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EA’s pursuit of happiness

As always, Q4 will be a blockbuster season for EA. Kicking off this year’s festivities this Friday is FIFA 18, which will then be followed by Need for Speed Payback on November 10th and Star Wars: Battlefront II a week later on November 17th. However, even though these triple-A physical …

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BT Sport signs broadcast deal for EA’s global FIFA 17 Majors

BT Sport has signed a deal to broadcast EA’s global FIFA 17 competitive gaming events in the UK. The series of eSports events will see the best FIFA 17 players from around the world compete against each other to become the ultimate champion, and BT Sports customers will have a …

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EA fines Madden Bowl winner for inappropriate tweets

Chris “Dubby” McFarland, the winner of the Madden Bowl competition, has been fined $3,000 by EA for inappropriate tweets.  During and immediately after the competition McFarland posted a number of Tweets, which have since been removed, that EA deemed to be unacceptable. As a result they have fined the played …

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FIFA 18 coming to Switch, Moore confirms

EA’s FIFA title for the Nintendo Switch will be FIFA 18, EA’s chief competition officer Peter Moore has confirmed. Speaking to GameReactor at a FIFA event in Paris this weekend, Moore said that the custom-built Switch title will indeed be the next entry in EA’s long-running football franchise rather than …

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EA announces new UFC game

EA has revealed that it has another UFC title in the works. In a post on Facebook, the publisher posted a logo for the game (pictured) alongside today’s date, Tuesday November 10th. Expect more details today. The firm’s first UFC game launched in June 2014 and was exclusive to the …

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FIFA 16 will feature female teams in a series first

For the first time in the history of the FIFA series consumers will be able to play as women. FIFA 16 will feature 12 Women’s National Teams from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the USA. Bringing some of the best women’s players and …

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Rory McIlroy PGA Tour special edition includes an EA Sports umbrella

In what may be a first, UK retailer GAME is offering a golf umbrella with a special edition of upcoming Rory McIlroy PGA Tour. Usually occupied by the offer of digital add-on content or a steelbook game case, there have been some pretty strange physical pre-order bonuses in the past, …

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EA pushes Rory McIlroy PGA Tour release back one month

EA’s upcoming golf title Rory McIlroy PGA Tour won’t be coming out in its previously announced June release window. Instead the sports game will be coming out on July 14th.This is the same week as the Open Championship 2015 in St Andrews. It’s yet to be revealed if this is …

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Free-to-play EA Sports UFC launches worldwide on iOS, Android

A mobile edition of EA Sports UFC is now available as a free-to-play offering on Android and iOS. EA soft-launched the game earlier this year in Canada, Russia, Singapore, and South Korea – racking up 2m downloads ahead of this week’s worldwide launch. EA Sports UFC PS4 and Xbox One …

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