Seven big announcements from EA Play 2020: FIFA 21, Star Wars: Squadrons, The Sims 4, more – The Star Online

Electronic Arts is bringing more games to PC platform Steam (The Sims 4 included), while its EA Play showcase revealed gameplay from Star Wars: Squadrons and FIFA 21, early looks at new Need For Speed, Dragon Age and Battlefield titles, and several promising indie games from partner studios.

FIFA 21 and Madden NFL 21

Video games as athletic and personal empowerment: FIFA 21 (PS4 XBO PC, Oct 9) and Madden NFL 21 are given the next console generation treatment in this sizzle reel for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X editions of the games. EA is offering separate one-year upgrade paths for digital and disc editions of the games from PS4 to PS5 or XBO to XSX versions.

Star Wars: Squadrons

After a pre-rendered cinematic at the start of the week, this first look at gameplay (intercut with more cinematics) from the Oct 2 PS4, XBO and PC game covers its both-factions single-player campaign, eight types of space ships and their components, various multi-player battle modes and VR capabilities.

The Sims 4 on Steam

It's been a phenomenon since 2014 the franchise as a whole since the year 2000 and, until now, the PC edition of The Sims 4 has only been available through EA's own Origin platform. That's changed now with this latest cohort of Steam re-releases, along with excellent Apex Legends precursor Titanfall 2 and, earlier in the month, Need For Speed Heat, Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect Andromeda and others.

Apex Legends for Switch and Steam

Speaking of free-to-play, microtransaction-fueled battle royale Apex Legends is coming to Steam as well. Like genre leader Fortnite, which launched for Switch mid-2018 after earlier console and PC launches, it'll be on Nintendo's console around the same time, in Fall 2020.

Seven Switch games

In fact, Electronic Arts is committing to a seven-game slate for the Nintendo Switch, with Apex Legends, Burnout Paradise Remastered (which launches June 19) and Lost In Random accounting for three of them.

EA's Indies: Lost in Random, It Takes Two, Rocket Arena

What's this Lost In Random then? Announced this time in 2019 alongside then-mystery title It Takes Two, it's the 2021 release from Swedish artisan Zoink. It Takes Two (2021) is another blend of involving story and creative gameplay from the celebrated Hazelight Studios; Rocket Arena is an acrobatic hero shooter reminiscent of Overwatch and classic Quake.

Five short teases: Need For Speed, Dragon Age 4, Battlefield, Untitled creative game, Skate

Three big franchises were cued up for more comprehensive reveals midway through 2021: Need For Speed, Battlefield and, most likely Dragon Age, with Star Wars: Squadrons studio Motive also working on something new and, as rumoured, skateboarding franchise Skate is on the comeback trail. AFP Relaxnews

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