FIFA 20.

FIFA 20 tops 25 million players while Madden reaches highest engagement ever

Electronic Arts said in its earnings release that FIFA 20 topped 25 million players while Madden reached its highest engagement ever.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson said in a statement that he was humbled to see people around the world connecting through games during this “unprecedented period,” but he didn’t specifically say that the big numbers were related to the pandemic.

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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.