When Electronic Arts announced exclusive rights to publish games with the Star Wars license, the news was met with some degree of cautious optimism. EA has taken its licks in recent years, but that could also mean we'd get some games that fans have been asking about for a long time. A new Battlefront game, for example, would carry a lot of weight, and EA CFO Blake Jorgensen recently hinted at just that possibility.

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The Vita version of Epic Mickey 2 is coming on June 18. The announcement of a release date came alongside some more details about how the game will take advantage of the Vita's touch screen.

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Months after acquiring Lucasfilm, Disney shuttered its games division, LucasArts. Since then, fans have wondered: what will happen to Star Wars games? Surprisingly, they won't be published by Disney Interactive. Instead, Electronic Arts has announced a "multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish globally new games based on Star Wars characters and storylines."

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Disney Infinity is including standard mission types alongside a more open-ended Toy Box mode. The Toy Box was pioneered in Toy Story 3, and Disney Interactive and Pixar naturally figured it would be a fit for Infinity as well. A new trailer shows the progression of the mode.

Watch: The evolution of the toy box »

Sega has officially confirmed what we suspected from its not-subtle-at-all teaser trailer: Castle of Illusion is coming this summer. We weren't sure if it would be a straight port or an HD remake, but a new look at the screenshots show that it's certainly the latter.

Watch: Woo hoo? »

Sega is teasing something Disney related, lending more weight to the stack of evidence that the company is planning a Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse revival. A new teaser trailer from the company promises a Disney project aiming for a summer release, and in the process shows off a few telltale Castle of Illusion references.

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Disney has closed LucasArts, and with that closure goes several of the projects. But a look back at the last few months of the developer's life reveals that cancellations and shelved projects were already ongoing at the developer, and Disney seems to have simply accelerated the process.

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Could another classic Disney platform be getting a revival? Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse looks to be getting a current-gen re-release, but will it be an HD remake a la DuckTales?

Developed and published by Sega, Castle of Illusion was originally released in 1990 for Genesis. Most recently, Disney attempted to recapture the spirit of the classic with a 3DS follow-up, Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion.

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Following the closure of Junction Point, Warren Spector wasn't quite sure what he would do. Though he's said he's "excited for the future," he hasn't given much comment on what he might do next. Even with a little time, though, he's still baffled at the closure, and starting to relax with his time off while he waits for his next project.

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Before it was put on hold and then unceremoniously canceled with the closure of LucasArts, Star Wars 1313 was a promising, albeit mysterious, game. LucasArts was notably cagey about it, only noting that the hero's character model was a placeholder without acknowledging who it would be. Now that such secrets no longer matter, sources have confirmed suspicions that the game was meant to star fan favorite character Boba Fett.

Read more: Lucas said to have changed hero just before E3 »

While it appears this generation will come and go without a proper Kingdom Hearts game, you'll be able to relive the original in HD with the 1.5 Remix coming to PS3 this fall. As previously reported, the HD collection includes an HD version of Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix and an HD version of the PS2 remake of the Game Boy Advance game Re:Chain of Memories. There's also the cinematics from the DS spinoff game, 358/2 Days, but only the movies.

If that sounds confusing, it's because it is. Just like the franchise's utterly convoluted narrative. Watch this new English language trailer, appreciate the new visuals, and scratch your head in confusion as to how Disney ever greenlit these scripts in the first place.

Watch: 'When your sleeping memories awaken, you may no longer be who you are now' »

The tale of Disney's Epic Mickey 2 doesn't have a happy ending. Warren Spector and Junction Point's platforming sequel fizzled when it launched last year, debuting to mediocre reviews. Oddly, Disney is giving the game another chance--announcing a new port of the months-old game for PS Vita.

Read more: New features for PS Vita »

The toy-game hybrid Disney Infinity has been delayed to August 18, Disney has announced. The company said the new release date puts it at a more favorable time of year than its previous June target, but even at the new date it should beat Skylanders Swap Force to market.

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Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Knights of the Old Republic 2, still wants to tinker more in the Star Wars universe. Studio CEO Feargus Urquhart says they pitched a new RPG to Lucasarts, before Disney bought it lock, stock, and barrel. Though it hasn't gotten approval from Lucasarts, Obsidian plans to keep pitching once the dust settles on the Disney deal.

Read more: Set between prequel and original trilogies »

The starter set for Disney Infinity includes characters from The Incredibles, Monsters Inc, and Pirates of the Caribbean. But of course the game will be expanding with new playsets at a fairly regular clip, and we now know of another Disney property coming: Cars.

Read more: Lightning McQueen, Mater, and more confirmed »