NFL football is going virtual in the first officially licensed football game by the league set to be released this Fall. The NFL, along with StatusPRO Inc. and the NFL players association, brings us NFL Pro Era, the first virtual game that puts you in the shoes (and helmet) of NFL quarterbacks like Lamar Jackson. […]
Enlarge / Ars Technica’s MS Paint interpretation of what appears to be a finalized divorce between EA Sports and FIFA. (credit: EA Sports / Sam Machkovech) Hidden amidst the usual “coming this fall” slate of video game announcements is one big change: the extrication of “FIFA” from all future EA Sports products. On Thursday, Giant […]
Enlarge / Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Yes, the colon comes after the “Jedi.” (credit: EA) EA and Lucasfilm Games have jointly announced that three new Star Wars games are in development at Respawn, the studio that developed Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Among those three planned games is a sequel to Fallen Order, which was […]
The phrase “once in a generation” seems to be tossed too often, far more often than it should be in sports, but when it came to John Madden, this couldn’t even begin to sum up what he represented. Madden passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday but left a lasting legacy unlike any we’ve ever seen. Read […]
Enlarge / Knifin’ around. Cutcutcutcutcutcutcutcut. Popular first-person shooter video game Titanfall 2 has been rumored to have a severe security vulnerability that has been exploited. The reports of the game having been hacked started circulating on Twitter after Titanfall 2 community members, including Leon Benkovic, were seen urging players to uninstall the game: Several members of the […]
The Dead Space remake is aiming to look even better than this when it launches on an unannounced date. [credit: EA ] Thirteen years after EA first scared players senseless with Dead Space, the publisher confirmed plans for a stem-to-stern remake of the sci-fi survival horror classic. The brief, cinematic sizzle reel of brooding tracking […]
As the name suggests, F1 2021 is this year’s official Formula 1 racing sim. [credit: Electronic Arts ] If you’re old enough to have started playing video games by the turn of the century, the words “EA releases a new Formula 1 game” might strike fear into your heart. After all, the gaming behemoth published […]
Enlarge / The ball is the latest consoles. The player in blue is EA. The player in red is the PC. (credit: EA ) The PC version of the upcoming FIFA 22 will be missing certain features available on the latest generation of consoles and Google’s Stadia streaming platform. The PC version will be comparable […]
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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Game maker Electronic Arts and the Presque Isle Police Department in Maine are responding to an event they had both been dreading: the theft of gigabytes of private data by hackers who breached their Internet-connected networks. In EA’s case, the theft included 780GB of source code and tools for FIFA 21, […]