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Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🎮 LaLiga unveils nominees for team of the season in EA Sports FC
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here. Voting is now open for who you think is the best team of the season in the Spanish championship. Advertisement As every year, it's time to select and make the team with the best players of the season in EA Sports FC. On this occasion, La Liga has revealed the nominees in each position. Let's take a look. GOALKEEPERS Joan García (Espanyol) David Soria (Getafe) Courtois (Real Madrid) Batalla (Rayo Vallecano) Oblak (Atlético de Madrid) DEFENDERS Alejandro Balde (Barcelona) Jose María Giménez (Atlético de Madrid) Íñigo Martínez (Barcelona) Sergi Cardona (Villarreal) Antonio Rüdiger (Real Madrid) Óscar Mingueza (Celta) Jules Koundé (Barcelona) Ratiu (Rayo Vallecano) Dani Vivian (Athletic Club) Pau Cubarsí (Barcelona) MIDFIELDERS Rodrigo De Paul (Atlético de Madrid) Sergio Gómez (Real Sociedad) Mauro Arambarri (Getafe) Pedri (Barcelona) Oihan Sancet (Athletic Club) Isco Alarcón (Betis) Álex Baena (Villarreal) Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid) Sergi Darder (Mallorca) Nico Williams (Athletic Club) Pape Gueye (Villarreal) Johnny Cardoso (Betis) Martín Zubimendi (Real Sociedad) Fede Valverde (Real Madrid) Jauregizar (Athletic Club) FORWARDS Kylian Mbappé (Real Madrid) Ayoze Pérez (Villarreal) Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) Lukebakio (Sevilla) Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid) Ante Budimir (Osasuna) Raphinha (Barcelona) Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona) Julián Álvarez (Atlético de Madrid) Lamine Yamal (Barcelona) These are the players who are in the running to be considered for the TOTS of La Liga in this edition of EA Sports FC 25. What do you think? Who do you think is missing? Who do you think is surplus to requirements? 📸 GOKHAN TANER
Metro
07-05-2025
- Business
- Metro
EA game prices will not increase as Battlefield 6 release window confirmed
Despite the rising costs of games across the industry, EA has said it has no plans to change its current pricing strategy yet. The rising costs of games looks set to be a big sticking point over the coming months, with Microsoft and Nintendo both causing a ruckus over their increased prices. This will likely be amplified even further when the expected high price of GTA 6 is announced, but for now, EA has said that it doesn't have any plans to increase the cost of its games… at least not yet. During a Q&A in the company's latest earnings call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson was asked whether the company would follow Nintendo and Xbox in upping the price of its new games slated for this year. 'Our business is very different today than it was even just 10 years ago,' Wilson said. 'In a world where everything we did 10 years was about selling shiny discs in plastic boxes in retail shelves, while that's still a part of our business it's a significantly smaller part of our business, and we now have pricing representing everything from free-to-play all the way to deluxe editions and beyond. 'At the end of the day, whether we're doing something that costs a dollar, or we're doing something that costs $10, or we're doing something that costs $100, our objective is always delivering incredible quality and exponential value to our player base. 'And what we've discovered over the course of time is whether we can marry quality and value together, our business is strong, resilient and continues to grow.' In the most crucial detail, EA chief financial officer Stuart Canfield clarified there are 'no changes in the current strategy at this point'. While this might seem reassuring, the 'at this point' suggests EA could still bump up the price of the inevitable EA Sports FC 26, when it's officially announced, or any other game on its 2025 slate. Although given the disappointing sales for EA Sports FC 25 they're likely to hold off on that for now. One of EA's key future titles is the next Battlefield, which the publisher confirmed will release before March 2026, after a summer reveal. Wilson also said the Skate reboot will arrive within the same window. The next Battlefield, which is already being playtested by fans, is co-developed by DICE, Criterion, Motive, and Ripple Effect under a new 'Battlefield Studios' umbrella. Speaking in the same Q&A, Wilson was asked how the company felt about the Battlefield launch window following Rockstar's delay of GTA 6 to May 26, 2026. After suggesting it would be difficult to 'take advantage' of a 'less competitive window', Wilson said he was positive about Battlefield launching before March 2026, two months clear of GTA 6. The most likely release date is this autumn but given the declining fortunesof recent Battlefield games it's probably unlikely that EA will charge more than £70 for that either. In that sense, the company's statement, that it has no plans to increase prices, is more likely due to the specific nature of their next two big games, rather than a general aversion to raising prices. 'Relative to Battlefield, what we have said all along is we've been building towards a window that we thought made the most sense for Battlefield, but we wouldn't launch into a window that we thought truncated the value that we've invested into the franchise, or the value that we think our players will derive from it once they jump in and start playing,' he said (via VGC). More Trending 'I think now, without going too far, we believe that window is clearer than it was before and we feel very good about launching Battlefield in [financial year] 2026.' A summer reveal suggests Battlefield could pop up during next month's Summer Game Fest, which begins on June 6. Elsewhere in the earnings call, EA announced Split Fiction has sold nearly four million copies, ahead of its launch on Switch 2 next month. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Elden Ring movie with Alex Garland is happening after all says insider MORE: Xbox handheld pic leaks in new photos of collaboration with Asus MORE: Nintendo Switch 2 is less than a month away – here's where you can pre-order
CNBC
06-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
EA tops fourth-quarter bookings as CEO touts 'Battlefield' reveal
Visitors play the EA Sports FC 25 game in front of a placard with England's midfielder Jude Bellingham at the Electronic Arts booth during the media day at the Gamescom video games trade fair in Cologne, western Germany, on Aug. 21, 2024. Electronic Arts topped fiscal fourth-quarter bookings estimates Tuesday. Shares rose about 7%. Here's how the company did versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings : 98 cents per share. The figure is not comparable to analyst estimates : 98 cents per share. The figure is not comparable to analyst estimates Revenue (bookings): $1.80 billion vs. $1.56 billion expected The video game maker said it expects bookings to range between $7.60 billion and $8 billion for the fiscal 2026 year, ahead of a StreetAccount estimate of $7.62 billion. Net bookings for the 2025 fiscal year totaled $7.355 billion. First-quarter bookings guidance came up short of analyst expectations. EA expects the figure to range between $1.175 billion and $1.275 billion, versus a $1.275 billion projection from analysts. CEO Andrew Wilson said that the company's FC and College Football games contributed to a strong year of bookings. "As we look to the future, we're confident in our ability to execute across a deep pipeline — beginning this summer with the highly anticipated reveal of 'Battlefield,' a pivotal step in delivering on our next generation of blockbuster entertainment," he wrote. Net income for Q4 2025 grew nearly 40% to $254 million, or 98 cents a share, from 182 million, or 67 cents in the fourth quarter of Q4 2024. For the year, net income totaled 1.12 billion, or $4.25 per share, down from $1.27 billion, or $4.68 per share last year. The company also announced a 19-cent per share dividend.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Spotify lets EA Sports FC players stream music during gameplay
Spotify is getting into gameplay — kind of — through a partnership with EA Sports. The music streaming platform has teamed up with the sports video game maker to give users integrated streaming access while playing EA Sports FC 25. This partnership should allow players on the PS5 and Xbox Series X or S to access Spotify music, podcasts and audiobooks. The only catch? It's currently a pilot program and only available to users in Australia and Saudi Arabia. Oh and it's exclusive to Spotify Premium subscribers. Applicable players will see a new Spotify tab in the main menu section and can log into their accounts there. They can then access Spotify from the set-up or pause menus — so they will have to interrupt gameplay to choose a song. The latter is also where gamers can skip or pick a new track. These tracks will show up as a small icon at the top of the screen. Players can opt out of the game's default audio in favor of their Spotify playlist. However, Spotify cautions that "certain music" won't be available right now.
Metro
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
GTA 6 and price rises are going to destroy gaming forever - Reader's Feature
The $80 price rise for Xbox games and GTA 6's delay has a reader worrying that the video games industry as we know it is coming to an end. I started writing this thinking I was only going to be complaining about Xbox's price rises. And then I saw the news about GTA 6's delay. It's been quite the week. A lot of people thought that GTA 6 must be delayed, given the complete lack of information, so that wasn't a surprise. Although it means we can now ignore anything Take-Two say in the future, given what they said about the release date. If it was a few months I could understand that they were just trying to be optimistic, but more than a year? That's not the sort of delay that creeps up on you. Whether you're upset about it or not, the delay alone is going to have a big effect on gaming as a whole, but so too is the fact that Microsoft is moving towards $80 as the cost of its games. And since they're too embarrassed to say what the price is in the UK, I'm going to take it for granted that that means £80 here. You don't need me to tell you that £80 is far too much. You can talk about how that compares to movies and gigs, and all that other stuff, and I'd agree: in proportion video games are better value for money. But that's not the point. The point is that £80 is such a huge chunk of money it rules out all but the biggest games for everyone, which is almost where we are now anyway. We constantly hear that nobody is buying new games, except Call Of Duty and EA Sports FC, and most people are sticking with the same game for years, just endlessly buying more cosmetics and other microtransaction junk. What they get out of that I couldn't begin to imagine but it's already nearly brought the games industry to its knees. Now we have Microsoft's annoucement, which is not only going to make impulse purchases a thing of the past but will put people off the idea of buying video games entirely and just file them away in their heads as something that is too expensive and not worth the trouble anymore. Unless it's free-to-play garbage. Of course, Microsoft won't be the last to announce a price rise. Nintendo already has and Sony is probably only delaying to try and make Xbox look bad. Other publishers will be champing at the bit, and I imagine that if Call Of Duty and EA Sports FC aren't £80 this year they will be next year (EA may take their time, given EA Sports FC 25 was a bit of a dud). To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video And then we have GTA 6. Everyone has already accepted the fact that it's going to cost at least £80 and probably £100 or more. And other publishers will immediately leap on that too and think, 'If they can do it, why not us?' My other concern with GTA 6, is that if most people are already only playing the same one or two games, what is going to happen when all the pent up desire of 13 years crashes to earth with GTA 6? The game's going to be the best-selling game ever, obviously, but if it's even half as involved as GTA 5 people are going to be playing it forever. It will become the game. It'll be so popular that there's literally no point releasing anything else because even if people can afford them (which they can't) they haven't got time to play them, because you've got to get your two hours a day in on GTA 6. A video games industry crash has seemed on the horizon for years, but here it is finally coming into view. And this one isn't just going to be limited to the US. When I say destroy gaming I don't mean it literally. There'll still be gatcha rubbish on mobile, there'll still be some indie games (the lower budget ones at least), and Call Of Duty, EA Sports FC, Fortnite, GTA, and Minecraft will continue to be 90% of everything. But the actual games that you – as a person that was interested enough to visit this site and read this far into my feature – care about? They're done. More Trending No one can compete with GTA 6 – it's got to the point where it's too big and too expensive for anyone to even try – and no one wants anything else anyway. Well, I do. But I'm afraid we're all going to have to admit that we're in the minority and when the games industry does implode, we'll be upset but most people won't even notice anything changed – because they only played one game anyway. By reader Gaston The reader's features do not necessarily represent the views of GameCentral or Metro. You can submit your own 500 to 600-word reader feature at any time, which if used will be published in the next appropriate weekend slot. Just contact us at gamecentral@ or use our Submit Stuff page and you won't need to send an email. MORE: How Game Pass led me to abandon my PS5 – Reader's Feature MORE: 5 memorable gaming moments that no one ever talks about – Reader's Feature MORE: 6 GameCube games that need to come to Nintendo Switch 2 - Reader's Feature
