Electronic Arts and The Walt Disney company today announced a new multi-year exclusive agreement to develop and publish new games based on Star Wars characters and stories.

As part of the agreement, EA will create new Star Wars titles for a "core gaming audience." These games will span "all interactive platforms" and "the most popular game genres." Disney, meanwhile, will retain rights to create new Star Wars games for mobile, social, tablet, and online markets.

"Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe," EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said in a statement. "Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans."

Battlefield studio DICE and Dead Space outfit Visceral Games are currently making new Star Wars games, joining BioWare, which will continue to support Star Wars: The Old Republic. The new games from DICE and Visceral will run on the Frostbite 3 engine.

"The new experiences we create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay," Gibeau said.

Financial terms of the EA-Disney deal were not disclosed. EA will report earnings tomorrow after market close, where more information about the deal is expected to be divulged.

The future of Star Wars: First Assault and Star Wars: 1313 are still unknown.

Disney spent $4.05 billion last October to buy the Star Wars brand.

The Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly project started relatively soon after the first project concluded. Since we received lots of feedback that players got too scared to complete the game, we shifted our attention to making the storyline more interesting, to encourage such players to overcome the scariness in wanting to see the end of the story.

The storyline is based on a dream I had after the initial project concluded. Thinking back about it, I recall it being a complete dream in many ways. The dream was scary, magical and traumatic, and it had a perfect plot — even with a title and a structured ending. Thus, it was simply a case of how to interpret the dream and recreate it as a game.

In a psychic horror scenario, it is normal for ghosts and spirits to not appear in the exact locations where they previously appeared. Even at any exact locations where spirits died, one can feel the presence every now and then. Also, the way a given spirit makes an appearance may be different on occasion.

Such never-ending loops of thoughts are the core characteristic of psychic horror.

You will find the difference after playing the game, and you will feel more difficult next time you play it. The endless vision is featured in the game. I suggest it to all who haven’t met any spiritual occasions in true life so as to find out the thing they miss.

In Supremacy 1914, the player becomes head of a mighty nation in precarious Europe after the turn of the century. He faces the challenge to become the undisputed sovereign leader of the whole continent using smart diplomacy or simply the brute force of his glorious armies.

Audacious combats and the clever development of a prospering infrastructure are the foundation for victory. Yet, absolute power is reserved to the combatant who forms the most intelligent and mightiest alliances.

Supremacy 1914 is a real-time strategy game for up to 30 participants. A sophisticated AI ensures fun even in rounds with less than 30 participants. The duration of one round varies between four to eight weeks. You play on a map where units move continuously instead of being listed in tables, like in most browser games.

*30 playable nations and intelligent computer-controlled opponents

*Units move in real-time on a historic map

*Extensive province upgrading, resource trading, and diplomacy

*Unique spy features

*Ranking, badges, and more than 10,000 parallel rounds!

Already more than 2 Million players have registered for this strategy game by Bytro Labs. Strategists can play private rounds with friends or against competitors from all around the world, and this completely free of charge.

In 2009 Supremacy 1914 won the Audience-Award in the Browser Game of the Year-election.

That's according to a product listing on Tesco Direct (the object has now been pulled down). This would tally with recent reports that the next instalment in the hugely-successful franchise would be subtitled 'Ghosts', which came from YouTube user Drift0r.

The listing also features credible box art bearing the Infinity Ward logo. The Infinity Ward studio previously worked on the tremendously popular 'Modern Warfare' entries in the long-running franchise. This would make sense since last year's Black Ops II was made by Treyarch. Has the Modern Warfare title been dropped following the high-profile departure and out-of-court settlement with Jason West and Vince Zampella? West and Zampella left after disputing royalties

There were no details about the game coming to next-gen platforms, but we did manage to see box art for PS3 and Xbox 360 before they were pulled.

Screen grab of Tesco's product listing for Call of Duty: Ghosts

But looking more closely at box art it might still be connected with the Modern Warfare titles. It depicts a character donning a mask resembling that worn by Simon 'Ghost' Reilly. Combined with the title, can we reasonably speculate that this could be a prequel centred on the popular character from Modern Warfare 2?

There’s also a release date on the image - December 30^th. It can be remarkable for the shoot game launching in early November.

Source: ign.com

What’s good is that DRAGO is currently communicating with unmentioned investors to get a great funding. It has been updated on project page of Grimlands that “We have been contacted by several investors and are in active discussions to finish the game with them. This would not have been possible without this campaign and without your support! Of course we will keep you up to date on any development!”

Bounty Hunters should have an easier go at it now, as BioWare's handing out Hydraulic Overrides and Chaff Flares to everyone. The team also redesigned the Kolto Overload skill to give the class a huge bump to survivability when it activates. Over on the Trooper side of things, the team's brought the class' resource mechanic in line with the Trooper's Bounty Hunter counterpart. All Troopers now get Hold the Line and Diversion skills, as well as a more survival-happy Adrenaline Rush.

If you play a class in the game, you’d better look through these small but important changes on advanced classes and you need to pay attention to lots of things.

Subscribers of SWTOR can purchase it for $9.99 while others must pick it for $19.99.

During a tumultuous opening week, players of Defiance will get some additional gifts. Trion Worlds admitted the game and its community have experienced all kinds of issues, so they want to show their gratitude for players with a gift package.

Current players have received several bonuses in their account, including a "Daredevil" exclusive title and one-week boosts to weapons skill, scrip, loot, and XP.

Nathan Richardsson, the Executive Producer Nathan wrote that they hope it expresses the appreciation for Defiance players.

Called "Magnet" for short, the 40,000-square-foot facility will expand the university's existing Game Center with more classes, degrees and students.

"I think it's going to be good," said Frank Lantz, NYU Game Center's director. "We're going to make Downtown Brooklyn cool."

Activision Blizzard announced today that it donated $2 million to its Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit organization that helps soldiers find jobs after their military service.

In addition, Activision Publishing announced that it raised $1.7 million for the Endowment through the sale of limited edition dog tags. These were available through the holiday season for $5 at more than 12,000 stores across the country.

"We are committed to our veterans," Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said in a statement. "They put their lives on the line for our freedom and security. They all have unique experiences, skills, and capabilities that should be highly desirable to any employer."

According to Call of Duty Endowment executive director Dan Goldenberg, the combined $3.7 million will help support the group's recently announced chapterization strategy. Through this new initiative, announced last month, grants will be given to veterans' organizations that are able to expand by opening new chapters that offer employment services for military veterans.

In 2009, Activision founded the Call of Duty Endowment with the purpose of offering funds for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other groups to seek jobs for veterans. Activision reveals that more than 1,000 veterans have found jobs up till now due to their efforts.