Report: EA Paying $588 Million For The Rights To The English Premier League

Programming and gameplay be damned, sports games live and die on their licensing. It’s why Madden was able to crush NFL_2K_, and it’s why EA’s _FIFA (_now known as EA Sports FC)has been able to grind Konami’s PES into the dust. Not because they’re better games, but because they paid to be the only games to feature the…