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So its FIFA 17 with updated rosters?
I can't get no...

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FIFA Street mode, nice.

This is not so nice though:


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EA Has To Get Rights To "Each And Every Individual Athlete" For NCAA Return, Says Lawyer

In case you haven't heard, the NCAA is on its way to letting players make money off of their own likenesses, something the organization has been against since the NCAA first started being a thing. The rule against paying athletes combined with a lawsuit against the NCAA in 2014 (which claimed that NCAA games illegally profited off of students' identities) has kept EA from making any NCAA games since NCAA Football 2014.

Now that athletes can be paid, EA can start making NCAA games again, right? Well, yes, but... there's a whole lot of athletes that they need to pay and there's no single organization that can grant EA the rights to all of them.

"If Electronic Arts decides to bring back a college sports video game, it will hit a roadblock, because it has to get permission from each and every individual athlete, since there is no larger union/organization to negotiate with," said Video Game Lawyer Stephen McArthur in a statement.

The NBA, NFL, MLB, and all other professional sports organizations have players' unions that video game companies can make deals with. These deals give them the ability to have every single athlete as part of the game. No such organization exists for NCAA players. Unless that changes, that means that EA would have to work out deals with every single athlete individually. Since there are around 30,000 athletes in Division I NCAA football alone, that seems like a tall order.

To give an example that long-time video game players might be familiar with, old NBA games did not feature Michael Jordan because he chose not to take part in the National Basketball Players Association's licensing agreement. NBA games had the rights to all the other players, but not Michael Jordan -- the only games that did feature Jordan, such as NBA Street and Space Jam, had to make deals directly with him.

For the NCAA, EA would have to do that for literally everyone. That's not the only issue. McArthur says that EA would need to get University logo rights, conference logo rights, music rights, and more.

"There are so many different rights owners involved in making collegiate athletics video games," McArthur said. "An organization will need to spring into effect to aggregate the negotiating for the rights of each player so that video games don't need to independently negotiate the rights of hundreds or even thousands of separate players."

It's likely that a union will eventually sprout up to handle these issues. Until that happens, dreams of an NCAA game will most likely be delayed.

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Madden is coming to Steam for the first time.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239 ... en_NFL_21/

EA UFC 4: Boxers Fury and Joshua will reportedly appear in new game

Plus EA opens closed beta sign-ups

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EA Sports UFC 4 will reportedly feature boxers Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.

That’s according to sports journalist Brian Mazique, who revealed in a Fight Guys video that, according to his sources, the pair have agreed a deal to appear as playable characters in the unannounced fighting sequel.

EA has previously included boxers in the UFC game series, including former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.

UFC 4 has not yet been officially announced, although a logo for the game was discovered on PlayStation’s servers this month.

Overnight EA invited community players to join a PS4 and Xbox One closed beta test for “the next UFC game”. Signs ups are available on the company’s website, and in a message to fans it said the test would begin soon.

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According to Mazique, UFC 4 will feature a career mode that “isn’t drastically changed” from the previous game and instead focuses on creating and levelling up a custom fighter.

UFC 4 will release for both current and next-gen consoles, according to the journalist’s sources.

It’s likely that the game will be announced during EA’s Play Live digital showcase, which is due to take place this Thursday, June 18.

EA released the first Star Wars Squadrons trailer on Monday, ahead of a gameplay reveal at EA Play. The publisher is also expected to show a new co-operative game from A Way Out developer Hazelight Studios.

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One of the most remarkable series upgrades in recent years - FIFA 21 showcases Frostbite engine's Strand Hair Technology. Hair on select players is vastly upgraded, adding physics on each hair strand to give life-like results. Tom and Alex comb through the PS5 and Series X versions, comparing it to FIFA 21's appearance on last-gen machines.

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I'd be down with more SSX games, I've been playing Tricky on my PS2

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Or maybe we will finally get a modern version of Skitchin’!

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Sensible Soccer’s spiritual successor is coming to Switch, PS5, Xbox and more

Apple Arcade’s Sociable Soccer confirmed for April 2022

Sociable Soccer, the arcade-style football game developed by Sensible Soccer creator Jon Hare, is finally heading to the PC and consoles, thanks to a publishing deal with indie specialist Kiss.

Currently available only via Apple Arcade, Sociable Soccer will be brought to a wide range of platforms thanks to a deal between Hare’s developer Tower Studios and Kiss Publishing, the pair told VGC.

Kiss co-founder and CEO Darryl Still said: “Our target date is April 17 2022, for Easter next year. The PC version is the lead, but all the console versions will be coming at the same time: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Switch.” Hare confirmed that the initial PC/console version of the game will be branded as Sociable Soccer ‘22.

Sociable Soccer is a game very much in the vein of 90s classic Sensible Soccer, designed to align the latter’s simple, fast-paced gameplay with modern gaming technology and tastes. It has gone through a long and sometimes bumpy development process.

Hare first started working on Sociable Soccer in 2008: “We’d done the Sensible Soccer update in 2006, so I had some ideas about a football game, and I wanted to base it around the concept that, as football supporters, we all actually know which clan we gravitate to in the football world,” he explained.

In 2015, he connected with Helsinki-based Combo Breaker which has since held the Sociable Soccer development reins, and embarked on an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign.

“We decided on a price of £300,000. Which in retrospect was much too low, but actually much too high for Kickstarter. We realised after a week that we simply weren’t going to reach the target. So, we just pulled the Kickstarter, but decided to keep on developing.”

A deal with US publisher Rogue saw Sociable Soccer debut on Apple Arcade in November 2019, since followed by two new iterations named Sociable Soccer 2020 and ‘21. Hare is happy with how the game has performed on Apple Arcade, but excited by the prospect of it coming to the PC and consoles.

He says: “At the end of May, after patiently looking for the right partner, we managed to strike a deal with Kiss Publishing. Now we’re able to activate all that PC/console stuff that we couldn’t do on mobile. Obviously graphically, we can push things further, and also there is a whole bunch of features we want to put into the game, which we can now launch with on the PC/console side. So, it’s an exciting time. “

Apart from looking notably better than the Apple Arcade version screenshots accompanying this article, if all goes to plan, the PC and console versions of Sociable Soccer 22 will, according to Hare, be: “The full vision of everything we want to do.”

He said: “We’re in the rolling feast of the development world these days, so there are features that we’ll get in for the version in April, and then there will be more features as we go along, rolling out every six months or so.”

Hare says those features will include an upgraded animation engine, along with improvements to game mechanics, ball mechanics and the camera: “Effectively, we’re almost branching development into the next generation of engine.”

He also details intended tweaks to the clan-clash system, which unlocks when you reach level 10 in the game and lets you represent your chosen clan-team against other players, and trails the addition of a clever Legends system which will allow Sociable Soccer 21 players to collect legendary players from their chosen clubs and the wider football world.

“We’ve now put the final piece in the jigsaw, which is the PC/console to go with the mobile publishing that we had.” Come April 17, 2022, Sensible Soccer fans will finally be able to experience Jon Hare’s vision of a modern version of that much-loved, pioneering game.

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Sources: EA has greenlit a Fight Night revival, but it’s ‘on pause’

The new game, codenamed ‘Moneyball’, has entered early development and will resume after UFC 5

Electronic Arts is set to revive its classic boxing series Fight Night in the near future, development sources have said.

According to people with knowledge of the EA Sports label’s plans, the new Fight Night, which is currently codenamed ‘Moneyball’, has been greenlit and entered early development.

However, the series’ first instalment in a decade is still likely several years from release. This is due to EA Canada’s decision to temporarily pause its core development in order to prioritise the next EA Sports UFC game, which is planned for late next year.

In a studio-wide e-mail seen by VGC, EA Canada told staff that its focus would be on EA Sports UFC 5 for the foreseeable future.

The e-mail explained that strong marketplace competition had made it challenging to staff up for Fight Night, which was intended to enter production alongside UFC, and that it did not want to split its senior creatives between two fighting game projects.

Thus the decision has been made to pause the game’s development “for the time being” to ensure that UFC 5 will be delivered at “high quality”, the email reads.

“We’re very excited about UFC 5 and… we want to eliminate the split focus that several members of our leadership team have had over the past while so we can solely focus on delivering migration and UFC 5 at high quality,” it reads.

Not much is currently known about the new boxing game, but it’s understood that EA sees the revival as a means of reasserting itself in the fighting game market.

Asked for comment on this story, an Electronic Arts spokesperson pointed to the company’s policy of not responding to “rumours and speculation.”

Fight Night: Eddie Hearn ‘pitched idea’

The Fight Night series, which last saw a release with 2011’s Fight Night Champion, had been consistently well-received by critics, with all five of its instalments earning Metacritic scores in the mid-to-high 80s.

It’s been suggested that over the past decade, complications around licensing the likenesses of the world’s biggest boxers – and the increasingly high fees for doing so – had encouraged EA to focus on UFC, with which it could agree on a blanket deal for all its athletes.

However, there have been calls from both fans and the boxing world for the series to return and EA is aware of the demand, we were told.




Last year both Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua appeared as pre-order bonuses for UFC 4, and the former’s promoter Eddie Hearn claimed last year that he had pitched a Fight Night game to EA.

“I’ve got this littler Fight Night idea which I’ve pitched to EA Sports,” he said during a live stream video (embedded above).

“It’s not just a virtual game, it’s much more complicated than that… I had a call the other day with EA Sports and I keep telling them that every time I mention Fight Night on social media it goes mad.

“I think the return of EA Sports Fight Night would be huge.”

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