After greater than a decade, EA Sports activities is on the point of deliver again its faculty soccer sequence. The sport’s social media pages have been up to date immediately, February 15, to incorporate the announcement {that a} full reveal of EA Sports activities College Football 25 will occur in Could. The sport will then launch in the summertime forward of the brand new faculty soccer season that kicks off in August.
This is not an enormous shock, although, as EA Sports said back in November 2022 that the corporate’s subsequent faculty soccer recreation would arrive in Summer season 2024. However what is new right here is the identify of the game–EA Sports activities College Football 25–and the announcement window in Could.
A teaser video reveals some clues about what to anticipate from the brand new recreation, and it consists of colleges like Penn State, Oklahoma, Florida, Alabama, and extra.
The final time EA Sports activities launched a university soccer recreation was again in 2013 with the launch of NCAA Football 14. Followers, together with Snoop Dogg, have referred to as on EA to deliver the franchise again for years, and now it is lastly occurring.
The NCAA shouldn’t be concerned with the brand new recreation, which is why its identify and branding is nowhere to be seen. Pupil-athletes in faculty can now earn a living thanks to call, picture, and likeness (NIL) offers, and it will be intriguing to see the way it all shakes out with EA Sports activities College Football 25.
In 2023, the College Football Gamers Affiliation instructed gamers to boycott the revival as a result of low funds supplied to every participant, which was reported within the realm of $500. EA was additionally sued by The Brandr Group, which has offers to barter group licensing contracts for 54 NCAA Division I colleges. A listing of collaborating colleges has not been revealed as of but.
In August 2023, EA CEO Andrew Wilson stated the sport is making “unbelievable progress” and that EA had, on the time, already secured licenses for “many if not a lot of the colleges.” Nevertheless, it stays to be seen if participant likenesses shall be featured within the recreation.
EA’s greatest sports activities recreation is EA Sports activities FC (previously often known as FIFA), and the corporate additionally makes formally licensed NFL, NHL, PGA Tour, and UFC video games. In 2023, EA launched its first baseball recreation on console, Tremendous Mega Baseball 4, in 10+ years.