Fight Night might be getting a revival but it’s still a ways off, Video Games Chronicle (VGC) reported Wednesday.
According to the report, Electronic Arts has started working on a new entry in the best-in-class boxing simulation codenamed “Moneyball” for the time being. Don’t get too excited just yet, though, as development is on hold until EA Sports UFC 5 is complete.
Apparently, EA Canada had the same development team working on both games. To avoid splitting up the senior creative minds, Electronic Arts chose to focus on EA Sports UFC 5. VGC got ahold of an email sent to EA Canada staff about the situation.
“We’re very excited about UFC 5 and we want to eliminate the split focus that several members of our leadership team have had over the past while so we can solely focus on delivering migration and UFC 5 at high quality,” EA Canada allegedly said.
Some of the best to ever do it are here as PRIME ICONS in #UFC4 💪🔥
Play as these legends in their primes NOW! 🎮
Learn more 👉 https://t.co/kmolm2mr8r pic.twitter.com/8fXmQ8rsDu
— EA SPORTS UFC (@EASPORTSUFC) November 4, 2021
2011’s Fight Night Champion was the most recent entry in the series, so a revival is well in order by this point. The series supposedly is in hibernation because licensing top-ranked boxers is incredibly complicated, whereas Electronic Arts could make a much less messy deal with the UFC.
The next big release from Electronic Arts is Battlefield 2042, which is getting a free trial on Xbox Game Pass. Yep, even if you’re on PC, which it looks pretty good on.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
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