10 Facts About EA Sports

EA Sports is a division of Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games.

Several years after the brand was created, all EA Sports games began with a stylized five-second video introducing the brand with Andrew Anthony voicing its motto, "It's in the game", meaning that its games aimed at simulating the actual sports as authentically and completely as possible; Anthony was never compensated for his appearance and did it merely as a favour to a friend.

Unlike some other sports game companies, EA Sports has no special ties to a single platform, which means that all games are released for the bestselling active platforms, sometimes long after most of the other companies abandon them.

In January 2008, EA Sports decided not to renew their NCAA College Baseball license while they evaluated the status of their MVP game engine.

In February 2021, EA announced it was returning to college sports with a EA College Football game to be released within the next couple of years.

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At the time of this announcement, EA stated they had no other agreements with other NCAA sports.

In June 2009, EA Sports announced that for 2010, the games Madden NFL, NCAA Football, NASCAR, NHL, NBA Live, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour would not be shipped for PC platforms.

The EA Sports Complex featured racing and had a golfing range that was unavailable to play.

EA Sports have teamed up with the Home team to produce and distribute exclusive virtual items that serve to support National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Nevertheless, as EA Sports is the leading purchaser of official licenses, it is not uncommon that in a short span several games of the same sport but with different licenses are released: FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 was shortly followed by World Cup 98, all in the wake of FIFA Soccer Manager in 1997, and college football and basketball games are released that are based on Madden NFL and NBA Live, respectively.