As much as we've enjoyed our time with EA Sports FC in recent years (and even eFootball to a degree), it's always great to see more competition in the football/soccer space. The free-to-play release of UFL is just around the corner, and now if this rumour is to be believed, 2K might be preparing to take on the FIFA license in the near future.
You may have seen this gaining traction over the weekend courtesy of retailer MohPlay Inc, although a source for the information wasn't provided. We were a bit skeptical of that tweet in all honesty, but Insider Gaming's Mike Straw also followed up by claiming that an announcement could be on the way:
Mike Straw (February 12th): "I'm hearing rumors that FIFA/2K are working to announce a partnership for 2K to make an officially-licensed FIFA game. Working to hopefully land more on this."
Mike Straw (May 26th): "More smoke to this. No one is willing to talk to me on the record about it, but we could be getting an announcement of a new partnership sooner rather than later."
So, it certainly sounds possible that 2K could be taking on the FIFA license. When EA decided not to renew the FIFA name a few years ago, Take-Two's CEO praised FIFA as having a "great brand" with "incredible clout", while also indicating that the company was interested in "expanding our opportunities in sports".
The tweet from MohPlay Inc that gained attention this past weekend claimed that FIFA 2K25 could be set to launch as soon as this year, but that sounds like a pretty rapid turnaround to us. Then again, maybe we're in for a surprise!
Would you like to see 2K taking on the FIFA license? Tell us down in the comments section below.
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I’ve already heard the rumours about this for the past couple months and hope it’s true because even more Football games would be good for competition. EA have had a monopoly on Football games for too long now.
Hopefully it will be good but has a huge task facing ea even just for licensed teams and leagues
what about the real football ? we need nfl 2k !!
A shame FIFA didn’t partner with an indie developer.
@nomither6 yes exactly! Until then I will keep enjoying nfl 2K5 on my series X!
@nomither6 real football? Real football is played with feet. Hence foot+ball.
But what will the net look like?! How round will the ball be?!!
So many questions!!!🤯
@Beermonkey no sir, that’s called soccer
@nomither6 wrong lol. It was named Football by the British, where the game originated from. Its like me saying ice hockey is called stick puck because we have our own sport that we call ice hockey in the UK and Canada is wrong 🤦. Call it what you want but it originated as Football so its Football.
@Kidfunkadelic83 and football originated as football in america
i’m just messing with yall by the way , the gridiron football vs football debate will never not be funny
@nomither6 Well that throws a spanner in the works then 😂. We just call it American football over here, hey atleast i actually like your sport tho. I cant stand our football. Only 3 sports games ive ever had are F1, PGA and Madden.
@nomither6 @Kidfunkadelic83 FYI the name "Soccer" was created by the English. A bit of history. "Football", as we Brits know it, was officially called "Association Football" to distinguish itself from "Rugby Football" and other "Football" games. The later got shortened to "Rugg-er" and the former "Assoc..." got shortened to "Socc-er". They were unofficial names, but what most called them in England, for a while at least around the start of the 20th Century.
While Rugger eventually just became "Rugby" it is still officially "Rugby Union Football" but commonly drops the "football" part of it's name, likely to avoid confusion and for brevity. Whereas "Association Football" dropped the first and is commonly known as "Football" now.
But the nickname "Soccer" stuck around as the game travelled around the world, which is why many countries in the world, not just the United States, still know it as Soccer. The more you know...
EDIT: "Football" in the USA was originally called "American Rugby Union Football", yes it was an offshoot of rugby, and is an abbreviation of "Gridiron Football" which it was renamed after Walter Camp and others set the new rules with lines of scrimmage, downs etc. It's now mostly known as "American Football" outside the States.
@Kidfunkadelic83 had to google what “spanner” meant , we just call it “wrench” in america 😂. Also i’m shocked that you despise football , that’s a first since it’s so globally popular, especially in europe.
@themightyant i completely forgot about rugby and never wouldve thought that its older than american football
@themightyant its actually crazy how deep it goes really.
@nomither6 see i would call a wrench a big heavy duty adjustable spanner. Language makes my head hurt sometimes. I have to deal with the American airbase when they order car parts and it still makes me laugh when they order rotors instead of disks or lug nuts instead of wheel bolts 😂
@Kidfunkadelic83 There have likely been hundreds of variations of "football" games over time. If you think about it it's a very generic term and has meant different things to different people over the ages... as it still does today.
Some predecessors of football go back to ancient Greece and Rome, and similar games have been found around the world including in Japan and China. In Britain it dates back to AT LEAST the eighth century. For a long time people just made up their own local rules.
It wasn't till 1863 and the forming of the Football Association and their "laws of the game" which laid out, for the first time, a strict set of rules to play by that what we know as "football" was solidified.
Now back to (video) games.
@themightyant its an interesting rabbit hole tho. Thanks for the info 👍
@themightyant
I have ChatGPT also
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