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EA agrees to pay tens of millions to college athletes

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Electronic Arts has agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars to current and former college athletes to settle a lawsuit about using their likenesses in the animated images in EA Sports games.

“This is a historic settlement,” said lead attorney for the players, Michael Hausfeld. “This settlement represents an acknowledgment that the NCAA’s rules barring payment to current and former players cannot stand.”

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.