( CNN ) -- Electronic Arts will be the exclusive provider of games based on the Star Wars series , Disney and the game developer announced jointly on Monday . Following Disney 's acquisition of Lucasfilm last year , it shut down the LucasArts game development division , indicating its preference to license console games rather than develop them in-house . Now , Electronic Arts will be the only publisher creating Star Wars games for a `` core gaming audience , '' according to today 's press release . Electronic Arts said that its in-house game teams DICE ( Battlefield ) and Visceral ( Dead Space ) will work on Star Wars titles , in addition to BioWare , the team behind EA 's existing Star Wars MMO The Old Republic . Meanwhile , Disney will `` retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile , social , tablet and online game categories . '' My initial take : While this might seem like a great arrangement for Electronic Arts and Disney , I can not see how taking away the element of competition will be good for the quality of Star Wars games . Individually licensing out Star Wars games to different publishers and developers might have ushered in a variety of creative ideas and directions for the franchise , but locking out anyone that is n't affiliated with Electronic Arts seems like a commitment to the same old , same old . `` Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe , '' said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau . And now , unless they go work at EA , they ca n't . Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $ 1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT ! Click here ! Copyright 2011 Wired.com .
Electronic Arts will have exclusive rights to ` ` Star Wars '' video games . After acquiring Lucasfilm , Disney shut down the video games division . Disney already makes the multiplayer ` ` Star Wars : The Old Republic ''