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EA have come under fire in the UK following BBC's report on minors spending insane amounts of money and even emptying their parents' accounts on FIFA 19 and NBA Live 19 loot boxes. Did we say loot boxes? We meant surprise mechanics.

SuperData analyst firm published their report on the worldwide digital games market in May 2019, and they found that Fortnite's recent slump is recovering on the back of Season 9, while PUBG keeps raking in dough away from the spotlight.

EA recently claimed that they don't sell loot boxes in their games, instead, they choose to call them surprise mechanics, similar to those found in Kinder Surprise. Sonic Twitter found this claim hilarious and decided to mock the publisher.

Thanks to Sony's Days of Play mega sale on PlayStation Store, FIFA 19 and Days Gone have remained on first and second place on UK retail sales charts respectively. The highest placing non-PS title is Microsoft's racer Forza Horizon 4.

Sony's Days of Play promotion has worked wonders for the company's catalogue last week, with almost half the chart reserved for PlayStation 4 titles. However, the promotion also helped EA and FIFA 19, with the latter taking first place.

EA latest post has to do with the future of FIFA, as their Gameplay Beyond FIFA 19 goes into the changes you can expect in the next instalment - FIFA 20. EA will be tweaking AI defending, 1v1 shooting, time finishing, chained moves, etc.

EA have found themselves in yet another false advertising controversy, this time regarding FIFA 19 content that was readily advertised to Switch owners but never delivered. EA's solution? Genius - simply remove it from the advertisements.

There's been much talk about whether the court case of Christiano Ronaldo will affect his standing with EA, what with the man gracing the cover of FIFA 19, and the company finally decided to make the cut and posted the new cover online.

EA's mobile sports line-up has raked in over $1 billion for the publishing hydra to date, according to an analysis by Sensor Tower. Games from the NFL Madden free-to-play line-up account for a majority of microtransaction revenue.

Belgium's government has finally managed to weed out EA's FIFA Ultimate Team point sales in the country. EA announced they are no longer going to sell the gambling-connected currency after a prolonged discussion with the government.