Legal troubles continue for Electronic Arts despite settling cases regarding player likenesses in college games and pricing tactics after receiving exclusivity for Madden. The latest is the now defunct THQ filing suit against EA and Zuffa (parent company of UFC) regarding the transfer of the UFC license that took place last summer. THQ is asking for the deal to be nullified and rights returned to them with any profits from the upcoming EA Sports UFC theirs to keep. The company claims that...

There has never really been any question that EA Sports UFC would incorporate the women's division which debuted back in February. As written about last year it not only made sense in terms of marketing but since then its relevance and legitimacy has become too great to overlook. A game without the division would simply be an incomplete representation of the UFC. Ronda Rousey has become a huge star and one of the faces of the UFC. Today she confirmed her inclusion in EA Sports UFC in a...

EA Sports has already revealed they'll be announcing additional information on how they plan to ease the transition to the next generation at Gamescom during their press briefing on August 20 at 10AM ET/7AM PT. Now they've let it be known that the first entry in their UFC franchise, scheduled to release next spring on the Xbox One and PS4, will be making an appearance. The first look at pre-alpha gameplay will be on display at the event. Though a fairly significant amount of info about th...

Amazon has added placeholder box art to listings (One - PS4) for the upcoming UFC game from EA Sports. Interestingly despite having been referred to up until now as "EA Sports UFC" a few retailers including Amazon and Walmart have switched the product name to "UFC". All the EA Sports titles feature the logo prominently in the center so its presence in the box art doesn't suggest otherwise. Certainly the EA Sports in front of UFC helps define the product better than without it and it will lik...

At their E3 press conference EA discussed only two of the promised eight gameplay features for EA Sports UFC. The presentation made to attendees of E3 went into all of them however and now the company has released full descriptions of each. Though it's the game that is the farthest out from releasing of the next-gen bunch that was put on display this week it may have been the most impressive on a technical level and in the substance shared.  (more…)...