Yet another publisher is getting into the digital card-battling space.
Publisher Electronic Arts revealed that it is making Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, which is a new collectible card game for mobile. It’ll debut later this year, and it’ll enable players to fight through a world by putting together decks filled with characters from the Star Wars movies and TV shows.
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It’s not too surprising that EA would go for something like this. It has a deal for the Star Wars license, and other releases in this genre — like Blizzard’s Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft — are making some serious bank for their publishers. Bethesda teased a card game of its own last night, The Elder Scrolls: Legends.