Star Wars Battlefront 2 official, will arrive in 2017

Star Wars Battlefront 2 will be based on the contents of the new Star Wars movie and will be released in the course of 2017, presumably in the Christmas season. The Electronic Arts' commitment to the Star Wars brand does not stop there, as the project of Visceral Games now underway for several years will be realized in 2018. This time should be the single player experience, since it is run by two renowned authors like Amy Hennig and Jade Raymond.

EA intends to further devote himself to Star Wars and, in addition to the two already mentioned titles, will do so with the recently revealed new game in the third person entrusted to Respawn Entertainment, the team responsible Titanfall and is developing simultaneously Titanfall 2 (due out at the end of 2016).

The draft Visceral Games before mentioned is the landmark agreement reached with Disney was the first to be revealed and is being worked on since at least 2014. It will be edited by the team already appreciated for the Dead Space series and, as mentioned, directed by the makers of sagas such as Uncharted and Assassin's Creed.

On a non-GAAP basis, revenue for the full fiscal year 2016 amounted to 4.566 billion dollars, of which 55% is related to sales in the digital format. The non-GAAP operating margin was 28.5% and diluted earnings per share of $ 3.14. Each of these figures is a record compared to the previous fiscal year results EA.