One big reason:ESPN owns the games outright, paying nothing for TVrights, sidestepping bidding wars and avoiding any risk of losing a franchise it created to a rival channel.

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The software house is shifting to a licensing model for Star Wars games, reportedly "minimizing the company's risk" while expanding the range of games on offer.

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Given the success of Star Wars, it was a good bet, but a huge risk--if the film somehow bombed, Lucas was bankrupt.

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Specialists at the NYSE, individuals who are assigned stocks and whose function it is to make orderly markets by putting their own firms' capital at risk, have been especially battered in the image wars.

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"After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimising the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games, " it read.

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Montenegro, a country whose economy relies heavily on tourism and has been developing its status as a boutique resort for wealthy Russians, has had healthy relations with Russia, thanks in part to its relatively peaceful stance during the Balkan wars, according to Sorana Parvulescu of Control Risks Group, a specialist risk consultancy.

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An ever-present risk with this kind of writing is the aestheticising of politics: real wars and famines, and real efforts to ameliorate them, tend to be treated as literary texts to be analysed or deconstructed, not as events with implications for policy and action.

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