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Report: EA ‘Exploiting The Players’ With College Football Payments
For the first time in a decade, EA Sports will be releasing a college football game this season. The main reasons for that 10-year hiatus was a conflict over player payments (which weren’t allowed under NCAA rules) and likenesses. Those had presumably been resolved in the lead-up to EA Sports College Football’s release later this…
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Tom Brady’s Video Game Career Dates Back To The 20th Century
You can hear someone tell you Tom Brady’s age (45!) and it doesn’t really hit you, because the guy still looks pretty fit and healthy. To fully grasp the length of Brady’s tenure on this Earth, then, you need to realise that the man has appeared in a video game for the PlayStation. Like, the…
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EA Says FIFA Players Actually ‘Love’ The Game’s Controversial Loot Boxes
Four years after Star Wars: Battlefront II’s disastrous launch galvanised the world against loot boxes, EA is still defending the exploitative microtransaction in its crown jewel: FIFA. In-game card packs don’t just make the publisher billions, EA swears that players love them too.