EA Sports and Fifa end partnership, both eye new video games

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A new era for football games?

‘I can assure you that the only authentic, real game that has the Fifa name will be the best one available for gamers and football fans,’ Infantino said in a statement. — APvideo game in its current name, marking a split in one of football’s most successful and lucrative partnerships after the sides failed to strike a new licensing deal.

Fifa promised a “number of new non-simulation games are already under production” and will launch ahead of the 2022 World Cup that kicks off in Qatar in November. EA has been producing a Fifa game for nearly 30 years and its fond association with tens of millions of gamers worldwide helped the Zurich-based organisation’s brand when it was tarnished amid a wave of arrests of soccer officials in 2015.Though EA Sports FC will be unable to include Fifa content including the World Cup, it retains licensing deals with prime football competitions including the English Premier League and the UEFA-organised Champions League.

 

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