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Fans Dunk On FIFA Promising New Football ‘egame’
This will be the first year since 1993 that there won’t be a new FIFA game after Electronic Arts abandoned the exclusive licence once negotiations reportedly broke down over the renewal price. FIFA President Gianni Infantino swears the FIFA series will return, however, promising “FIFA 25, 26, 27 and so on – will always be…
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FIFA 23’s World Cup Trailer Gleefully Helps Sportswash A Deeply Controversial Tournament
The upcoming World Cup, beginning in Qatar later this month, is easily one of the most controversial in the tournament’s 92-year history. And it hasn’t even kicked off yet.
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Report: IGDA Failed To Act On Internal Harassment Claims
The International Game Developers Association has been an outspoken critic of the culture at companies like Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard that has led to so many lawsuits, departures and firings over the last few years. Yet a report today by GI.Biz says that the group has failed to act on its own internal problems.
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Man Charged, Banned From FIFA After Sending Racist DMs To Actual, Legendary Player
Last May Irish teenager Patrick O’Brien was playing a game of FIFA, and one of the players he was controlling was Arsenal and England legend Ian Wright. O’Brien lost that match, and so decided to jump into Wright’s DMs and send a succession of disgustingly racist attacks.