EA Play

EA Play won’t be coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC until some time next year. The addition—which is already part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (for console)—was planned for this month.

It’s in the Game (Pass). Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members will get free access to EA Play starting November 10, the same day Microsoft’s next-gen consoles launch. Members of Game Pass for PC will get it some time in December.

EA Play, the publisher’s recently rebranded subscription service, will finally be available on Steam starting August 31. Previously the only way to use it on PC was through EA’s own Origin client.

EA Play Live has been postponed to June 18 due to “the important conversations taking place around the world.” The event, which was originally scheduled for June 11, is meant to be a digital replacement for the publisher’s typical E3 showcase.

EA is moving ahead with its E3-adjacent event this year as a completely digital showcase. EA Play Live 2020 will take place on June 11 beginning at 7:00 p.m. There’s no schedule for it yet, but EA says the livestream will include world premiers and other news.  

I got to watch a slightly extended version of the Jedi: Fallen Order demo while attending EA Play in LA today. This demo began shortly before the one EA live-streamed and saw main character Cal infiltrate an imperial base on Kashyyyk by blowing the hell out of it. To begin, he scaled a vine-covered AT-AT, took…

Electronic Arts won’t hold an E3 conference this year. The publisher said in a press release today that it will again hold EA Play in Los Angeles during the weekend before E3, but that the focus of the event will be livestreams and hands-on for players. No more soccer memes and disappointing mobile reveals, sadly.

Sea of Solitude is a new indie game coming from Jo-Mei Games in early 2019. The game, shown during this year’s EA Play press conference, certainly has quite a look to it.

Oh yes, it’s already time to start thinking about E3. EA said today that it will again host EA Play, which will still take place in Los Angeles from June 9 to June 11, 2018. Attendees will get to play the next Battlefield, lots of sports games, and “get an inside look at the stunning new action game Anthem.”

Ghost Games says there’ll be a new Need for Speed game before 2017 ends, and it’ll be playable offline, addressing one of the major issues fans had with the 2015 reboot. It’ll have an open world, cops to flee and plenty of car customization. Look for more details at the EA Play event in June.