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The MMA focused franchise is apparently coming back.

EA rather quietly announced that they are bringing back their UFC games. The mixed martial arts will return with UFC 5, which was announced in a super basic announcement through Twitter earlier today.

The tweet says "Coming soon" and notes that there will be a full reveal of the game coming this September.

The first game based off of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) brand came about in...

EA Games is being renamed EA Entertainment as part of a big internal shakeup.

A major reorganization is underway at Electronic Arts. A message from CEO Andrew Wilson highlights a massive reorganization at EA that he says will "empower our creative teams."

This reorganization at Electronic Arts begins with the splitting of EA Games and EA Sports. EA Games will henceforth be named EA Entertainment. This seems like a clear indication that EA plans to expand beyond...

This is the one where you turn left AND right.

EA Sports F1 23 is out now for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via the EA App, Steam, and Epic Games Store. This is the official game of the FIA Formula One World Championship featuring real F1 teams, handling upgrades compared to last year, and new "Precision Drive technology for pad play."

Precision Drive will supposedly "revolutionize pad play and give players a greater sense...

All those next-gen advancements are coming to the PC for the first time.

This is it. This is the year that football fans on PC have been waiting a while for. EA announced today that EA Sports Madden NFL 24 will be the first release that offers up all of those next-gen features to the PC crowd. This means that stuff like FieldSense and the new Sapien Technology will be included on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC versions of the game.

EA Sports says that Sapien...

EA Sports College Football is still a long way away.

EA says that their anticipated release of EA Sports College Football will not be released until Summer 2024 at the earliest. This is the same College Football title that was announced in early 2021.

The lengthy development time is, according to EA VP and general manager Daryl Holt, due to the team building the game from scratch. Holt made this remarks to ESPN in a new interview. Holt says that the Summer 2024 target...

Streamers and fans are calling for a boycott against MUT pack purchases.

A story from Polygon sheds light on what fans and streamers for Madden NFL 23 are calling a "Pack Strike." Through the power of social media and Twitch, the hashtag #PACKSTRIKE started to gain momentum earlier this week. It began when the biggest Madden streamers and "influencers" said that they are not going to purchase premium currency for use in Madden Ultimate Team (MUT).

Their...

The fictional character and fictional team are really being added to FIFA 23.

With this being the last official FIFA release from Electronic Arts, I get the feeling that they're just kind of going "the heck with it, let's go for broke." Today, EA and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that the fictional character of Ted Lasso and his equally fictional team, AFC Richmond, will be included in FIFA 23.

Ted Lasso is an Apple TV show that debuted in...

The free trial weekend is only for those on consoles.

From September 8 and running through September 11, those with an Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, or PlayStation 5 can play Madden NFL 23 for free. The free trial is being offered because the start of the NFL season begins this week.

You may think that sales are suffering for this year's release of Madden, but apparently that's not the case. EA says that Madden NFL 23 has seen a 30% increase in the number of...

The annual hockey title from EA Sports will be out on October 14.
Electronic Arts announced an October 14 release date for NHL 23. On this date, the game will arrive on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. There is, sadly, still no PC release for the franchise.

This year, EA says that NHL 23 will place a greater focus on "social play never before seen in the franchise." This simply means that there will now be cross-platform matchmaking included...

Uh, what?

Electronic Arts and Marvel just announced a collaboration that will see "a new cast" joining FIFA Ultimate Team in FIFA 23. The new cast of FIFA Ultimate Team Heroes will see a number of players that are "reimagined and inspired by Marvel Comics."

Specifically, this collaboration will "bring some of the game's fan favorites to the game and celebrate their larger-than-life cult hero status alongside the amazing artists at Marvel."...

This comes after years of really buggy releases.

Madden NFL 23 developer, EA Sports, says that this year's release will be the "most polished" version in quite some time. This comes after years of fan complaints over long-standing bugs that have plagued the series, notably with the next-gen releases. The biggest complaints over recent years focused on how the game felt unpolished, the same ol' same ol' presentation year after year, and game modes that were just lacking when...

The Italian football club will return in this year's annual installment.

Electronic Arts just announced that they have partnered with Juventus. Juventus is said to be "one of the biggest and most successful Italian football clubs in the world." The two have entered into a new, multi-year partnership that will begin with Juventus returning in EA Sports FFIFA 23, which is slated to release on September 30.

This makes EA an exclusive video game partner for Juventus....

Russian teams were removed in FIFA 22 and will stay removed for FIFA 23.

FIFA 23 was just announced and with that came fresh information concerning all of the new and improved features being made in this year's release. Those new and improved features include the announcement of HyperMotion2 technology improvements for the next-gen releases, the addition of the men's FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 plus the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023.

We also learned...

Who needs FIFA? Not EA apparently.

It's no surprise that EA and FIFA haven't seen eye to eye over these past several months. FIFA wanted to charge EA a cool $1 billion (USD) every four years to continue using the FIFA license. EA balked at the idea, citing the cost and creative restrictions as the reason, and decided to part ways from FIFA going forward.

Today, EA officially announced that after the release of FIFA 23, the studio will officially change the name of their...

The return of EA's golf franchise arrives next year.

EA has been getting out some bits and pieces of information on their return to the video game golf world for a while now. Today, the company finally revealed when their next entry will be released sometime during Spring 2023.

The new game will be called simply EA Sports PGA Tour without any sort of year or other designation. EA managed to secure the rights to all four major championships: Masters Tournament, PGA Championship,...