FIFA Will Continue to Release New Games Without EA's Partnership
Once its deal with Electronic Arts comes to a close, the FIFA organization will partner with other developers and publishers to produce officially licensed games. This year's FIFA 23 entry will mark the final title to release under the EA Sports FIFA umbrella. The publisher confirmed as much in a statement on Tuesday, May 10, telling soccer faithful that the end of the FIFA deal means the annually released sports games will bear the name of EA Sports FC come fall 2023.
EA's and FIFA's decades-long partnership began in the early 1990s with the advent of FIFA International Soccer, aka FIFA 94, in late 1993. The lucrative sports series underwent a few rebranding changes before FIFA 06 reintroduced the franchise's longest-running naming convention. Despite FIFA's incredible commercial success year after year, reports of the two entities parting ways began making the rounds in 2021. Evidently, the companies were unable to reach a satisfactory agreement about future dealings, igniting somewhat of a dispute that led EA CEO Andrew Wilson to describe FIFA's branding as an impediment to EA. Neither organization seems to believe it will suffer from the undoubtedly costly separation.
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After EA announced plans for the future of its soccer-related sports sim, the FIFA organization (via GamingBolt) released a statement to answer a fair few questions. For one, FIFA intends to align itself with other development teams and publishing partners to release non-sim and simulation games. Several non-simulation titles are currently in production and will become available on an unspecified date in Q3 2022, according to FIFA's statement. The first of such projects should offer a "tailored
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