Slate - Star Wars Battlefront represents the beginning of a new dark era in Star Wars video games. Thanks Matthew.
"Licensed video games that come out alongside big-budget movies are, with rare exceptions, notoriously shoddy. Star Wars avoided this reputation, surely, because for decades there were no movies with marketing calendars for the video games to serve (or, for one brief period, movies so bad that many video game fans had no interest in their associated games). With projections for an annual Disney release of a Star Wars movie from now until the end of time, it’s hard to imagine that the next developers to be awarded a Star Wars license won’t face a new set of restrictions aimed at protecting the brand. Here’s hoping some of them manage to break out of the movies’ grip, even if—especially if—The Force Awakens is as good as we want it to be."