Electronic Arts has opened up a new DICE Studio in Los Angeles to focus on the developing titles centered around Star Wars.
Electronic Arts has opened up a new DICE Studio in Los Angeles to focus on the developing titles centered around Star Wars. If you missed the news, EA announced an exclusive agreement with Disney to publish titles based focused in the Star Wars universe. DICE's Frostbite 3 engine will be used, the same used for Battlefield 4.
The studio is expected to hire 60 full time employees by the end of 2013. DICE general manger Karl-Magnus Troedsson told the Wall Street Journal that, "there is an extreme talent pool over [there] that we want a part of," he said. "It's no secret that our main competitor is there." A number of EA employees who worked on the Medal of Honor series have been hired back.
Source: Gamasutra
