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The Canal Esports Club has announced that it plans to stream the FIFA 17 Ultimate Team Championship Series European finals on it website and show highlights on the Canal+ Sports TV channel. The competition takes place in Paris on February 4th. Europe’s best Ultimate Team players will be battling it …
Read More »EA community manager hints at Skate 4
Skate 3’s highly-awaited sequel might finally happen – or at least that’s what we can interpret from a single random tweet. Senior manager at EA’s community engagement team Daniel Lingen simply tweeted #skate4” (see below) on Friday and everyone lost it. At the time of writing, this single tweet has …
Read More »EA announced second EA Play event in Hollywood. No E3 booth this year
EA continues to distance itself from the giant games show
Read More »Electronic Arts confirms EA Play for E3 2017
EA has announced it will renew its EA Play event at E3 this year. Like last year, it will replace the publisher’s traditional press conference and will take place just a few days before E3, between June 10th and June 12th. This year’s EA Play will be taking place at …
Read More »Dutch Eredivisie league creates FIFA 17 Ultimate Team competition
The top Dutch football league, Eredivisie, has announced plans to launch a FIFA 17 Ultimate Team league known as the E-Divisie. The league will kick off on February 6th, with all 18 Eredivisie clubs fielding a player in the competition. Seventeen rounds of games later and the winner will be …
Read More »FIFA for Nintendo Switch is based on PS3/360 version, rumour says
The Switch version of FIFA has been subject to many speculations since the game was announced during Nintendo’s conference last week. According to Eurogamer’s Tom Phillips, the title will be based off of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of FIFA, he said on Twitter (see below). EA was …
Read More »Mass Effect: Andromeda won’t have a season pass
BioWare’s GM Aaryn Flynn has revealed that Mass Effect: Andromedawon’t be getting a season pass. When asked on Twitter whether there would be a season pass, his answer was crystal clear: Nope.” He was then asked what the plans were for DLC and simply answered: We’ll talk more about that …
Read More »Emirates FA Cup FIFA 17 tournament returns with Wembley finals
If you are pretty nifty at FIFA then you could lift the FA Cup at Wembley later this year. The Emirates FA Cup gaming tournament, Every Gamer’s Adventure, which yes is its actual name and very ridiculous, takes place on May 6th and mimics the format of the real FA …
Read More »EA Exec on early FIFA: reason for success was that game was developed & published a long way from head office
EA's football franchise nearly didn't make it to market
Read More »Celtic eSports League features eight football teams from the UK and Ireland
The Celtic eSports League is a new FIFA competition that features eight football clubs from the UK and Ireland. Crusaders FC, Dundalk FC, Hamilton Academical FC, Hibernian FC, Linfield FC, Shamrock Rovers FC, TNS FC and Wolverhampton Wanderers FC are all on board and the first competition is already underway. …
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