FIFA and EA Sports’ reported split suggests FIFA is up for development by another developer.

Electronic Arts and FIFA, the organisation has been in partnership for over thirty years becoming one of the most successful and highly grossing franchises in the gaming world. FIFA has been the biggest association football game for many consecutive years with Electronic Arts even claiming FIFA to be the best-selling game series in the world with over 200 million players. But with recent reports insinuating a possible break-up between the partnership, FIFA look for other pathways for their football gaming series.

Reports started weeks ago with EA claiming they were “exploring ideas” on changing the FIFA title. Many thought this could be just another rumour but when it was confirmed that EA filed trademark for “EA Sports FC”, the FIFA community began believing the split between EA and FIFA was inevitable.

Executives reporting the reasoning for the break down in the deal being because of the organisation, FIFA’s asking price for the licensing of their name, asking for 1 billion every 4 years. EA Sports not being happy with this then started looking at ways around this.

Later, FIFA then released a statement addressing the rumours and having their say on EA’s total power with the franchise, FIFA. They extend and go into detail about the future of FIFA sounding quite positive on the direction it is going in despite the fact the partnership with EA made the game into what it is today; one of the biggest game franchises. They also spoke about engaging in talks with “developers, investors, and analysts” on the future of FIFA. Lastly, adding their idea on expanding their audience and competition with the addition of live competitive gaming; mostly including the FIFA World Cup with it also said that EA Sport and FIFA will take a break just before the FIFA World Cup begins.

FIFA 22 was released October 1^st on all platforms giving off a very good and interesting first impression. Many of the FIFA community being happy and satisfied with the work done by EA. EA Sports recently launched an update to the game, adjusting and mending bugs that were in place following release. The update including patches to the goalkeepers that were said to be too “OP” decreasing the probability of saves inside the penalty area. Also adding minor adjustments to the HyperMotion increasing the game response time. This update getting positive feedback but with more updating needed, EA Sports are sure to be on the case.

FIFA 22 is available now on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, PC and Stadia.

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The gaming giants have been researching ways in which artificial intelligence can help make video games more realistic

EA has been busy researching ways to use artificial intelligence so it can make its characters move in more believable and realistic ways so that games can keep up the immersive experience for its players without doing something totally unexpected.

It’s among many companies, like Ubisoft, that is hoping to turn to AI to fix these issues and make character movements feel seamless.

EA’s Research into Artificial Intelligence

EA, one of the largest gaming publishers across the board, is hoping to discuss its latest research at the Siggraph Computer Graphics Conference this week by showing off the computer programmes it had built to make characters in its sports games move in more realistic ways.

Sebastian Starke, an EA researcher who has spent the past few years focusing his research on using artificial intelligence to make better animations for basketball games, uploaded a video demonstration titled “[SIGGRAPH 2021] Neural Animation Layering for Synthesizing Martial Arts Movements” onto YouTube which demonstrates the results of AI programmes that make characters jump and punch in realistic ways.

Usually, developers have to tell the game what they want the character’s next move to be, yet these new techniques could produce realistic movements with animators only having to do a percentage of the work.

Aside from artificial intelligence, other computer programs currently help produce realistic character movements, such as photogrammetry, which helps convert digital photographs into interactive locations and items. There is also motion capture technology similar to what is used for movie productions, which can capture expressions and movements.

In EA’s anticipated release FIFA 22, a piece of technology called HyperMotion has been used to make the football players move more realistically. It collected data from matches played with two football teams wearing motion-capture suits, tracked the unique movements, fed them into a computer programme, and then produced 4000 new animations of the players moving around on the pitch.

With technology improving constantly, the concept of artificial intelligence being used to make video games feels less like a fever dream and more approachable day by day. Let’s just hope all those sci-fi stories were wrong about artificial intelligence turning against its creators.

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