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# Please, Tell Me More About The New FIFA Game And The Money Behind It
- URL: https://aftermath.site/new-fifa-game-delphi-netflix/
- Published: 2026-02-18T01:03:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-18T01:03:12.000Z
- Description: None of this sounds exciting, in the slightest
- Author: Luke Plunkett
- Tags: Blog, ea sports fc, sports, fifa, delphi, Video Games

I may have just been reminded to[ never judge a book by its cover](https://aftermath.site/master-commander-total-war-rts-strategy/), but sometimes the cover is so bad that I can't help it.

A few years back EA Sports and FIFA, who had collaborated for decades on the globe-conquering *FIFA* series of video games, split. EA now makes its own series, *EA Sports FC*, and FIFA--when not engaging in [blatant corruption and cronyism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:FIFA%5Fcontroversies?ref=aftermath.site) with [some of the worst people on Earth](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/02/02/infantino-trump-s-compliant-underling-in-the-lead-up-to-the-2026-world-cup%5F6750030%5F23.html?ref=aftermath.site)\--had to find a new partner if they wanted to make some money in the video game space (which they do, all FIFA cares about is making money, see earlier comments).

[I’m Taking It As A Bad Sign That Two Big Games Were Announced With No ScreenshotsOne game overthought it, the other knew exactly what it was doing![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/icon/favicon4-136.png)AftermathLuke Plunkett![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/thumbnail/Screenshot-2025-12-18-114039.png)](https://aftermath.site/medieval-iii-total-war-fifa-netflix-delphi-announce/)

Late last year, it was announced they'd found one! As [I said in December](https://aftermath.site/medieval-iii-total-war-fifa-netflix-delphi-announce/):

> Earlier today Netflix[ announced](https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/fifa-mens-world-cup-2026-game-on-netflix?ref=aftermath.site) that Delphi, a company you've likely never heard of (they're relatively new, and their only public credit is as support on IO's upcoming *007* game) will be both developing and publishing a new FIFA game.

That was all we knew at the time, but now,[ courtesy of an interview Delphi recently conducted with GI.biz](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/meet-delphi-interactive-the-publisherdeveloper-behind-the-new-fifa-game?ref=aftermath.site), we know more. And what we know *sucks*.

> "Delphi has evolved into a full-fledged developer and publisher," \[executive producer\] Tang-Peronard says. "We believe in a lean, highly experienced core team, supported by best-in-class co-development and outsourcing partners." For FIFA, that includes [Refactor Games](https://www.refactorgames.com/?ref=aftermath.site#about), based at Delphi's LA headquarters, part-owned by Delphi and backed by venture capital giant A16z's Speedrun fund. Founded in 2021, it launched physics-heavy American football title [Football Simulator](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1488560/Football%5FSimulator/?ref=aftermath.site) into Early Access in 2022\. The studio employs alumni of VR dev Survios and blockchain dev N3TWORK.

A16z is Andreessen Horowitz, a terrible company even by venture capital's vampiric standards, [run](https://www.thedissident.news/the-techno-fascist-soul-of-marc-andreessen/?ref=aftermath.site) by[ some of the most overt technofascists](https://www.vice.com/en/article/major-tech-investor-calls-architect-of-fascism-a-saint-in-unhinged-manifesto/?ref=aftermath.site) operating[ in Silicon Valley today](https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-rise-of-the-techno-tyrants?ref=aftermath.site). Refactor's site boasts of hires from rights licensing company OneTeam (whose partners are [currently under investigation by the FBI](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6393997/2025/05/30/federal-agents-investigation-mlbpa-nflpa-oneteam/?ref=aftermath.site)) and N3TWORK (a blockchain studio), and their single published sports game, *Football Simulator*,[ is not exactly a smash hit](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1488560/Football%5FSimulator/?ref=aftermath.site#app%5Freviews%5Fhash).

None of that guarantees anything! For all we know a new *FIFA* could turn out to be the sleeper hit of the decade, a true middle finger to [complacent AAA sports gaming](https://aftermath.site/ea-fc-madden-nba-2k-recycled-dogshit/), a rebirth of the FIFA brand and a reward for the millions of gamers exhausted by EA's near-monopoly on the sport.

Or, you know, it could show FIFA have no idea what they're doing, and they're going to get exactly the game they deserve for it.