EA: NO STAR WARS MOVIE GAMES (Escapist News Now)

Subscribe to The Escapist! http://bit.ly/Sub2Escapist<br /><br />Escapist News Now with Andrea Rene <br />Follow Andrea on Twitter @andrearene<br /><br />EA: NO STAR WARS MOVIE GAMES (Escapist News Now)<br /><br />EA's Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgenson spoke about Star Wars and the company's deal with Disney.<br /><br />The deal lasts for ten years! DICE is working on a Battlefront reboot, and we also know that Visceral, the folks behind Dead Space, and that Bioware, the folks behind The Old Republic, are both working on Star Wars games as well.<br /><br />According to transcribing site Seeking Alpha, Jorgensen said we can start to expect to see these games in 2015 and 2016, but don't expect to see games related to the upcoming Star Wars movies from J.J. Abrams. He said, "We've done movie games over the years and we wanted to make sure that we weren't doing a movie game, i.e., game based on the movie."<br /><br />He went on to say, "We had a long relationship obviously with Lucas on the original Star Wars, and when Disney took over Lucas, they really wanted to maintain a video game business around Star Wars...we struck what we believe is a fantastic deal which allows us to be able to build games in many different genres across multiple types of platforms."<br /><br />Source link: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1850511-electronic-arts-management-presents-at-ubs-global-technology-conference-transcript?page=1<br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------<br /><br />Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EscapistMag<br />Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheEscapistMag<br />Find us Google+: http://bit.ly/EscapistGoogle<br />Follow us on Pinterest: http://bit.ly/EscapistPins<br />Check out our Merch: http://www.splitreason.com/theescapist