A fresh title update for EA Sports FC 25 has just dropped, with the developer saying it's still making more progress on combvatting issues which've been highlighted in player feedback.
]]>Microsoft has announced the first wave of January Game Pass line-up, kicking off the new year with a selection of new titles for subscribers to check out. Though, if you're a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber playing on Xbox, you're only getting one new game.
]]>It's that time of year again. Voting for EA Sports FC 25's Team of the Year is now open, giving you your yearly chance to nominate the players from the men's and women's games that you think have been setting the world alight for a card that streamers will blow thousands on being able to scream at.
]]>Balatro, which was a runner up for The Game Awards' Game of the Year award, is certainly a popular game. However, for months now it's been plagued with a black mark of sorts on digital storefronts. This, a Pegi 18 rating indicating the game is for adults only, remains after months of pushback, despite other games with real gambling staying up at a 3+ rating. Earlier today, the solo dev of Balatro brought issue to the issue yet again.
]]>EA Sports has just released the early access for FC Empires, a new football 4X Strategy game that’s kind of like Football Manager meets Clash of Clans.
]]>EA Sports FC 25 just got a hefty new update dubbed First Frost, and it's brought a bunch of changes to the game as we barrel towards the festive period. There are some new additions, and a whole to lot of changes in response to stuff players haven't been happy with.
]]>Football and fashion have grown side-by-side for decades. From the short-shorts Seventies, v-necked Eighties and dazzle camouflage Nineties to the retro-inspired styles riffing on those motifs today, a great design can make a kit stand out, but it’s the players who wear it that turn a shirt into an icon.
]]>Division Rivals is one of the main ways to earn rewards in FC 25's Ultimate Team mode.
]]>FUT Champs is available now in FC 25, with EA making some big changes to how the Ultimate Team mode works.
]]>If you want to learn more about the behind-the-scenes path that's led EA's Madden series to the point it's at with this year's confusingly named Madden NFL 25, I've got good news for you. It's In The Game: Madden NFL, a documetary about the series, is set to drop on Amazon Prime Video later this month.
]]>If you've been playing EA Sports FC 25 and the Silent Hill 2 Remake over the past couple of months, an indie game looks like it could be right up your alley. It's called FEAR FA 98 and it's a "horror arcade soccer simulator" that's just launched a Kickstarter.
]]>EA Sports FC 25's third title update is now available for those on PS4 and Xbox One, with other platforms set to follow "soon". What are you getting with it? Well, a lot, including some balacing tweaks and nerfs it's worth being aware of.
]]>When Claude Makelele moved from Real Madrid to Chelsea at the height of Galacticos era, Zinedine Zidane famously said: “Why put another layer of gold paint on the Bentley when you’re losing the entire engine?”
]]>The new Champions League format is upon us, bringing with it a new way to upgrade your Road to the Knockouts (RttK) cards in EA Sports FC 25.
]]>With new goalkeeping PlayStyles and the now the all-important PlayStyles+ available as well, the best Goalkeepers in EA Sports FC 25 are better than ever.
]]>The days of slow centre backs are long gone, with the best CBs in EA Sports FC 25 all boasting top speeds that rival even the quickest of attackers.
]]>No position has changed more in modern football than the full-back. But in EA Sports FC 25, you can finally reflect this evolution in your own tactical set-up, utilizing the best left-backs and right-backs both in build-up and the attacking third, as well as in defence.
]]>With the new features in EA Sports FC 25, the midfield has received a bigger shake-up than anywhere else on the pitch. Now, thanks to the huge amount of new Player Roles that can be performed, there’s more variety and nuance for the best midfielders in EA Sports FC 25 to exploit than ever.
]]>Whether they’re overlapping to cross or cutting inside to score, Wingers are the most versatile attackers in modern football, using pace, trickery and technical dribbling to beat opponents and create big chances.
]]>The jury is still out on whether Striker is the most important position in football, but it’s definitely the most exciting. Scoring goals grabs headlines, but it takes a specialized skill set to do it consistently. However, the best Strikers in EA Sports FC 25 can do just that.
]]>With a host of new features and a new class of Wonderkids, Career Mode is back with a bang in EA Sports FC 25 and there’s no greater feeling than nurturing some of the hottest young talents in world football to European domination, especially if you’ve taken your own club all the way up from the bottom of the pyramid.
]]>With these EA Sports FC 25 tactics codes, you can emulate the best formations from both the greatest managers in club football and the top eSports pros to grace the pitch.
]]>A new year, a new list of songs that you'll listen to as you experiece the highs and lows of doing a virtual football. EA Sports FC 25's soundtrack has been revealed, with both yer das, not quite yet yer das and non-yer das all currently busy offering their two cents as to whether it features enough of what they consider indie bangers.
]]>This past year, the handegg team I follow – the Seattle Seahawks – missed the playoffs. They weren’t terrible by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, there were some genuinely fun moments peppered throughout their stumble to a 9-8 record. Here’s to you, Jake Bobo, and to you, Geno Smith, for being a nice guy to Drew Lock.
]]>UPDATE (17/07/24, 5:10 PM BST): EA Sports FC 25 has now been revealed, make sure you read our preview of it for plenty of info on the changes it's bringing. For example, it's implementing a paid season pass for Ultimate Team, Career Mode and Pro Clubs and will finally include duplicate storage for untradeable Ultimate Team items.
]]>As of today, June 6, if you hop into EA Sports FC 24, you'll be able to take on a bunch of new content themed around this year's big international tournament - UEFA Euro 2024.
]]>OK, so for the past few years, the Los Angeles Chargers - one of LA's NFL teams - have announced the schedule for the upcoming season in pretty entertaining fashion. This year, The Sims 2 has been chosen to host this reveal of who Justin Herbert and co will be playing against and when - creating something that both Sims fans and those of us who like American football can enjoy together.
]]>A recent change to how EA Sports FC 24 is distributing some Champions Player Pick rewards hasn't gone down well with a lot of Ultimate Team players. The backlash to the tweak EA made over the weekend has seen folks accuse the developer of deliberately making it harder for them to acquire a couple of new Team of the Season cards, with some even announcing their intention to boycott buying FC points.
]]>Hello there, EA Sports FC 24 lovers. I know it's been a little while and you've just started getting some nice Team of the Season Ultimate Team upgrades to collect, but a fresh title update's also just rocked up for the game. Sadly, it's without any freaky red and blue non-humans to demo changes, and it stops you from, er, avoiding unemployment.
]]>EAFC’s first ever Team of the Season event kicks off with a special Live TOTS promo, setting out a team of top-performing players whose stats can be boosted even further depending on their team’s performance in the run-in.
]]>Good news, people who distinctly remember having had at least one football-shaped birthday cake as a child - EA Sports FC 24’s getting a bunch of new cards in celebration of the series Ultimate Team mode having been a thing for 15 whole years.
]]>You know the strangely captivating not quite people EA’s previously used to show off some of the changes in EA Sports FC 24’s biggest updates? Well, it’s time for a sizeable spring overhaul and I’m glad to report that they’re back, baby!
]]>You know those incredibly detailed replicas of every member of your family, including your beloved local pseudo-celebrities, that you’ve spent hours creating as players in EA Sports FC 24? Well, thanks to the game’s latest title update, they’re no longer in grave danger.
]]>Good news, some of the cards in EA Sports FC 24 Ultimate Team are being updated with dynamic images. Unfortunately, it looks like one of them’s ended up with the wrong one, thanks to an unfortunate mix-up caused by two very skilled Spaniards having very similar names.
]]>The Ultimate Team store of EA Sports FC 24 is now home to a new section featuring packs designed to reward players for doing things like logging into the mode regularly, but the fact these goodies aren’t being dished out for free hasn’t gone down too well with the game’s community.
]]>Some fresh cards arrived in EA Sports FC 24’s Ultimate Team over the weekend, and they’re all players who either are or were once wonderkids - Future Stars, if you will. Naturally, Wayne Rooney’s one of the Icons that’s come with the event, and players can’t quite decide whether the fact his supposedly younger in-game model looks about 35 is accurate.
]]>It’s that time of year again - ‘the big game’ is upon us. Some watch for the football, some for the commercials, or half time - or just the crazy spectacle in general. While I am an NFL fan and will be rooting for the 49ers tonight (anyone but the Chiefs), my thoughts are preoccupied the same way they are every time American Football steals all the headlines: on Blitz.
]]>The air is thick with the smell of hotdogs, sweat, and anticipation. The Baltimore Ravens and Detroit Lions, having made it through their respective championship games against Kansas City and San Francisco, just like most of us hoped they would, have marched out onto the field to take their shots at glory.
]]>Look what time it is! Time for a new EA Sports FC 24 update. This one comes with plenty of changes as per, with the biggest ones being good news for Ultimate Team lovers who’re at risk of misplacing their evolved players and bad news for folks who like firing off outside foot shots.
]]>Last week was a pretty tumultuous one in the world of EA Sports FC 24, but at least EA’s now taken some action aimed at rectifying the problems people have been running into in pro clubs for a little while now.
]]>After a dodgy SBC accidentally gave out far more Team of the Year Lionel Messi to EA Sports FC 24 players than it should have, EA has announced what it’s doing about the mishap. Unfortunately, the game’s community isn’t convinced that the publisher’s maths properly reflects how many cards were mistakenly dished out.
]]>Title update number eight for EAFC 24 has arrived, but only on last-gen consoles to start off with. In addition to the usual bug fixes, it brings updates to kits, boots, and the beautiful faces of some players.
]]>It's that time of the year once again in EA Sports FC 24, with the eagerly anticipated TOTY promotion launching today. The first batch of Team of the Year cards are available in Ultimate Team packs now, and there's one big change compared to previous promotions.
]]>Title update number seven for EA Sports FC 24 has arrived, and headlining its fairly substantial array of fixes and revisions are a bunch of changes to how the game’s passing mechanics behave.
]]>Some EA Sports FC 24 players think that EA isn’t giving enough attention in terms of special cards to a number of ‘smaller’ leagues around the world that people like to use to add a bit of diversity to their squads.
]]>Following the death of legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer, some EA Sports FC 24 players have expressed their hopes that he might make a return to the series formerly known as FIFA’s Ultimate Team mode following a hiatus.
]]>The squads of nominees for EA Sports FC 24’s version of the annual Team of the Year - TOTY for short - have been revealed, with voting set to begin today to decide which players should qualify to receive a swanky blue Ultimate Team card this year.
]]>EA is planning to deliver an update on EA Sports College Football on the day of this year’s NCAA College Football Playoff National Championship game, a report has claimed.
]]>The start of a new year can only mean one thing for EA FC 24 fans, and that's the Team of the Year release is just around the corner. Historically, when the footie series was known as FIFA, the new TOTY cards always launched in January for Ultimate Team.
]]>2023 is almost over, and there’s certainly an argument to be made that it may be one of, if not the best year in video games. That’s based on the number of quality games released over the last 12 months, of course, not the record-breaking number of layoffs - another area where it might also be a “winner.”
]]>Electronic Arts has released some interesting figures about some of its games.
]]>The latest new season to arrive in eFootball 2024 comes with a bunch of new additions headlined by the new “My League” game mode and fixes designed to improve your ball-kicking experience.
]]>EAFC 24’s big Holiday Update is here to fill your shinpad-enhanced stockings with tweaks and additions to the game, some of which EA has decided to show off in pretty bizarre fashion.
]]>Codemasters has become the latest entry on the long list of places throughout the games industry to be hit by layoffs this year.
]]>EAFC 24 has roared back to the head of the UK physical sales charts following Black Friday, likely due to the fact it was being sold for a lot less money in a lot of places during that week.
]]>In time for Black Friday, EAFC 24 Thunderstruck players and Icons have dropped, offering a new upgradable set of special cards to add to your best teams. Including new Playstyle Plus abilities on popular meta players, there are tons of exciting cards like juiced up Vini Jr and Varane, as well as Quick Step Ronaldinho and Power Shot Cruyff.
]]>If you’ve yet to splash out on EAFC 24, now’s a great time to do so thanks to some killer Black Friday deals, which could see you save up to 50% of the game’s original release price.
]]>A free update is set to bring UEFA Euro 2024 to EAFC 24 next summer, so you’ll be able to play along and experience the gut-wrenching agony of your nation being knocked out on penalties in the quarter-finals.
]]>EA Sports FC 24’s Ultimate Team store has received a new update, and the main thing it looks to do is re-arrange the packs on offer so that a bunch of more expensive/flashy ones are now displayed a bit more prominently.
]]>Feeling frustrated with the experience currently on offer in EAFC 24? Well, if you’re interested, EA is looking for volunteers to provide it with feedback on teams and players.
]]>Rally cars, despite being very complex, are very simple beasts.
]]>The patch notes for EAFC 24’s soon-to-be-deployed fifth title update have arrived and, as usual, it’s chock full of fixes aimed at a number of frustrating and bizarre issues.
]]>The Centurions Striker Evolution in EAFC 24 gives an amazing pace boost and the Rapid Playstyle to a strong forward with an already solid overall rating. This means that the best players you can use in this Evolution are already pretty good - this just pushes them over the top.
]]>The Centurions Centre Back Evolution in EAFC 24 offers a great pace boost to a slew of already strong defenders, while also buffing their passing to an incredible level.
]]>According to the bigwigs at Electronic Arts, EAFC 24’s launch managed to turn the popular FIFA series into a “powerful, interactive platform for the future of football fandom.”
]]>Evolutions in EAFC 24 were pitched as a way to upgrade your lesser-used but most beloved players so that they could compete with the rats and meta players. The Centurions Box-to-box midfielder Evolution does not do that.
]]>The Centurions Sharpshooter Evolution in EAFC 24 is what the new Evolutions system is all about: taking a lesser known star and turning them into an unstoppable beast that can mix it with the best in the world.
]]>The Trailblazer Centre Back Evolution in EAFC 24 turns an otherwise unassuming defender into a demon in both boxes, giving them the Aerial Playstyle to outjump their opponents, Power Header to increase the speed of their shots and clearances, and Acrobat to weasel their way onto the ball with strange animations.
]]>Whether it's Ansu Fati, Darwin Nunez or Timo Werner, so far in EAFC 24 the Evolutions system has given us a slew of overpowered forwards, and this Trailblazers Striker Evolution looks to unlock a host of fun new options to play with.
]]>They’re reviewing it.
]]>While EA Sports FC 24 has recently been plagued by some sticky ball-related issues, it’s still arguably top of the footy gaming table for non-Football Manager converts. Though, a fresh challenger is currently getting ready to head out onto the pitch and it looks pretty promising.
]]>Last week, if you can believe it, some incredibly sticky balls were causing issues in EAFC 24. Luckily, it now seems that, following a temporary fix, the game’s upcoming title update might solve the problem in more permanent fashion.
]]>The latest free player upgrade in EAFC 24 is the Trailblazers Slide Tackler Evolution which gives a left back boosted pace, technical and defending stats, as well as the Slide Tackle+ Playstyle.
]]>With the Trailblazers Interceptor Evolution in EAFC 24 you can turn an otherwise average midfielder into a defensive demon, capable of nicking the ball away from attacking players and progressing it up the pitch with juiced dribbling and physical stats.
]]>FC 24 Ultimate Team has more meta players than ever before. That’s thanks to the introduction of women’s leagues and Playstyles, giving players access to more of the world’s top professionals, while also turning some previously irrelevant players into true competitors with unique powers.
]]>The latest issue causing havoc in some EAFC 24 matches involves some incredibly sticky balls, because of course it does.
]]>While EAFC 24 is riding pretty high, having topped the European sales charts during September, its launch performance in the region is lagging a bit behind that of predecessor FIFA 23.
]]>The Premier League, in collaboration with EA Sports, has announced that the ePremier League will return for a sixth season with a £100,000 prize pool, and registration is now open. This is the first time the tournament will take place in EA Sports FC 24 after EA's split with long-time partners FIFA.
]]>If you’re an Xbox player and have had some trouble starting online matches in EA Sports FC 24 recently, it might comfort you to know that you’re not the only one having problems.
]]>The third title update to EAFC 24 has just been rolled out earlier today and aims to rectify a litany of in-game issues, which range from the frustrating to the kind of hilarious.
]]>I know precisely one person who is good at driving and got precisely one piece of advice before sliding behind the wheel in EA WRC: “You’ve got to be smooth and not stab at the controls.”
]]>After 16 years on its proprietary Ego engine, Codemasters is developing EA WRC using Unreal 5, and will only release the game on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
]]>Love them or loathe them, one of the most discussed staples of any EA Sports game is the skill ratings used to quantify the ability of athletes. However, for the first iteration at least, EA WRC won’t have driver skill ratings for the licensed teams.
]]>As it turns out, EA’s decision to ditch the FIFA license for its games about kicking a round thing around a patch of green stuff doesn’t look to have affected the series’ momentum, with EA Sports FC 24 having seen 11.3 million players take to the pitch during its first week post-release.
]]>Disney boss Bob Iger’s underlings have been trying to convince the exec to set the company on the path to becoming a “gaming giant”, via the purchase of a big publisher.
]]>In the aftermath of his retirement from professional football, EAFC 24 players have been busy debating which kind of Ultimate Team card Eden Hazard should receive going forwards.
]]>Most of the time while you’re playing EAFC 24, you’re not actually controlling the keeper, so you’re placing your trust in the sometimes unpredictable AI to make the right decisions for you. Because of this, a lot of the perception around who the best goalkeepers are is placebo based on your experiences in-game.
]]>EAFC 24 is doing pretty good for itself in terms of physical sales in the UK, though it can't quite match up to the behemoth that is Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
]]>One of the biggest additions to EAFC 24 Ultimate Team is the inclusion of women’s footballers for the first time.
]]>There have been many brilliant Brazilian football managers over the years. World Cup winner “Big Phil” Scolari comes to mind, while many legendary players such as Jairzinho, Zico and Dunga have all tried their hands at management once their playing days were behind them.
]]>Raw speed is very powerful in EAFC 24, where the new dribbling mechanics make agile and technically gifted players very difficult to tackle.
]]>It's the first full weekend of EAFC 24, where Evolutions let you upgrade the stats of lower-rated players and turn pack fodder into meta-breaking monsters.
]]>Times change; especially in football. No one can stay on top of the world forever, so when it's time for the best-of-the-best to hang up their boots, the next generation need to be ready to take up the mantle.
]]>Goals win games. It's a fact that’s as true in real life as it is in video games, so stacking your squad with the best strikers in EAFC 24 is a must if you're going to take your team to the next level.
]]>Wing wizards are just about the most fun players to control in-game, and the best Wingers in EAFC 24 are a joy to behold.
]]>In EAFC 24, the best midfielders are more powerful than ever, with the skill sets of more archetypes of players viably represented within the meta.
]]>In modern football, full-back is one of the most important positions. It's been identified by the world's top coaches as an area of the pitch where you can gain vital advantages and exploit fatal weaknesses. That's why when players are faster, trickier and more capable than ever before, it's essential to play one of the best EAFC 24 left-backs or right-backs in their natural position.
]]>In EAFC 24, stacking your team with the best centre-backs in world football is more important than ever.
]]>Update: We've updated our EAFC 24 review with a full and new text about Ultimate Team.
]]>EA Play members who like American football will be pleased to know they can now try Madden NFL 24 for 10 hours.
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