{"id":18939,"date":"2018-04-30T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/fifa_18s_free_world_cup_mode_arrives_on_may_29th"},"modified":"2018-04-30T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T14:20:00","slug":"fifa-18s-free-world-cup-mode-arrives-on-may-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/30\/fifa-18s-free-world-cup-mode-arrives-on-may-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 18&#8217;s Free World Cup Mode Arrives On May 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/fifa_18s_free_world_cup_mode_arrives_on_may_29th\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/fifa_18s_free_world_cup_mode_arrives_on_may_29th\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Winners.\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/fifa_18s_free_world_cup_mode_arrives_on_may_29th\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/fifa_18s_free_world_cup_mode_arrives_on_may_29th\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Winners.\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Those of you with long memories will no doubt recall that, once upon a time, EA never missed a trick when it came to milking the lucrative FIFA licence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As well as the yearly FIFA updates we&#8217;d also get special editions, such as <strong>FIFA: Road to World Cup &#8217;98<\/strong> (which took the place of the yearly entry for 1997) which was then followed by <strong>World Cup &#8217;98<\/strong> a year later, along with <strong>FIFA 99<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve since seen official World Cup video games from EA for the 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 competitions, too &#8211; but this year, there&#8217;s no official game on the way. Instead, EA is generously updating the current FIFA 18 game to include World Cup 2018 content.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\" readability=\"1.1550802139\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"4.04278074866\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get ready for \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The FIFA <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldCup<\/a> update comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFA18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIFA18<\/a> for free on May 29th! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FmkXh2Mtcz\">https:\/\/t.co\/FmkXh2Mtcz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1dg57faJRi\">pic.twitter.com\/1dg57faJRi<\/a>\u2014 EA SPORTS FIFA (@EASPORTSFIFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EASPORTSFIFA\/status\/990953933500764160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The update will be free to download and arrives on May 29th. Excited much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you with long memories will no doubt recall that, once upon a time, EA never missed a trick when it came to milking the lucrative FIFA licence.\u00a0 As well as the yearly FIFA updates we&#8217;d also get special editions, such as FIFA: Road to World Cup &#8217;98 (which took the place of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}