There hasn’t been a new college football video game since NCAA Football 14 on the PS3/Xbox 360. EA Sports today took to Twitter, however, bringing us the news that we’ve all been waiting on for some years now.
EA Sports is officially bringing college football back to console, with the NCAA Football name seemingly being scrapped and replaced with the series title EA Sports College Football.
Whilst there’s not been too much information made available just yet; there’s already an official Twitter account and it’ll certainly be interesting to see how frequently it gets updated over the coming weeks and months.
We’re blown away by your passion for #EASPORTSCollegeFootball. We look forward to sharing more information as development progresses in the next couple of years.
— EASPORTSCollege (@EASPORTSCollege) February 2, 2021
With a timeframe of ‘the next couple of years’ being quoted though; the return is clearly not something that’s going to happen overnight. This is going to be an ongoing project over the course of the next few years and there are multiple variables here that are subject to change.
Whilst the greenlight has been lit for the return of college sports games; there are still a lot of things to be sorted and many moving parts in the equation. Will the game include feature the names and likeness of real life players? That all remains to be seen, so the name change kind of makes sense as this college football return may not be a strict successor to NCAA Football.
EA Sports may have to do things a bit differently here, but it’s certainly exciting news that they’re working on a new college football game anyway, and we’ll definitely be covering all the updates moving forward. So definitely stay tuned both here and on our YouTube channel to find out more as this all develops!
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