EA Play Live 2022: How to watch and what games to expect

EA Play Alive 2021: How to watch and what games to expect

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E3 2021 has come up and gone, and that ways it's fourth dimension for this summer'southward bevy of smaller gaming livestreams to begin. The side by side one on the roster is EA Play Live, which will take identify on July 22. Last twelvemonth's event was a big hit, showing off Star Wars: Squadrons, Skate four and FIFA 21, among other titles.

This year, wait new data on Battlefield 2042, Knockout City and perchance fifty-fifty the return of a beloved horror franchise. As for when you'll exist able to watch, the EA Play Live 2021 broadcast begins at ten a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. BST.

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EA hasn't yet posted a link to its livestream, just you'll almost certainly be able to picket information technology on the Electronic Arts YouTube aqueduct. Considering that EA revealed the livestream information on Twitter, embedding a livestream link in the Electronic Arts Twitter account also doesn't seem impossible.

Exist aware that the start time denotes the EA pre-bear witness; the chief prove volition follow, only EA doesn't specify when. (Looks like we're in for another "countdown to a countdown" state of affairs.)

EA Play Alive is only a month away! Watch our pre-evidence July 22nd starting at 10AM PT/1PM ET, followed by the main showcase. See you then. 👋 motion-picture show.twitter.com/1PZ5IXRYePJune 22, 2021

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A follow-up tweet gave u.s. one other piece of solid news. The host for EA Play Live 2021 will be Austin Creed, aka Xavier Woods of the WWE. Creed is no stranger to gaming events, as he likewise works equally a host on G4TV. (The response was a mix of applause for the old tag squad champion and tech support queries.)

EA Play Alive 2021: Possible games

EA didn't hash out any of the games that volition be on display, so fans volition have to use their imaginations — and a little common sense — to determine what the visitor volition bear witness off. Battlefield 2042 seems similar a very rubber bet, since it's a highly anticipated game and we got our beginning substantial await at it during E3. On the EA website, in that location'south as well a Knockout City grapheme beneath the livestream information, so an update or two for the popular online multiplayer game seems reasonable.

Some fans on Twitter have as well theorized that we'll finally become new information almost Dragon Age 4. It'southward been a while since our last big DA4 update, and in that location seems to exist a wolf shape in ane of the Twitter illustrations — but that could also just exist a Rorschach examination for content-starved Dragon Age fans.

1 intriguing possibility is that EA may discuss a revival of its dormant action/horror series Expressionless Space. A handful of reliable games journalists have suggested that Dead Infinite will get a "reimagining" rather than a direct sequel to Dead Space iii, and that we'll learn more than most the new game during EA Play Live. It sounds plausible, but every bit usual, we'll reserve our judgment until EA says something definitively.

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Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom'due south Guide, overseeing the site'southward coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a science writing background, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of scientific discipline and technology. After hours, you tin detect him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi.