Disney and EA today announced a multi-year agreement for game development. DICE and Visceral will be the two new studios involved in game development, with Bioware continuing what they've been doing with Star Wars already.
Visceral makes sense. Games like Dead Space show their chops. But DICE doesn't make as much sense. Since 2005, they've pretty much been making only Battlefield games, with a brief break from that for Mirror's Edge. Maybe they'd be a good fit for a Star Wars: Battlefront type of game.
Full press release:
http://ea.newshq.businesswire.com/press-release/company-news/walt-disney-company-and-ea-announce-multi-year-star-wars-games-agreement
Visceral makes sense. Games like Dead Space show their chops. But DICE doesn't make as much sense. Since 2005, they've pretty much been making only Battlefield games, with a brief break from that for Mirror's Edge. Maybe they'd be a good fit for a Star Wars: Battlefront type of game.
Full press release:
http://ea.newshq.businesswire.com/press-release/company-news/walt-disney-company-and-ea-announce-multi-year-star-wars-games-agreement
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When Disney shuttled Lucas Arts and said they were going to license the IP I figured some big company would snatch up the licenses. *sigh*
I don't have much vested in Star Wars video games anymore, though I do still need to play Knights of the Old Republic.
I still don't get closing Lucas Arts. It's a sad loss.
Its really a money thing I bet. If the just license the IP they get scrilla per year for doing little. I bet Lucas Arts was, at the time, making little or operating at a loss.
No...this can't be happening...no....no,no,no NOT EA. NOOOOO.
IT IS A SAD DAY
I agree, its not an awesome thing.