hello and welcome everyone to ea play
2020
we're happy that you're joining us today
over the next 45 minutes or so
we've got so much for you including
creative innovative
and really fun new games and a lot of
news to share
what's up everybody i'm greg miller and
welcome to ea play
we had an incredible show in la playing
for you huge stage massive set up these
giant monitors
i was going to fly in on an x-wing i was
going to land the x-wing on stage i was
going to set off a bunch of fireworks
then what t-shirt came in bam
shooting out game consoles then carol
baskins some tigers
that last part was all me then because
of circumstances beyond our control we
had to come up with something a little
different
instead of la i'm in my hometown of san
francisco but we stole the tigers
what's that james no tigers so you lie
okay
all right i'm being told there are no
tigers but whatever we're still gonna
bring you the ea
play you know and love huge surprises
big announcements
incredible reveals in never-before-seen
gameplay
coming up over the next hour we've got
game reveals galore
world premiere trailers of new titles
some old favorites making a comeback
a look and a new way star wars fans can
live out their greatest fantasies
this year plus a sneak peek at the
future so don't go anywhere
who am i kidding none of us can leave
our houses uh but enough talking
let's see some games up first we're
headed to the outlands
that's right it's apex legends time
you should smile more
hey apex fans the battle just keeps
getting bigger thanks to you
apex legends is coming off its most
successful most epic season yet
and we're just getting started season
four saw more of you jumping into the
fight than ever before and you've kept
that amazing momentum going forward
making season five the biggest
and best start to a season ever
took out
an enemy
hold on to your holograms
we hope you've been enjoying season five
fortune's favor
which has seen the introduction of our
latest legend loba
a major map change to kings canyon
rest
in peace skull town
an all new ranked series and a ton of
quality of life updates but it's about
to get even better
today i'm here to tell you about what's
coming next to season 5 with our latest
collection event
lost treasures
take a look
adventurers raiders
explorers... they risk everything in such a fame
fortune and answers
few find what they're looking for
but if they survive they might walk away
with lost treasures
how high five you are when i
see you
mobile respawn beacon here
i don't need guns i know what i'm
looking for
i won't walk away without it
t it's me be careful he's watching you
as you just saw the lost treasures
collection event brings with it a ton of
great content
including a new limited time mode armed
and dangerous
evolved it's the return of a fan
favorite
snipers and shotties only but with a twist
sending out my decoy
all armor is evil armor and we're
removing all of the respawn beacons
across the entire map
don't worry though you'll still be able
to bring back your teammates with the
help of a new item
the mobile respawn beacon
you'll have one of these in your
inventory at the start of each match
giving you the power to choose when
and more importantly where you bring
your teammates back into the battle
lost treasures also introduces a new
town takeover crypto's map room
which gives players a closer look at
what motivates this drone-wielding hacker
and of course the lost treasures
collection delivers a bunch of exclusive
content
you can earn by completing challenges as
well as all new event exclusive cosmetic
items
and the introduction of yaboy mirage's
heirloom which is fittingly a trophy of
himself
excited to see you all in the ring don't
worry there's plenty of me's to go around
and the best part is you don't have to
wait that long lost treasures drops on
tuesday june 23rd
and that's not all apex fans the battle
is expanding
that's right this fall we're bringing
apex legends to steam
and i know you're hoping wondering
praying so before you ask
yeah crossplay is coming to apex this
fall
it's been one of the biggest requests we
get and we're thrilled to finally
deliver it to our fans
what am i forgetting oh yeah one last
thing let's make it official
we're huge fans of nintendo here at
respawn and we are incredibly excited to
be bringing apex legends to the switch
this fall
and we'll share more details in the
months ahead so that means you'll be
able to squad up no matter where you and
your friends prefer to play
xbox playstation switch or on the pc via
origin and steam
we're throwing out a lifeline and
healing the divide between the platforms
on behalf of the entire apex team we
want to thank our incredible community
your passion for the game is truly
inspiring we look forward to seeing you
all in the arena and don't forget
check out lost treasures on june 23rd
whoa oh man that was amazing
i think i fight for my hyperbole i think
i'm hypervent
i've had a really good time here
everyone one thing i admire about apex
legends is its commitment to having such
a diverse range of characters
at the sims we've always believed
representation and diversity in games is
critically important
perhaps now more than ever it's
difficult to put into words
just how meaningful it can be to see
yourself reflected in the games you play
so here to tell you in their own words
are a few members of our sims community
it's a very interesting thing to explain
it feels
empowering actually and very moving it
really taught me a lot
the importance of just like keeping
relationships good with people
it's probably like the only place where
i was open
they get to see my personality first
before
seeing my disability i guess you could
say i found myself to be the only black
child
in my school i was discriminated i was
bullied my skin tone
my height and my teeth i first realized
i was trans
and i had i was like praying to god
to undo it i have this world where i can
express myself and be myself where i
come from who i am the color of my skin
you know who i'm attracted to let any of
that get in the way
it was it was no barriers no matter
where i was or what i was going through
i had my safe place this is
plausible this is a future you can have
it was almost like i was
peeking into the future and i didn't
know it at the time but it gave me hope
it gave me a sense of hope that i could
build a life that looked like that
the sims is almost like a utopia of what
i hope our world
eventually becomes as i got more
comfortable with my character
in the game i got more comfortable with
i myself to build me i play
to express myself i play
to make a difference i play to feel good
about myself
i play to have confidence
it's more than just a game it's
creating your life
as you just saw there are so many
reasons why i am proud to be part of the
sims global community
we want the sims to be a place of unity
and hope
a place where you can be your authentic
self and build your vision for our
shared world
a place to imagine what's possible to
our simmers thank you for everything
you've done
to make your communities virtual and
real a better place
now i know some of you tuned in hoping
for some sims news and we'll have plenty
to share as the summer goes on but we do
have one announcement for you we'll be
welcoming players on a whole new
platform as the sims 4 arrives on steam
today
take a look
hey everyone alex here from the social
team and joining me today from our
community team is freeman
hey folks yes we're here to tell you
that it's not just the sims 4 arriving
on steam today
five more great ea games including
titanfall 2
a way out and dead space free at all
playable
right this second and when ea access
arrives on steam this fall
you can get all those great titles and a
ton more with your membership
you can also expect to see our new
releases on steam too
one of the first arrived just a short
while ago with full mod support via
steamworks
the critics love it and we know you will
too this is command and conquer
remastered
welcome back commander
and steam isn't the only platform
getting some love
we'll be bringing games to more
platforms than ever you can expect
seven new games coming to switch in the
next 12 months
including burnout paradise coming
tomorrow and
apex legends later this year and we're
bringing cross play to many of your
favorite games too
starting with need for speed heat and
continuing with some new titles being
revealed
later in the show it's all about giving
you the freedom to play what you want
where you want and with who you want
it's about playing together
absolutely now let's reveal some more
games over to you greg
sometimes you just have this great idea
of a game but it can be really hard to
do it on your own
we wanted uh space for our studio's
creativity to flow free
so that we could try unconventional
approaches to solving new ideas
there are times where you've got to like
break past your own sort of mental
blocks
even if that meant building a whole new
kind of game engine
we get to do the game we want to do
nothing
and i mean nothing comes into the game
if it doesn't follow the vision
we can really push our ideas further and
bigger than we first imagined
let's find that magic
let's do it
please welcome
joseph ferris
there are like passionate people they
are crazy people and there is me
okay can you swear here he is okay the
oscars you know
the oscars
no apologies there yeah i know i'm cocky
i can't help it man
i was born in beirut 1977 i lived there
10 years there was civil war and there
was a lot of
bad stuff happening there
we tried to move five times to sweden
the fifth time they let us in
and that's lucky for sweden because i've
given sweden a lot you know
my third movie is zozo it's basically
about my life
when i came to sweden when i was young
i've done five fishing movies and i've
done three games and it's way hard to
make a game
it's almost like the audience have
control of the pacing of the story
while the movies is being paced for you
in videogames there's so much to be
explored from a storytelling perspective
because of the interactivity
there are some students out there that
are making games that have good stories
but they pretty much have one mechanic
like you reuse all the time
the designers and the story writers are
kind of like doing two different games
that's why i founded his life to keep
pushing the boundaries when it's
possible in games
that's what game number three from his
life is all about
and action
the new game it takes two
is a co-op action adventure platformer
that will blow your fucking mind away
the story starts out with a small family
cody
may that's the parents and then rose the
little daughter so cody may about
separate rose doesn't want them to
divorce so she creates two dolls out of
wood and clay
and these dolls magically come alive and
actually controls
both cody and may and you could say
you're almost controlling their emotions
you're all always playing their emotions
there's even levels where we're actually
making a mechanic for their emotions
so again marrying the story and the
mechanics and i think
for the players that's going to feel
very new different and unique they
haven't played anything like this before
it takes two is a crazy rollercoaster
ride
that doesn't really have an enemy it has
an ending but
that end is that the roller coaster
crashes and you fly into the sky and get
up into space and when you're in space
you're like
what the fuck am i doing up here and
then maybe you get back to
earth again that's the best way to
describe that it takes two actually
thanks greg welcome to gothenburg and
well
my home unfortunately i didn't bring you
any swedish fish but
we do have some exciting news for you
about our latest game
at sewing we've always been driven by
love of rich visual storytelling and
creating strange worlds that people can
escape to
the weirder the better and i think my
friend ola
would agree
yeah absolutely and for our
next game though we wanted to try
something a little darker
something out of a gothic fairy tale but
started with a mood and some paintings
grew into this eerie strange world that
feels like something out of a
beautiful twisted dream and that's the
world of random
lost and random is the story of even a
little girl with a big heart
and an even bigger temper after a
horrible event that changes her life
she embarks on a dangerous journey
through the world random
but fortunately she's not alone just
like i have ola
even also has a crazy little weird
friend thing
with her
along her journey even
discovers dicey
a playful loyal almost puppy-like diced
companion that gives her the power to
really
change things in the kingdom of random
despite the name in even's world
randomness is feared
and the dark force controls every aspect
of life from where you live to how you
act or
what your favorite color is it's a
coming of age story
set against the backdrop of a mysterious
world but it holds a modern message
that's really relevant to our world
right now
i think we can all relate to the desire
to try and control the chaos around us
with dicey's help though even learns the
power in doing just the opposite
embrace the randomness accept
uncertainties in life
and you'll be surprised how far it takes you
imagine if you
could change the course of life with the
role of a dice what would you do
play it safe or trust in yourself and
take a chance
we can't wait for you to play and find
out we're still a long ways from launch
but we hope you will join even and dicey
on the journey next year
until then please enjoy this first look
at
lost and random
welcome to random
the world of random bends with the role
of one dice
a dice that has ruled this kingdom
for generations transforming the fates
of people just like you
but what if i told you there is another
dice
with the power to change everything
now my friend it's your turn to rule
to play the odds and break
the curse of random
without the shower
no dicey they should be scared of us
right
at final strike games our team of
experienced industry veterans have
worked on incredible multiplayer
franchises
we are passionately focused on making
great multiplayer games
that's why i am incredibly excited to
announce that we have partnered with the
talented team at ea
to release our first ever title
rocket arena
as you'll see we stay loyal to the name
of the game it's a rockets only shooter
that allows players to get into the
action quickly and stay in the fight
we wanted rocket arena to be an awesome
competitive experience to play with
friends
i think you're going to love what we've
got in store for you here is the
all-new trailer of rocket arena enjoy
rockets away let's kick this into gear
the trophy will soon be mine
have you ever wondered why life is so
good on crater
sure we've got the beautiful beaches
quality public transportation
and exotic destinations another victory
the people are courteous and friendly
jolly good for me
and always happy to
help their fellow citizens
are you leaving already but the real
reason life is so good
we've got rockets
let's hit the trail
i hunger for battle
never turn your back on the water
so as you just saw rockets are obviously
awesome to blast all over
the place but in order to come out on
top there's a lot to master
you'll have a range of rocket-powered
abilities to blast opponents out of the
arena
and an arsenal of evasive moves rocket
jump
rocket climb and dodge to avoid getting
knocked out yourself
don't worry though you're never out of
the action for long even when you're out
you'll fly right back into the fray
you'll also be able to really customize
your own unique look and play style
each of the 10 heroes available at
launch have their own rocket-powered
abilities
and as you play you'll discover items
that allow you to further refine
each of your hero's playstyles plus
every character has a hundred levels of
progression
that unlock new cosmetics and rewards
all that
and much more when rocket arena arrives
on july 14th
and there's plenty more content to come
in our first season which begins just
two weeks after launch
on july 28th and brings with it a blast
pass
and a ton of free content including new
maps
in-game events and a new playable
character
rocket arena is a game meant to be
played with friends regardless
of platform that's why we're thrilled to
announce
cross-play support right from the start
so grab your friends regardless of their
platform and get ready to blast off with
rocket arena
on july 14th on playstation xbox origin
and steam
and we'll be sharing more gameplay right
after the show with the help of some
great content creators
so check us out on youtube at the link
below
see you in the arena
seize that moment
when the perfect shot
makes history
five pilots
one squadron the galaxy's finest
wow the eight-year-old and all of us is
celebrated and excited
the 37 year old man on this couch is
excited ladies and gentlemen for the
second year in a row i have the honor
and privilege of helping introduce a new
star wars title
and here to put the hype in hyperdrive
is none other than motive's creative
director ian frazier hello ian
hey greg how you doing i'm great how are
you
doing good happy to actually get to show
this to people i bet
now uh in my copious notes i have on you
i'm told you are quite the star wars fan
and have been a long time how long have
you liked star wars
i've been a star wars fan for pretty
much my whole life i don't even remember
the first time i saw the movies
and as a kid there was a lot of
different parts of star wars i loved
one of them was being a pilot that idea
of climbing into an x-wing or a tie
fighter
so you know i played all the flight
games in the 90s and i got pretty
obsessive about them i'd pause
meticulously draw the insides of the
cockpits and stuff and actually i
dug up some of those drawings from my
parents attic over the holidays
we're showing them right now to the
world this strikes me as above and
beyond the normal level of star wars
fandom
uh i think at motiv you'll find that
quite a few people have that level of
star wars fandom uh
we started this project i talked to a
lot of people as they joined the team
and a lot of them had similar kinds of
stories of things they'd done as kids
one of them even built a functional
cockpit in his garage
wow that's that's fandom on another
level
how do you guys go from being a fan
drawing what you see in the game or
building a cockpit in your garage
to actually making this game well i
think that fandom just love of star wars
has provided a really good foundation
for us
but on top of that of course the team at
motive got a lot of experience working
with star wars when they worked on
battlefront 2
and when battlefront 2 wrapped up there
was a really small group of us that were
really into
particularly the pilot experience within
star wars and we wanted to make
something new
something that really went all in on
that part of the fantasy
and so we we did kind of a grassroots
initiative or started a little passion
project
and that ramped up into eventually what
is the game we're going to show you
today
you talk about you know your passion for
this your
nostalgia for star wars flight games of
the past
how do you honor that but make something
brand new
it's been interesting you know we're
trying to kind of pull from that
spiritual heritage of many different
games in that time period
um at the same time we want to do
something that feels fresh and new for
fans today
and so we've tried to look at is sort of
the spiritual core of what i think are
the best of the star wars flight games
of the past
and what they did that i love is that
they made that part of the universe
real the level of depth and detail that
they show in the ships the way that you
control them
is something that i remember fondly from
my childhood and it's something that
we're trying to do very much with
squadrons
you know in real life being a pilot is
is hard it takes skill
and that's something that you'll see
throughout the game you know as you
start off playing it's pretty
straightforward
fly around shoot your lasers but as you
get deeper into it you start learning
how to divert energy
from your lasers to your to your engines
how to shift your shields from the front
to the back to cover your butt in a
dogfight
or at the higher levels of skill you can
do really crazy stuff like you can boost
your engines
fly ahead cut them off whip around 180
and shoot a missile off your own tail
while drifting backwards
like real ace pilot stuff and that's
that's really where we have a lot of fun
with the game
i want to do that i want to learn how to
do that
i understand the nuts and bolts of how
to play it is there a single player
story
is there a multiplayer mode what are we
getting into it's actually some of both
so the game starts with a brand new
single player story takes place a little
bit after return of the jedi
and it has kind of a unique dual
perspective approach to it
so when the game starts you're going to
create two pilots you create a new
republic pilot and an imperial pilot
and you're going to alternate between
their perspectives mission to mission
over the course of the story
you're going to meet a diverse cast of
characters along the way and also a few
familiar faces
now when you're done with that story and
you've played maybe a bit in the
practice range you say hey i want to try
multiplayer
we want to make it really easy for you
to hop online with your friends and play
competitive space battles at that point
and so we've done a lot to try to reduce
the barriers to make it as easy as
possible for you to play with your
friends
and so i'm happy to say we fully support
cross play
you could be on ps4 xbox one pc
you could be playing on a traditional
display or in vr which
fun fact the entire game supports vr
from beginning to end
pretty cool but regardless of how you're
playing which platform they can all play
together just hook up with your friend
connect have an awesome space battle you
just death started my mind man like i
don't
that's awesome that is uh the big
question
uh when can people actually play it ah
not too long actually
star wars squadrons is coming out on
october 2nd okay
okay not too long at all i was worried
about you i thought you're going to
leave me on a teaser there you didn't
you actually delivered i appreciate that
the next big ask i have on behalf of
everybody watching i'm sure who came
here for one
specific reason can we see some new
gameplay of it can we see any gameplay
of it
absolutely i i kind of figured you might
want to on behalf of everyone at motive
and the team at lucasfilm i am
very happy to show you the world's first
look at gameplay of star wars squadrons
enjoy
the second death star is gone but the
imperial fleet is still a threat
vanguard squadron let's make history
this is it titan squadron everything
we've done has led to this
finish those vanguard skunks
this is star wars squadrons earn your
wings in a single player story spanning
two factions all stations fire on that
ship
and master multiplayer battles as a
squadron of five
with the option to play the entire game
in vr
this is the definitive star wars pilot
experience
you'll begin your career in a single
player story
welcome to titan squadron
where you'll
play as two combat pilots
flying for both the empire and the new
republic
you'll experience this world through
your cockpit
the instrumentation in front of you
provides critical feedback
about power management targeting and
shields
with a squadron of diverse characters at
your side
prove your skills on increasingly
challenging missions
one of my spies has linked the attacks
with the new republic starhawk project
the story of the two pilots you play
stick together
we'll shake the balance of power in the
galaxy
get ready
let them happen
to take the fight online you'll need
flight time with all eight ships
fighters are the most flexible and
versatile able to handle
any situation interceptors are fast
and highly maneuverable
let's get them
ideal for hunting down your opponent's
fighters
that was kind
of fun support
ships can keep allies safe
and stocked up as well as disrupting
enemy fighters
bombers are the heavy hitters able to
deal devastating damage to enemy
flagships and star fighters
if you've got a preferred component you
need something customized
i'll take care of it
unlock everything
you need to customize your pilot and
starfighters
simply by playing the game from
cosmetics
to an arsenal of over 50 components that
alter how your ships fly
bite and survive
they're on you
i'll deal with it you can dramatically
change your loadout depending on your
squadron's strategy
finally got him
this will be critical in
star wars squadron's multiplayer modes
first up dogfights
this is an all-out 5v5 battle
fine-tune your loadouts to work as a
team
moving in on the enemy
utilize components like tractor beams
turrets and mines to slow down your
opponents
or set up your squad mates for the kill
for teams looking for an even greater
challenge
it's time to prove yourself in star wars
squadron's signature mode
fleet battles fleet battles are
multi-stage conflicts
whether playing solo or with friends
you'll have the option to compete
against other players
or ai as a squadron of five
don't worry i got them for you
meet your
team in the social hub to solidify
strategy
coordinate loadouts and prepare for takeoff
first push the front line by winning the
dogfight in the center of the map
next attack or defend two medium-sized
capital ships
we've lost our capital ships
and finally the ultimate goal target and
destroy the subsystems of your
opponent's
massive flagship and take it down
shields are disabled
at each phase
your squadron either pushes the line forward
or falls back to defend
keep our flagship safe
it's your squadron's choice of how to play
speedy unrelenting assaults
stay together
strike quickly
stealth and subversion
jamming the enemy sensors can't spot you
or brutal bombardment
this step is vulnerable take your shot
we need to hurry
a unified squadron is the key to victory
making my attack run now
this is star wars squadrons
join the galaxy's finest and make your
mark
you are the hope of this galaxy
what's up everyone it's your boy mark
jackson i'm excited to be a part of the
ea sports family
good to be you guys new mad cover
athlete i can't wait to show you guys
what we have stuff here this season
this is ea sports next level
you feel it all can you feel that burst
of speed
it's like i'm lightning in that moment
i'm untouchable
i'm not playing i'm not afraid of
anything i'm not afraid to hit
or get hit this game is
my one true love i don't feel like
somebody
i never thought
score that goal then you're a hero
and history carves your name
you know what it sounds like
60 000 people singing your song
i can't live without that feeling
i feel football in my heart
i want the real thing
i don't want to feel it all
thanks greg and thanks lamar welcome to
the ea sports family
there are great things that come from ea
sports for all of you and that's just
the beginning
as you've seen throughout the show today
our electronic artists are working hard
to bring you
more of the games that you want to play
games like star wars squadrons
apex legends and command and conquer
these games all exist because of you
your voices are heard and we are acting
on your feedback
now we've talked a lot about all the
exciting games you'll be playing this
year
but our studios are working even further
out creating new experiences new stories
new gameplay
all enabled by new console technology
and we're so excited about what's to
come we don't want to wait until next
june to share what the teams are working
on
generation shifts are an opportunity to
push beyond the boundaries of gaming as
we know it today
and this time is no different our
studios are taking their crazy ambitious
ideas
and making them real criterion is known
for how their games feel
from superior physics to nuanced details
of gameplay
this team hand curates the moment to
moment experience
and with the new consoles this year
there will be a seamless immersion which
will get you into the race
in a matter of seconds
bioware imagines and creates worlds
where you become the hero
of your own story and we're using this
next generation of technology
to make those fantasy worlds your
reality
for every console generation dice sets
the bar for excellence in audio and
visual presentation
we are creating epic battles at a scale
and fidelity
unlike anything you've experienced
before
at motive we are working on a highly
ambitious and innovative new game that
puts the power and creativity
in your hands and it's an experience
that would have been impossible without
next-gen technology
this is just the beginning of the things
we are working on
and there is so much more to come the
future of ea studios is not just about
new technology
it's about you your voices your ideas
we want to be where you come to play we
want to make games for
everyone so please keep giving us your
feedback and let's build the future
together
on behalf of all of our studios thank
you for joining us today
but before we sign off there's just one
more game
we would love to share cousin darren
over to you
thank you
uh so the moment is here we finally get
to say
we're back we're doing it skates
happening we're rolling
we've secretly got together it's the
beginning the skate evolution continues
we've been waiting years honestly to to
make the right game
at the right time with the right idea
and uh really really pleased to say that
we're here
it is really early but uh it takes a
little while to find cuz or wake him up
dude of course still we've got a long
way to go but we're stoked
and this is just the beginning and
seriously we really can't wait to bring
you guys in and have you be a part of it
with us
we want to thank you for your passion
your patience and all the support that
you've shown you know us to get to this
point
the comments it's it's amazing we cannot
believe
you commented this into existence
amazing
skate changed my life thank you so much
skate forever
now this has been an amazing experience
an amazing opportunity for all of us all
over the world to come together and
celebrate gaming thank you
for being part of ea play until next
time i'll see you online and it's been
my pleasure to serve
