Cita:Electronic Arts has opened a new DICE studio in Los Angeles, with a key focus around creating new video games in the Star Wars franchise.

Although the DICE headquarters will continue to be situated in Stockholm, Sweden, the company's general manager Karl-Magnus Troedsson told the Wall Street Journal [Subscription required] that this new U.S. studio will have around 60 staffers by the end of 2013.

The move comes just a week after EA managed to secure an exclusive multi-year agreement with Disney to develop and publish games based on the Star Wars universe. DICE's Star Wars games will be powered by its high-powered Frostbite 3 engine, the same engine that powers Battlefield 3.

Troedsson noted that this new studio opening will see the company going head-to-head in the same Southern California area as its rivals, Activision's Infinity Ward and Treyarch Call of Duty operations.

"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."

The new studio has begun hired, with a number of EA employees who worked on the Medal of Honor series already on board.

The opening of this new studio comes as EA recently laid off approximately 10 percent of its overall workforce -- around 900 workers in total.

DICE abre un nuevo estudio en Los Ángeles centrado en Star Wars. Las oficinas centrales de DICE seguirán en Estocolmo y este estudio tendrá alrededor de 60 personas a finales de este año. Varios empleados de EA que han trabajado en Medal of Honor ya están en el estudio.

Resumiendo: el próximo juego de Star Wars lo hará DICE pero no lo hará DICE.

Está casi claro que será un Battlefront o similar, pero a mí me molaría más que volcaran todo lo bueno que hicieron en Mirror's Edge pero en el universo de Star Wars, o por mejor decir, cualquier cosa menos un shooter.