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FIFA Enters NFT Arena, Offering Fans Digital Collectibles and World Cup Tickets
12.12.2023
Source: AdobeStock / Taljat FIFA, the famous international governing body for football, has announced a new digital collectible collection in its first collaboration with tech firm Modex – with some notable perks. ‘FIFA+ Collect’ will be dropping the “dual digital...
EA’s Next Soccer Game Is Turn-Based And Looks Like An RPG
13.10.2023
EA’s next soccer game is going to be a bit different than most of its countless sports releases. That’s because, unlike FIFA or Madden, its upcoming FC Tactical is a turn-based RPG-like soccer game featuring magical-seeming special moves. Weird, but intriguing! Read more
Even Fans Are Shocked By EA Sports FC 24’s ‘Awful’ $30 Loot Box
2.10.2023
EA Sports FC 24, the latest soccer game in the series previously known as FIFA, has only been out for a little over a week and its loot box antics are already causing some fans to lose it in frustration. The Elite Season Opener Pack costs $30 and went live during the game’s paid “early access”...
EA Pulls Every Old FIFA Game From Digital Storefronts
27.9.2023
You can no longer buy last year’s hit soccer game, FIFA 23. Nor any other older game from the famous Electronic Arts sports franchise. At least, not digitally.Read more
FIFA 23 ‘Revenge Game’ Trend Sees Fans Rewriting The Women’s World Cup
17.8.2023
If you, like me, are furious that your team is out of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, there’s a TikTok trend that serves as a good outlet for your rage. All you have to do is boot up FIFA 23 and get your revenge by beating the absolute piss out of, say, Sweden, racking up the score until it’s high...
Women Are Staying In FC 24 Ultimate Team, Go Cry About It
18.7.2023
EA FC 24, the first post-FIFA soccer game from the sports mega-publisher, isn’t out until September 23, but the team behind it is already putting out fires lit by giant adult babies. Read more
Real Madrid & Barcelona's League Is Now Named After EA Sports
6.7.2023
La Liga, Spain’s top flight of professional football and home to some of the world’s biggest clubs—like Barcelona and Real Madrid—has signed a new sponsorship deal that sees its previous branding (“La Liga Santander”) swapped out, with the league now to be known as LALIGA EA SPORTS.Read more
It Is June 2023 And EA Wants To Add NFTs To FIFA & Madden
5.6.2023
EA Sports and Nike announced yesterday that, at some point in the “future”, games like FIFA and Madden will feature integration with .Swoosh, which Nike describes as its “new digital community experience”.Read more
PlayStation Has To Pay Back Some Loot Boxes After Court Ruling
17.5.2023
Over the past few years EA’s FIFA series has been the target of multiple investigations and government hearings across Europe, with some countries concerned that the game’s flagship Ultimate Team mode is basically gambling, and others convinced that it is and taking action.Read more
Nifty News: Gucci to drop Otherside pendants, Jack Daniels taps AR, Web3 and more
4.4.2023
Jack Daniels is dropping digital collectibles in an AR game, while FIFA launched an AI-football simulation game that will eventually ship NFT integrations
Women’s Pro Soccer Players React To Their Terrible FIFA 23 Characters
23.3.2023
The FIFA 23 lords giveth, and the FIFA 23 lords taketh away. Fans have been asking for the National Women’s Soccer League to be added to the game for over a decade, and EA finally dropped all 12 teams (plus the UWCL) into the game yesterday. Unfortunately for the women on those rosters, their...
Fans Dunk On FIFA Promising New Soccer 'egame'
16.3.2023
This will be the first year since 1993 that there won’t be a new FIFA game after Electronic Arts abandoned the exclusive license once negotiations reportedly broke down over the renewal price. FIFA President Gianni Infantino swears the FIFA series will return, however, promising “FIFA 25, 26,...
FIFA Loot Boxes Violate Austrian Gambling Laws, Court Rules
7.3.2023
Loot boxes have been a thorn in gamers’ sides for as long as they’ve been around, with lawsuits and players deriding them as exploitative gambling mechanics. EA has been a prominent example of publishers using loot boxes, and its massively popular soccer game FIFA is no exception. FIFA’s Ultimate...
RIP John Motson, 1945-2023
24.2.2023
The world received some very sad news earlier today when we learned that legendary English football commentator John Motson, whose career spanned decades (and included very long stints in video games), had passed away at the age of 77.Read more
Report: EA Paying $588 Million For The Rights To The English Premier League
13.2.2023
Programming and gameplay be damned, sports games live and die on their licensing. It’s why Madden was able to crush NFL2K, and it’s why EA’s FIFA (now known as EA Sports FC) has been able to grind Konami’s PES into the dust. Not because they’re better games, but because they paid to be the only...
Congress Wants To Know What The Biggest Game Companies Are Doing To 'Combat Extremism'
16.12.2022
A group of seven lawmakers are sending a letter to the world’s biggest video game companies tomorrow, asking each of them what steps they’re taking to combat “harassment and extremism” in online video games.Read more
Nifty News: Winamp adds NFT support, Atari gets physical and more
7.12.2022
Atari has teamed up with Pixels.com for physical NFT artworks and Investopedia has given a rundown on NFT tax law
Fan tokens struggle to hold on as World Cup quarter-finals draw nearer
7.12.2022
Soccer fan tokens have seen their prices and trading volumes plummet since the start of the World Cup on Nov. 20
Argentina’s fan token sinks 31% after World Cup loss against Saudi Arabia
23.11.2022
The price of soccer fan tokens, designed for fan engagement, is seemingly impacted by the on-field performance of teams
Fortnite's Unofficial World Cup-Themed Skins Offer Pride Color Customization
22.11.2022
The current men’s football (soccer) Wold Cup in Qatar feels like the clearest exemplar for everything wrong in the world. From its origins in a bribery scandal, to the horrendous deaths of migrant workers to make it happen, to the international support for the competition despite it being held in...