EA Sports and Fifa end partnership, both eye new video games

‘I can assure you that the only authentic, real game that has the Fifa name will be the best one available for gamers and football fans,’ Infantino (pic) said in a statement. — AP

ZURICH: Electronic Arts will stop making its hugely successful Fifa video game in its current name, marking a split in one of football’s most successful and lucrative partnerships after the sides failed to strike a new licensing deal.

Instead, the California company said Tuesday that EA Sports FC will be introduced from 2023 after it creates the final game in partnership with Fifa later this year.