EA will stop supporting eight mobile games between now and March 13, including seven games published by Glu, the company it acquired in 2021 for $2.1bn.
It leaves the Glu label with just two live games on the stores, Cooking Dash and Diner Dash Adventures. Design Home and Covet Fashion continue to be published under the Crowdstar label, which Glu acquired back in 2016.
EA pre-announced disappointing Q325 financial results yesterday, stating that EA FC and Dragon Age: Veilguard have underperformed. EA also revised its earnings outlook downwards as a result.
The mobile titles being closed join several other high profile mobile games that EA has discontinued in the last few years.
According to EA’s live service updates webpage, the below games are shutting down permanently on January 29 2025:
- Blood & Glory Immortals
- Contract Killer: Sniper
- Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores
- Deer Hunter Classic
- Eternity Warriors 4
- Frontline Commando 2
- Frontline Commando: D-Day
EA is also shuttering EA Sports UFC Mobile 2 on March 13 2025. Most of the above titles were already effectively dead or removed from the app stores.
This follows on from the previously-announced shutdown of The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Tap Sports Baseball, F1 Mobile, Lord of the Rings: Heroes and Kim Kardhashian: Hollywood. EA also pulled Plants Vs Zombies 3 from soft launch in October 2024, but said it would be back after a ‘major overhaul’.
EA barely mentioned its mobile roster in a three-hour investor day presentation in September 2024; having merged many of its mobile and ‘HD’ teams, it said it would only be making “concentrated bets” in mobile in the future.
Of those ‘concentrated bets’, two of EA’s forthcoming mobile titles lean on its popular EA Sports FC brand. As readers of our regular soft launch games updates will already know, EA Sports FC Empires is currently in beta in six test markets, and adds strategy and builder mechanics to football management gameplay.
Fellow soft launch title EA FC Tactical is described by its publisher as a ‘strategic turn-based’ spin on football, where players build their ultimate team. It was first announced in October 2023, and entered soft launch in six test markets in May 2024.
Neither of the soft launch games have a release date yet. EA also had a new version of Need of Speed and a match 3 game based on its Plants Vs Zombies IP in testing on Google Play, but neither has been formally announced or appear to be close to entering a formal soft launch.
In January 2023, EA also announced the cancellation of Apex Legends Mobile, Battlefield Mobile, and the shuttering of mobile studio Industrial Toys. We later discussed the demise of Battlefield Mobile studio Industrial Toys with studio founder Alex Seropian.
