
EA Sports UFC is a commixed martial arts fighting video game developed by Electronic Arts and SkyBox Labs for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It is predicated on the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) brand and was relinquished on June 17, 2014. A playable demo was relinquished on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Rialto on June 3, 2014, with cover athletes Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson as playable fighters. It is the first UFC game since THQ sold the license to Electronic Arts.
With the growing popularity of MMA (the UFC banner categorically) and THQ's prosperity, Electronic Arts commenced working on EA Sports MMA, featuring UFC's then promotional rival, Strikeforce. After the closing of THQ, Electronic Arts promulgated a "multi-year, multi-product" partnership with the Ultimate Fighting Championship at the Electronic Regalement Expo 2012.

Sports for an "undisclosed cash payment". The first gameplay for the game was shown at the Xbox One reveal event in a trailer by EA Sports. The game is one of the first to run Electronic Arts's Ignite engine. Electronic Arts put its Fight Night boxing franchise on hold while developing EA Sports UFC. The company verbally expressed that the decision was predicated primarily on its perception that the UFC has more preponderant international prominence, albeit EA Sports did offer that the boxing series could potentially return. The Fight Night team (EA Canada) became the UFC team.



