EA Is Making an Open World Football Game

Electronic Arts is developing an open-world American football game under the codename Project Gridiron , two senior company officials have confirmed. The project is intended to introduce a new social concept to the publisher's sports lineup, although many details remain unclear, including whether Project Gridiron will be a standalone game or merely a more ambitious "experience," a term EA used several times when describing it. The first mention of Project Gridiron surfaced in an October 21 letter to EA's employees outlining the group's first major portfolio reset since the company's $55 billion acquisition by a consortium led by Saudi Arabia's…