{"id":82266,"date":"2026-05-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82266"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:37:21","slug":"exclusive-first-look-at-ea-sports-fc-26-the-worlds-game-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82266","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: First Look at EA Sports FC 26 The World&#8217;s Game Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>With the World Cup just weeks away, IGN can reveal The World\u2019s Game update for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/ea-sports-fc-26\">EA Sports FC 26<\/a> and EA Sports FC Mobile with exclusive screenshots and details.<\/p>\n<p>The World\u2019s Game Update, due out May 28, lets players lead a nation in a new 48-team international tournament mode starting June 4. EA Sports doesn\u2019t have the official license for the FIFA World Cup itself (EA Sports\u2019 FIFA series switched to EA Sports FC for the 2023 entry), but the new update features 53 fully licensed and playable national teams, 41 of which are competing in the actual World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Fully licensed and playable national teams include Brazil, England, France, Cabo Verde, and Uzbekistan. New stadiums include Gillette Stadium and BMO Field, alongside Central Maw, \u201ca new stadium built to capture the atmosphere of top-tier international football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The slideshow below includes two exclusive images, revealing the Mexico and Morocco national teams as they appear in The World\u2019s Game update. Other images included show Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s Portugal, Virgil van Dijk&#8217;s Holland, and the United States national team.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"ea-sports-fc-26-the-worlds-game-update-screenshots\" data-value=\"ea-sports-fc-26-the-worlds-game-update-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>EA Sports said the World\u2019s Game features two non-licensed teams with authentic players (Egypt, Japan), and five non-licensed generic squads (Algeria, Cura\u00e7ao,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the World Cup just weeks away, IGN can reveal The World\u2019s Game update for EA Sports FC 26 and EA Sports FC Mobile with exclusive screenshots and details. The World\u2019s Game Update, due out May 28, lets players lead a nation in a new 48-team international tournament mode starting June 4. EA Sports doesn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":82268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82270,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82266\/revisions\/82270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}