Madden NFL 19 will come to PlayStation 4, Xbox One — and Windows PC for the first time in more than a decade — with a new animation engine that EA Sports says will make the game more cinematic and lifelike than ever. Last year’s Madden NFL 18 introduced the Frostbite engine to support its story mode “Longshot.” This year, EA Sports’ American football flaghship will bring “real motion technology” to the game to make players more responsive, lifelike, and truer to Frostbite’s presentation. The gam

Electronic Arts’ annual EA Play press briefing featured a look at a number of upcoming titles from the publisher, including Battlefield 5, this year’s EA Sports lineup and a deep dive on BioWare’s Anthem. There were also some surprising announcements, like Coldwood Interactive’s Unravel 2 — which is launching today — and the title of Respawn Entertainment’s Star Wars game, Jedi Fallen Order. Check out all our EA Play 2018 coverage in the StoryStream below.

This week’s Ocean’s 8 is out on theaters, with Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock stepping in as the heist ringleader, Debbie Ocean — sister to the original movie’s Danny Ocean. To pilfer a necklace from the annual Met Gala, Debbie recruits an all-new, all-female gang of thieves. [Warning: the rest of this post contains major spoilers for Ocean’s 8]THE BEGINNINGOcean’s 8 kicks off with a parole hearing, much like Ocean’s 11 did. In order to pull it off, Debbie secretly recruits the help of another Ocea

Presented once again by PC Gamer, the PC Gaming Show at E3 2018 promises to be something. The PC Gaming Show has traditionally been a bit odd at best and pretty terrible at its worst. The PC Gaming Show starts this year on Monday, June 11 at 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. Cloud ImperiumThe developer behind Star Citizen is slated to show up at the PC Gaming Show. Lots of Indie GamesIt wouldn’t be the PC Gaming Show without lots and lots of smaller titles showing up on the big stage.

A trophy list for Fallout Shelter on PlayStation 4 slipped out overnight, perhaps portending the base-building game’s arrival on that platform. Expohase has the list of 36 trophies, which includes a platinum for getting every one, so you know it’s for PlayStation. Fallout Shelter, developed by Behaviour Interactive, was a surprise announcement from Bethesda Softworks during the publisher’s E3 2015 show. Bethesda boasted of 29 million player-hours logged during Fallout Shelter’s first month of re

Electronic Arts will kick off its EA Play 2018 event from Los Angeles during E3 with a livestream broadcast on Saturday, June 9 at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. You can watch it all live right here. Battlefield 5 is launching Oct. 19, 2018 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. Madden NFL 19 will likely launch at the end of August, followed by NHL 19, FIFA 19 and NBA Live 19 through September and October. It’s also possible we could hear about expansion plans for existing games that have already launche

FIFA 19 will be released Sept. 28, with the European Champions League featured throughout the game, publisher Electronic Arts announced today during EA Play 2018. EA Sports picked up the license to the UEFA Champions League following the end of a 10-year deal between European sports body UEFA and Konami, for its Pro Evolution Soccer series. The Champions League is an annual contest featuring the best clubs in Europe. EA’s soccer simulation has long trumped PES for official licenses, though the a

Battlefield 5 will include a battle royale-style multiplayer mode, DICE confirmed at Electronic Arts’ EA Play press conference today. DICE said that Battlefield 5’s take on battle royale will include the brand of action and destruction that the Battlefield franchise is known for, but offered little in the way of additional details, including how many players the mode will support and when the mode will be released. DICE said it will talk about “Battlefield royale” later this year. EA and DICE re

Days ahead of E3 2018, Electronic Arts offered Star Wars fans a brief tease of the new game from Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment during its EA Play press conference. Respawn’s game is called Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and will focus on a dark time in the Star Wars timeline when the Jedi are being hunted. Based on Zampella’s description, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will be set between Episodes III and IV of the Star Wars film universe. The game was part of EA’s longterm exclusive arr

Madden NFL, after a decade’s absence from PC gaming, will return to Windows PC this fall with Madden NFL 19, Electronic Arts’ chief executive, Andrew Wilson, announced today at EA’s keynote kicking of E3. The last Madden NFL to publish for PC was Madden NFL 08 in 2007. EA Sports’ decision to abandon the platform in early 2008 was met with the full-throated indignation of the PC gaming community, and began a steep decline in sports video gaming on that platform. From 2009 to present day, EA Sport

Electronic Arts just announced that Unravel 2 is out today. We’re playing the game for review, but in the meantime, we’ve got some hands-on impressions to share. First, here are the details of the game, which EA shared during EA Play 2018 today: Unravel 2 is the sequel to Unravel, developed by Swedish indie Coldwood Interactive and released in 2016. In its heavy reliance on mutual experimentation, it reminds me, somewhat, of A Way Out, another co-op indie game published by EA. EA Access and Orig

General Grievous, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Count Dooku and Anakin Skywalker are coming to Star Wars: Battlefront 2 in the coming months, EA and DICE announced today, as the game explores Star Wars’ Clone Wars period. Developer DICE is also adding the planet Geonosis, introduced in Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones, to Battlefront 2. Although Battlefront 2 kicked off with a rocky start following controversy over loot boxes, the team is committed to building out Battlefront 2, according to one o

Electronic Arts showed its indie pickup Sea of Solitude from Jo-Mei at its EA Play 2018 conference today, another title in its EA Originals indie publishing program. It’s the story of a young woman called Kay who is suffering from loneliness, and so becomes a monster. The game is about bringing her back to humanity“Sea of Solitude is by far the most artistic and personal project I’ve ever created,” said Cornelia Geppert, the game’s writer and creative director, in an article from EA. “At times i

Command & Conquer is one of the best-known franchises from the golden age of PC real-time strategy games. Electronic Arts today announced Command & Conquer Rivals, which is coming out for Android and iOS later this year. As then, the new game is about manufacturing military units, sending them into battle and gaining control of territory through smart strategy. This is the first Command & Conquer game since the cancellation of Victory Games’ Command & Conquer for PC, in 2013. The last Command &

NBA Live 19, the latest entry in EA Sports’ long-running basketball series, launches Sept. 7 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, publisher Electronic Arts announced today during EA Play 2018. The first trailer for NBA Live 19, which EA showed at the press briefing, highlighted the return of The One, the well-received career mode that debuted in last year’s NBA Live 18. EA says developer EA Tiburon is bringing EA Sports’ Real Player Motion animation technology into NBA Live 19 for “thousands of new an

Electronic Arts debuted Battlefield 5 multiplayer gameplay footage during Electronic Arts’ live pre-E3 event, EA Play. EA showed off the multiplayer mode from the upcoming World War II shooter by showing an explosive dogfight. The gameplay trailer also hinted at the reveal of Battlefield 5’s War Story mode. The footage will appear at tomorrow’s Microsoft E3 2018 event. Battlefield 5 will release on October 19, and will be available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

Electronic Arts and BioWare’s upcoming action role-playing game, Anthem, received a new story trailer today at EA Play 2018 that should hold fans over until the game is out in 2019. The anthem is the only thing that remains, says a player in the game, as humans take on giant alien-looking creatures. Anthem’s trailer is a welcome sight at E3 amid reports the game was suffering from development woes. The game was reportedly pushed back to 2019 as pressure from publisher EA grew for BioWare’s devel

Electronic Arts kicked off E3 2018 with its EA Play conference, announcing some exciting new games and debuting fresh trailers. Here are the most exciting announcements from EA’s E3 2018 conference. Players will play as a Freelancer, piloting these giant suits, who will face off against their enemies called the Dominion. Battle Royale mode confirmed for Battlefield 5It should come as no surprise that EA is following the biggest trend in gaming this year by introducing a battle royale mode to Bat

For every story out of the event, head over to our full EA Play at E3 2018 coverage page. For a quick look at what went down, here are all the trailers that played during the press conference. Madden NFL 19It simply wouldn’t be an EA Play event at E3 without a trailer for a new Madden game. Battlefield 5 multiplayerMore Battlefield 5 footage will be shown at Xbox’s keynote presentation on Monday, but we did get a quick look at the game’s multiplayer mode. Another look at the multiplayer mode can

During EA Play 2018, EA’s annual pre-E3 live show, the company showed off a few minutes of gameplay footage of Anthem, BioWare’s next game. The gameplay video featured an in-depth look at the world, characters and enemies of Anthem, as well as giving us a better look at the game’s action. It will feature online play with players cooperating to take down monsters and complete quests. Anthem was first announced at last year’s Microsoft E3 press conference, where we saw the first short gameplay tea