Star Wars: Rise Against the Empire for Disney Infinity 3.0.
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Disney closes in for the kill with Star Wars: Rise Against the Empire play set for Infinity 3.0

Disney is unveiling its second Star Wars game for the Disney Infinity 3.0 “toys-to-life” video game platform today.

The Star Wars: Rise Against the Empire “play set” is one of a trio of cartoon-style Star Wars games that go with the family-friendly Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition toy-game platform that is coming later this year. The game is part of a larger Disney strategy to capture the minds of kids, and it shows Disney is serious about raising the stakes of competition with rivals that include Nintendo’s Amiibo, Warner’s Lego Dimensions, Activision’s Skylanders, and Rovio’s Angry Birds. All of those companies are going to put the squeeze on parents as their kids are going to want all of them.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.