Electronic Arts Wins ‘Star Wars’ Game License From Disney
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Electronic Arts Inc., the second-largest video-game publisher, reached a multiyear agreement with Walt Disney Co. to create games based on “Star Wars” characters after Disney said it would stop making them itself.
Under the agreement announced yesterday, Electronic Arts, based in Redwood City, California, gains the right to develop new “Star Wars” titles for game consoles, computers and mobile devices. Disney will “retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile, social, tablet and online game categories,” the companies said in a joint statement.