The Disney/EA Star Wars deal -- inked earlier this year , and celebrated with the reveal of Star Wars: Battlefront -- will last for the next 10 years, according to EA's Blake Jorgensen.

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Speaking at the UBS Global Technology Conference (via S eekingAlpha ), Jorgensen said Disney "knew that we could help them develop really great games and 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 over 10 years." He continued to say, "we’ll leverage the strength of the Disney marketing associated with the Star Wars properties both in movies and other things that they may do over the timeframe."Jorgensen also emphasized that EA will not be creating games based on the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII or its sequels, but EA may borrow some stuff from J.J. Abrams. EA will create "new games that we’re inventing around their content, around the broad Star Wars content, and around some of the new assets that they may produce over time as well.... The beauty of the Star Wars franchise is that it's so broad and so deep, you don’t have to do a movie game, you can do a game that's very focused on the world that's been created around Star Wars."EA's developers don't want to retread old territory, either. DICE's Patrick Bach specifically stated he didn't want Star Wars: Battlefront to simply be a re-dressed Battlefield game . Visceral Games' unknown Star Wars game is in the earliest stages of next-gen development , and, from the sounds of things, will likely follow suit with the rest of EA's Star Wars projects.

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