It's no secret that Ultimate Team is the most popular game mode within EA Sports FC, with plenty of players actively trading and playing against each other in a competition to EA FC 24 Coins build up the best team with the best chemistry. World Cup Ultimate Team brings this experience to the World Cup stage, allowing players to build new teams based off of any player in the 32 nations which qualified for the cup — and lead them to glory in the most prestigious competition of them all.

Teams in World Cup mode have chemistry based off of their governing football body and nation, as opposed to individual leagues. Gamers won't be able to port over existing squads from Ultimate Team, allowing World Cup to be played completely separately — and for everyone to start on even ground. As a bonus, each World Cup card pack will feature a Gold Pack for the regular Ultimate Team mode.

The update also adds the Estadio do Marcana from Brazil, which is the stadium that will host the World Cup Final this year. The official World Cup 2022 matchball also becomes available for World Cup matches. The update doesn't bring unqualified countries into contention, so those from places like Canada looking to bring their country to glory would still have to buy the official EA Sports FC World Cup 2022 game, which includes all 203 countries which take part in the cup.

EA Sports also included a regular World Cup Kickoff Mode, so that players could enjoy the atmosphere of Brazil with the regular World Cup teams. It's a big breath of fresh air for the franchise, and the fact that the developer is supporting the title with such a large update mere months ahead of the eventual launch of FC 24 is a great demonstration of EA's continued support for the game. As if this wasn't enough, the update is also completely free, and weighs in at over 500MB.

February is a bit of a dry month when it comes to video game releases, which makes it a great time to look back on the biggest hits of 2022. It was an exciting year in gaming, not only due to the launch of two major new consoles, but also because of the high quality of storytelling and gameplay in the titles that were released.

This made for an extremely competitive awards season, as each gaming site elected its own Game of the Year, and last week saw The Last of Us dominating the D.I.C.E. Awards. Now the games of 2022 are set to Fut 24 Coins go head-to-head once more in the British Academy Games Awards, which will take place in mid-March.