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If you’ve been wondering what happened to the FIFA licence after its departure from EA, you now have the answer. FIFA Heroes has just been announced today, a 5-a-side football game starring several official FIFA mascots.

These mascots, presented in the announce trailer absent from gameplay footage, are cartoony representatives from three major countries. These include Clutch the eagle from the USA, Zayu the jaguar from Mexico, and of course Maple the moose from Canada.

These mascots will, according to the official press release coinciding with the announcement trailer, have their own “super abilities and special moves” in FIFA Heroes. Players will be able to play in PvE matches as well as online PvP, of course.

You can watch the FIFA Heroes trailer yourself here.Watch on YouTube

Christian Volk, Director of Gaming and eSports at FIFA, wrote in the FIFA Heroes press release: “At FIFA, uniting people through the love of football has always been our priority. With FIFA Heroes, fans can create a multiverse team: mixing their treasured fictional heroes, favourite players, and our own mascots. We’re offering the love of football to a new generation, while rekindling the nostalgia and fun for families and older players who’ve grown up with FIFA. FIFA Heroes fits seamlessly into our digital football portfolio under the FIFAe umbrella, adding another strong pillar to our fast-growing gaming ecosystem.”

Maybe it’ll be good, but it’s a significant departure from FIFA’s previous incarnation within the video game industry. The old FIFA series, now EAFC, had built itself a sizable market share of the sports genre with its realistic depiction of football and its many professional players. FIFA Heroes, on the other hand, is taking the polar opposite approach.

FIFA Heroes will be available in 2026, though the specific date remains unknown. It’ll be available on mobile, Xbox, PlayStation, and the Nintendo Switch.

The news comes this week as EA releases its latest EA FC game, EAFC26. The game appears to be going down well among its fan-base, retaining much of the merits of the series’ prior EAFC titles as well as the FIFA series. EA parted with the FIFA brand back in 2022, but has remained the most popular football series despite the brand shift..

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Two years on from FM25’s initial announce, we finally have our first proper look at actual gameplay from Football Manager 26, the game that supplanted it after FM25’s troubled and ultimately cancelled development.

It’s only a brief tease for now: a one minute, 12 second trailer focusing on footage from the new match engine, developed in Unity for the first time. Here’s that trailer for you to have a look:

Here’s the FM26 teaser reveal trailer in full.Watch on YouTube

An immediate stand-out is the level of visual detail. Stadiums and crowds are significantly improved, looking a bit like a FIFA game from the mid-00s. That might sound like an insult, or back-handed compliment at best, but the differences in what these two types of game are doing under the hood are stark – and Football Manager has to run on significantly less powerful hardware at the same time.

As for other changes, you can read much more in our massive Football Manager 25 and 26 interview with series boss and Sports Interactive studio head Miles Jacobson from just a few days ago, where he details the anatomy of an annualised game cancellation in full – from exactly what happened with FM25, to telling Sega about the need to pull the plug, and then what to expect from FM26 itself. We’ve a little extra from that interview to come too, so keep your eyes on the site for more Football Manager goodness.

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FIFA lives on in a mascot-focused five-a-side football game, coming next year

At last, our first look at Football Manager 26’s flashy new match engine is here, and it’s a bit like classic FIFA