There's no dedicated FIFA World Cup game this year from Electronic Arts, but there is a free patch for FIFA 18 that'll dress the footie simulator up in the colours of your favourite national team. That's kind of nice.

Just yesterday, we learned from reports that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 would skip the traditional single player campaign to focus on its multiplayer - including a Battle Royale mode. It looks like Battlefield V may do the same.

Mass Effect Andromeda's painful path of life after launch did have an impact on developer Bioware and their plans for the upcoming Destiny challenger Anthem, as a new direction was forged for the studio.

It’s safe to say that when it comes to implementing microtransactions is Star Wars: Battlefront II was a mess. So ,much so, that the company received a world of vitriol and backlash, and yanked them right out before stuffing them back in months later. It’s a situation that the company doesn’t want to repeat.

According to a Dragon Age panel at Havencon this weekend, Bioware may not have survived at all if EA hadn’t bought them.

EA is helping train AI to play Battlefield 1, to better understand how the technology may be used for both automation and testing in the near future.

Wild, adequately beautiful and a reminder of what a real need for speed truly feels like. Burnout Paradise Remastered may not be essential for anyone who has already spent many an afternoon committing its many and shortcuts streets to memory, but as an example of how racing games can fuse euphoria and momentum into one packed package of V8 action? It’s the original benchmark that hasn’t a single ounce of torque.

EA has decided to finally remove Star Cards from loot crates in Battlefront II, bringing six months of pay-to-win microtransactions to an end.