWare did KOTOR a single player based Star Wars game prior to Mass Effect which itself was similar to KOTOR.
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Dude you have some homework to do
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Knights of the Old Republic
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It is funny, but his cluelessness means he could play the game he was imagining right now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/32370/
Pretty lucky!
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It is funny, but his cluelessness means he could play the game he was only imagining right now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/32370/
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Well if you guys are done dog piling me, let me once again clarify what I meant. I mean a proper KotoR sequal. AKA a REAL KotoR 3 and not an mmo. Yes, I know Bioware made the first KotoR. Yes, I have played it. I know the joy of forcing Zaalbar to kill Mission and watching Karth run away like a bitch. Jeez you guys.
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The only reason people dog-piled you was your aggressive response to pyide which implied you believed Knights of the Old Republic was an MMO. You made no mention of a sequel so nobody could take that as your meaning. After your current clarification then yes a new KOTOR sequel with updated character interaction is a great idea.
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Jesus fucking christ.
Though the seriously mistaken man is right in a way. We DO need a proper fucking KOTOR 3. I was so pissed when they decided to make a fucking MMO.
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Obviously your MD is not in video games.
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I hope that's the type of thing that would make your head explode
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i saw jar-jar in a x-wing pilot uniform. closed.
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check the publish date http://www.swbattlecry.com/games/media/4113/new-pilot Not sure why they still have the image rotating through their frontpage, but w/e
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there is a Star Wars mod for everything. Pretty sure there was one for Battlefield2 and Modern Warfare 4 at the very least. Was definitely one for UT2004 as well. None of them have been any fun to play
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I bought Mass Effect 2 and Dead Space 1/2 on Steam, but not Mass Effect 3 or Dead Space 3 because of the terrible service I received back when Origin was called EA Downloader. Back then, I bought some DLC, kept the installers since they made it clear they wanted more money to be able to download again beyond a few months... but then they stopped the service that validated the keys for those installers and customer service either couldn't or wouldn't help.
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EA/Origin has come a long way from EA D. Actually Origin has proved to be quite serviceable.
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Wrong clearly it's time to give into the hate let it consume you.
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Haha man those original 3 are so great.
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Lol...
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I'm okay with waiting
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A new Jedi Knight game is sorely needed, Kyle Katarn needs a comeback.
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I'm sure others have said it already, but I'm guessing this means Wii U will never get any Star Wars games.
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Call of the Force and Gears of Rebellion?
Yeah, I think EA will feel like they can finally topple or at least come close to Call of Duty, dump even more money than usual into mediocre samey-same shooting mans games dressed up in Star Wars garb and will likely fall flat on their faces doing so.
I would like it were they to prove me wrong.
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I'm just glad there will be more core games with the Star Wars ip. They may suck but at least they won't be nothing but a see of iOS freeium games.
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I'm sure there are going to be iOS games. I was just concerned that was all disney was going to allow.
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Does this mean they can release the back catalog on GOG finally? I am ready to hop back into my TIE Interceptor
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TIE Defender!
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Star Wars Hockey!
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Thank god it's not gearbox
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lol
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