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NCAA Football 14 will be the last college football game produced by video game giant EA Sports. Weeks after announcing that they would be ending their relationship with the NCAA, EA is now stepping away from the college sports table all together, announcing earlier today that will no longer produce a college football video game. This news comes in response to a series of court cases involving former college athletes that have accused the NCAA of profiting off of their likeness without compensating them (this is exactly what the NCAA does, but that's a different story). EA Sports was involved in separate lawsuits related to the matter that they have since settled outside of court. Meanwhile, the NCAA is still embroiled in legal battles with former Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller and former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon. The original plan of action from EA was to part ways with the NCAA and produce a game using the license of individual schools. When major athletic conferences balked at the idea of participating in the project, the eventual decision to cease production was inevitable. This effectively ends the genre of college sports video games for the foreseeable future. At one point, college basketball and baseball were also featured in the EA Sports line up, but now EA Sports has made the decision to separate themselves from one of the largest controversies in sports.
