EA Sports College Football 25 Coming This Summer, Full Reveal in May
It’s been three years since EA announced it was planning a new college football game after a year-long hiatus. Dubbed EA Sports College Football 25, little has come to fruition about the game since its reveal in terms of updates, but the publisher has broken its silence with a new trailer confirming a release window […]
It’s been three years since EA announced it was planning a new college football game after a year-long hiatus. Dubbed EA Sports College Football 25, little has come to fruition about the game since its reveal in terms of updates, but the publisher has broken its silence with a new trailer confirming a release window and promising a closer look. in depth on the title in the near future. .
The video leans heavily into the skepticism expressed by fans about the existence of college football, proudly expressing, “Yes, the game is real” while showing snippets of behind-the-scenes development footage. The slick video doesn’t do much other than that, but it ends with the promise of a full reveal in May and a summer launch window.
EA Sports College Football 25 is developed by EA Orlando (formerly Tiburon), the team behind the Madden games. This will be the publisher’s first college football game since the demise of its NCAA Football series, the last entry of which was published in 2013. The franchise was suspended due to a 2014 federal lawsuit in which the judge ruled that NCAA football’s long term. the standing rule prohibiting college athletes from being paid for their in-game likeness was illegal.
With name, image, likeness (NIL) rules now in place in college sports, players can now be paid to appear in advertisements or products. This would of course include video games. EA Sports reached an agreement with OneTeam Partners to negotiate deals with players to include their NIL in the upcoming game. However, this was met with resistance from the schools and player licensing agency, The Brandr Group last summer, which filed a lawsuit to stop EA from entering into such deals with OneTeam Partners. The two entities ultimately agreed to a settlement in November, dropping the lawsuit (thanks game-release-update-brandr”>College Football HQ).
We don’t know which platforms EA Sports College Football 25 will target, but we hope this answer should arrive in the broader May update.
