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After falling out with EA, FIFA has announced that the next games to use its branding will be Web 3.0 blockchain titles.
Coinciding with the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, four games will be releasing and will all be Web 3.0 titles.
In a press release, FIFA stated that: “Gaming and esports are some of the fastest-growing opportunities for FIFA as it continues to expand into new digital spaces, platforms and games that are already welcoming football fans to them.
“The new gaming integrations, all of which are designed with web 3.0 and the future of digital engagement in mind, are playable around the tournament and each have a unique twist on the globe’s biggest football tournament.”
The first game to release will be called AI League: FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Edition and will be developed by Altered State Machine. AI League will be a “4-on-4 casual football game, played between AI-controlled characters, with player input at fun and tactical moments.”
In a press release by Altered State Machine, the game will have a 10-week prediction component with “digital and physical prizes” available to those who correctly predict real-life matches.
Players who take part in the prediction game will earn “four unique collectibles” who will become the AI-controlled players in the FIFA World Cup AI League.
The second game is called FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in the Upland Metaverse. The game is a collaboration with Uplandme.
Upland is a blockchain-based metaverse where players can buy and sell virtual properties.
The FIFA collaboration will allow for players to collect “official FIFA World Cup digital assets, including legendary video highlights of the tournament,” and travel to a virtual World Cup Lusail Stadium and Village to shop for digital items.
The third game is titled FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on Phygtl and will be a collab with “fan engagement mobile application” Phygtl.
The game claims that “fans can augment a golden-globe-football from the palm of their hands into their real-life environment, own a limited fragment of it to attach and eternalize their handpicked FIFA World Cup pictures and video moments.”
The fourth game is Matchday Challenge: FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Edition. It is set to be a “highly engaging casual social prediction game based on football cards.”
Recently, FIFA ended its nearly 30 year partnership with EA to make sports games. FIFA 23 was the last EA Sports game to feature FIFA branding on the title.
EA is still continuing with soccer games and will rebrand the series as EA Sports FC, claiming it will begin “a new era in July 2023.”
In a statement back in May, FIFA president Gianni Infantino insisted that “the only authentic, real game that has the FIFA name will be the best one available for gamers and football fans.
“The FIFA name is the only global, original title. FIFA 23, FIFA 24, FIFA 25 and FIFA 26, and so on – the constant is the FIFA name and it will remain forever and remain THE BEST.”
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