{"id":41760,"date":"2018-08-21T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/325042"},"modified":"2018-08-21T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T21:40:00","slug":"zynga-to-develop-a-star-wars-mobile-game-following-disney-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/21\/zynga-to-develop-a-star-wars-mobile-game-following-disney-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Zynga to develop a Star Wars mobile game following Disney partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:\u00a0<\/strong>Zynga\u00a0announced today that it has struck a multi-year deal with Disney to develop an unannounced mobile game based in the Star Wars universe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of the non-exclusive licensing deal, Zynga will take over live operations for the mobile game\u00a0<em>Star Wars: Commander<\/em>, which was published by Disney back in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/08\/21\/zynga-takes-over-star-wars-commander-and-naturalmotion-studio-will-make-star-wars-mobile-games\/\">VentureBeat<\/a>\u00a0reports that Zynga\u2019s NaturalMotion studio in the United Kingdom will develop future free-to-play Star Wars titles, with the possibility\u00a0for a second to be considered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first instance of Disney bringing the Star Wars franchise into video games, but it isn&#8217;t clear yet if the deal\u00a0with Zynga will affect EA, as the studio\u00a0partnered with Disney to develop\u00a0<em>Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes\u00a0<\/em>in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief:\u00a0Zynga\u00a0announced today that it has struck a multi-year deal with Disney to develop an unannounced mobile game based in the Star Wars universe.\u00a0 As part of the non-exclusive licensing deal, Zynga will take over live operations for the mobile game\u00a0Star Wars: Commander, which was published by Disney back in 2014.\u00a0 VentureBeat\u00a0reports that Zynga\u2019s NaturalMotion studio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}