Update: New reports suggest that there will be one more EA Sports football name under the FIFA name.
Video Games Cronicle reported that FIFA 23 would be the last game to have FIFA in the title before the name will change to "EA Sports FC" once the license expires following the 2022 World Cup.
One week ago, it was revealed that EA SPORTS’ FIFA franchise will likely switch their name. Now a new trademark filing taken out by EA reveals the likely new name of the most famous football video game.
Only this year, Konami rebranded their Pro Evolution Soccer title to eFootball while also becoming a free-to-play model.
EA Sports FC: Electronic Arts Secure Trademark Rights
"EA Sports FC". Electronic Arts Inc. filed this exact name last week with the United Kingdom’s Intellectual Property Office, the European Union Intellectual Property Office as well as the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
We created two mock-ups of the possible new logo
EA registered the name as "a computer game software and online computer game entertainment".
EA SPORTS FC™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of entertainment services, namely, providing an online computer game; provision of information relating to electronic computer games provided via the Internet.
The new logo of EA Sports FC was not leaked yet. We created two mock-ups of how it could look like.
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