EA and the NFL extend exclusive partnership for Madden games until 2026

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Electronic Arts as well as the Nationwide Football Merger have renewed the exclusivity contract that gives the game publisher exclusive rights to manufacture alleged simulation football games, which is the codification acclimated for photorealistic football outlander featuring licensed aggregation names as well as resolving players.

The contract now extends to May 2026, although banking terms of the deal, like past contracts between EA as well as the NFL, were not disclosed. The fellow-feeling was voted on as well as canonical on Thursday, although Polygon reports the terms were decided vanward today's vote among aggregation owners as well as that any such vote over NFL's video game licensing renewal is merely a rituality at this point.

While some football listeners may have been hoping for the NFL to expand its licensing to other sports game franchises like 2K, EA as well as its Madden series will reside the only way to comedy simulation football for the reckonable future. 2K Sports, endemic by competing video game publisher Take-Two Interactive, signed a fellow-feeling with the NFL inadvertently in March that grants it rights to manufacture non-simulation football games. That agency 2K cannot revive its Madden competitor NFL 2K as well as is restricted to what the EA as well as NFL fellow-feeling calls "arcade-style games, youth games, as well as casual/mobile games."