{"id":1883,"date":"2013-05-07T15:19:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2013-05-07T15:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T15:19:14","slug":"disney-and-ea-announce-multi-year-star-wars-games-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/05\/07\/disney-and-ea-announce-multi-year-star-wars-games-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney and EA Announce Multi-Year Star Wars Games Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Walt Disney Company (DIS) and Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) today announced a new multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish globally new games based on Star Wars characters and storylines.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis agreement demonstrates our commitment to creating quality game experiences that drive the popularity of the Star Wars franchise for years to come,\u201d said John Pleasants, Co-President of Disney Interactive. \u201cCollaborating with one of the world\u2019s premier game developers will allow us to bring an amazing portfolio of new Star Wars titles to our fans around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe,\u201d said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. \u201cThree 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/news\/articles\/176699-disney-and-ea-announce-multi-year-star-wars-games-agreement\">http:\/\/www.superhero \u2026 wars-games-agreement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walt Disney Company (DIS) and Electronic Arts Inc. (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. \u201cThis agreement demonstrates our commitment to creating quality game experiences that drive the popularity of the Star Wars franchise for years to come,\u201d said John Pleasants, Co-President of Disney Interactive. \u201cCollaborating with one of the world\u2019s premier game developers will allow us to bring an amazing portfolio of new Star Wars titles to our fans around the world.\u201d \u201cEvery developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe,\u201d said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. \u201cThree 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[483,760,1618,1889],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars","tag-computer-games","tag-games","tag-star-wars","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}