After the split announcement, EA said that it would be EAFC 24 Coins sharing more information about EA Sports FC in June 2024, saying, 20We exist to create the FCure of football fandom – whether virtual or real, digital or physical, it’s all football.”

In other news, THQ Nordic and Kit Games have revealed their new action-real time strategy game, The Valiant.

What does EA and FC's split mean for fans of football games?

The Week in Games is a weekly column where Vikki Blake pulls apart the biggest stories in gaming each week. This week, she discusses EA new 20fan-first FCure of interactive football21 as it parts ways with FC. 

Break-ups suck. Break-ups after a long-term relationship that necessitate a name change are especially sucky. Break-ups after a long-term relationship, an awkward name change, that also play out with the whole world watching must be wholly embarrassing for all involved.

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Im talking, of course, about Electronic Arts16 excruciatingly public break up with football global governing body, FC, after 25 plus years together.

Publicly, EA says its parting ways with FC in order to enable it to 20deliver the world’s biggest interactive sports experience for its growing community in collaboration with 300 plus partners across the world of football21. Privately, I suspect a prohibitively expensive licensing deal and the (alleged, lol) indelible stink of corruption that followed the football organisation for years may have propelled EA into action.

This means that from next year, EA astonishingly successful footie franchise, FC, will be FC no more instead, youll be playing EA Sports FC.

As game names go, it a stinker. With enough of a marketing budget, though 11 and EA, being EA, will definitely have enough of a marketing budget 11 the company can and likely will make it work. It gone to great pains to express that 20the introduction of EA Sports FC will not impact any current EA Sports global football games21, and the final FC instalment 11 a game EA and FC jointly insist will be 20the greatest, most expansive FC ever21 11 will release later this year with 20more game modes, features, teams, leagues, players, and competitions than any previous edition21. But after that, the companies go their separate ways.

For some, the news is likely to come as a shock, but EA 11 or, more accurately, its trackie-wearing subsidiary, EA Sports 11 has been talking for some time about 20exploring the cheap Fut 24 Coins idea21 of renaming its tentpole footie franchise. It all got super serious last October, though, when it flatly declared that it was 20exploring21 the idea of rebranding in a global bloody press release.