Star Wars Video Game Will Happen As Disney Teams Up With EA

New Star Wars Games To Be Made By Hated Company
Darth Vader and Storm Troopers pose for visitors for the demonstration of the Star Wars videogame software at the software developer Konami's booth during the annual Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, suburban Tokyo, on September 20, 2012. Some 200 companies exhibited their latest video game hardware and software with some 200,000 people expected to visit the four-day vent. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/GettyImages)
Darth Vader and Storm Troopers pose for visitors for the demonstration of the Star Wars videogame software at the software developer Konami's booth during the annual Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, suburban Tokyo, on September 20, 2012. Some 200 companies exhibited their latest video game hardware and software with some 200,000 people expected to visit the four-day vent. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/GettyImages)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disney is not giving up on "Star Wars" video games after all.

A month after shutting down game production at Lucasfilm subsidiary LucasArts, The Walt Disney Co. said Monday that it had entered multi-year deal with Electronic Arts Inc. to develop new "Star Wars" video games.

According to a statement, EA will develop games for a "core gaming audience" while Disney will retain the right to develop titles for mobile devices, social platforms and online.

Terms were not disclosed.

Disney is aiming to make its money-losing interactive unit profitable this year and shifting some game development costs elsewhere should help.

Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion in December. The company said last month that it will release a new "Star Wars" movie every year starting in 2015.

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