Electronic Arts says it expects the Star Wars: Battlefront reboot to be released “summer 2015”, around the same time as the first film in the new J.J. Abrams-directed Star Wars trilogy is in cinemas.

EA chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen suggested the date in an investors call. “We have partnered with Walt Disney and LucasFilm to develop a whole new generation of Star Wars games for the console as well as for mobile and handheld devices. The first game that we're focused on is Battlefront. It's a traditional game that's done extremely well and this will most likely come out around the same time as the Star Wars movies start to come out, probably in the summer of '15.”

Star Wars: Battlefront is in production at Battlefield development studio DICE. BioWare and Visceral are also known to be working on new Star Wars games.