FIFA 19 will include pack odds disclosures, EA has confirmed to Eurogamer.
Speaking to our reporter Robert Purchese at the Gamelab conference in Spain, EA Sports vice president and COO Daryl Holt said FIFA Ultimate Team Packs will show odds from FIFA 19 on.
Here's what Holt told us:

It's launch morning for The Crew 2, and I've logged in to do a final network test. The always-online racing game's predecessor on release, so I want to see if the new game is holding up. It's been stable playing with early access players this week, but would the influx of new people cause problems? So far, all is well (unless you're .) Players are popping up nearby, rather than halfway across the map as they have done during the sparsely populated early access period. They crawl their Lamborghinis up to my stationary 1993 Porsche and rev in wordless invitation to a drag race. They don't need to ask twice and we roar off up the Pacific coast road out of Malibu.
It's a fun moment, but then we just peel off and go our separate ways, because there is hardly anything for us to do together in this game.
The Crew was a scrappy but ultimately lovable open-world racing game with unrealised massively multiplayer aspirations. It was made by Lyon studio Ivory Tower, itself formed by veterans of Eden Studios, makers of the Test Drive Unlimited games, which were scrappy but ultimately lovable open-world racing games with unrealised massively multiplayer aspirations. Things have changed, a little: The Crew 2 doesn't feel so scrappy. It is almost polished (though my PS4 version crashed three times during review). But those aspirations are still unrealised, and the game is underdeveloped in other areas than its network code and bug fixes. There's a sense that it will be much better in six months to a year's time than it is at launch - just like The Crew was. Plus ça change.

Nearly five years on, Microsoft has finally gotten its Halo TV series greenlit and into production.
Cable network Showtime has ordered 10 episodes of the show, which it is calling its "most ambitious series ever".
reports the show's blurb as "an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant. Halo will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future".

July's Xbox Games with Gold offering is topped by Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction and Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown - both Xbox 360 games.
Conviction is the penultimate entry in the Splinter Cell series (to date, anyway), originally released in 2010. It's decent fun - far from the height of the series, but probably not its low watermark, either (that would be Blacklist, which arrived in 2013).
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, meanwhile, is the latest version of Sega's fighting game series, released in 2012.

Helsinki's provided its fair share of Finnish classics over the years - from Resogun to Trials through Alan Wake and Angry Birds - but here's one of a different vintage; a game that draws upon a Finnish classic from the 19th century. Kalavela is an epic that's informed much of Finland's national identity, drawing upon Finnish folklore (and proving influential to Tolkien as he built his own mythology) - and all this without a voxel in sight.
It's ripe for returning to, really, which is exactly what upstart Helsinki developer Action Squad - a team who draws experience from seemingly every studio in the area, with Remedy, Rovio, Supercell and RedLynx all making appearances on the various CVs - is doing with Iron Danger, a tactical turn-based adventure with a few neat twists of its own. You're Kipuna, an everyday villager who is granted superpowers that place her in the middle of an epic battle for the city of Kalevala.
It's something of a passion project for a team led by Sami Timonen, formerly of Rovio and Supercell, and someone who's been pushing to establish this new IP built upon the foundations of Finnish folklore through a film, comic books and, of course, a game. To help on that end, Action Squad has recruited a crack team of veterans - many of them making the leap from mobile to Iron Danger's preferred platforms of PC and console. Given the astronomical figures that games such as Supercell's Clash Royale earn, what inspired the move back to a more traditional model?

On Sonic the Hedgehog's 27th birthday (that big 3-0 is fast approaching!), Sega has detailed Team Rose for Team Sonic Racing.
The announcement was made during an event to celebrate Sonic's birthday (you can watch it in the video below).
Team Rose is made up of Amy Rose, Chao and Big the Cat. Yep, Big the Cat, the large, anthropomorphic purple cat who made his name in the Sonic Adventure series, is in Team Sonic Racing. As if there was any doubt.

This week, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds got its first ever Event Pass. The £7.49 DLC is, clearly, inspired by Fortnite's hugely-successful Battle Pass, and lets players unlock premium loot, including themed cosmetics and items. It also lets you take on exclusive challenges and gain experience points as you play.
While PUBG's Event Pass sounds like a decent addition to the game - and indeed it has freshened up the battle royale experience for many players - it has some problems, which the game's rabid fanbase has been quick to pick up on.
This has led to a raft of comments from the PUBG developer, PUBG Corp., which has clarified the Event Pass is something of an experiment, and shown to be quick to react to feedback.

Well, it's the weekend, folks. You know as well as I do that a weekend means it's time for yet another roundup of the very best gaming deals this week has had to offer. It also means I'm going to spend a couple more hours trying to continue my first playthrough of Dark Souls 2, which, let me tell you - is an odd game to come to after just finishing Dark Souls Remastered. That said, GOG's recent addition of the last of the original Monkey Island games may make for an ideal distraction, given that three out of four of those games are essentially flawless.
Anyway, onto the deals! As usual, we've got deals that'll work in the UK, deals that'll work in the US and some deals that will work in both the UK and US, as well as presumably many other places. Let's get started.
Worlds Adrift is a survival-y, build-y, floaty, flying, massively multiplayer type of game that's hit some headlines relatively recently. The folks from Green Man Gaming joined forces with our sister-site Jelly Deals to offer 40 copies of the game. To be in with a chance of winning a copy, you can enter on the link below.

The NHS is set to fund an internet addiction centre - with a focus on gaming disorders.
According to , the Central and North West London NHS foundation trust is behind the Centre for Internet Disorders, which will initially focus on gaming addiction. The idea is it will offer treatment and advice to families as well as conduct research.
after it emerged "gaming disorder" could become a proper medical condition - should a draft of the World Health Organisation's updated International Classification of Diseases manual be approved unamended roughly a year from now.

Two moments from EA's E3 2018 media briefing stuck with me long after I left the blazing heat of Los Angeles.
The first was EA's dramatic Champions League trophy reveal, up close and personal as it was for me as I sat in the tiny chairs squeezed into the Hollywood Palladium's mosh pit. It made me gasp. I knew an announcement about FIFA finally getting the Champions League after years of exclusivity on PES was coming (thanks, ). But as a football fan, seeing the actual Champions League trophy within touching distance had the hairs on the back of my neck doing a merry dance.
The second was EA boss Andrew Wilson's closing remarks, which I've struggled to shake because, well, I'm not going to pull any punches here - they stank of hypocrisy.

Updated story (June 14th): Though Trials Rising was confirmed for Nintendo Switch during Ubisoft's E3 press conference, the game's upcoming closed beta won't be coming to the platform, an Ubisoft spokesperson has confirmed to Eurogamer.
Instead, we can expect it on PS4, Xbox One and PC, with now available.
There's no word on what the closed beta will feature, but Ubisoft mentioned during the conference it will arrive later this year.

DayZ and Arma studio Bohemia has announced a new Scandinavian post-nuclear-war survival game for Xbox One called Vigor. It's coming to Xbox Game Preview this summer. Whether it will land on other platforms we don't yet know.
Vigor was announced in a brief, cinematic trailer during an Inside Xbox broadcast at E3. In the trailer, survivors tiptoe through a tunnelled road, sifting through wreckage, before tension spikes as another survivor - possibly hostile - is seen.
There's no gameplay but the characters wear a jumbled assortment of clothing and wield guns appropriate to the game's 1990s timeline. There's been a nuclear war in Central Europe, and Norway, the game's setting, has become a cutthroat place to make a last stand.

Payday developer Overkill's The Walking Dead game was given a release date at E3 2018's PC Gaming Show.
It's coming November 8th in Europe and November 6th in North America, with pre-orders opening on June 12th.
We assume it'll be available on PS4 and Xbox One at the same time.

At its E3 showcase, Ubisoft announced that the Starter Edition of its melee-focussed multiplayer brawler For Honor, will be free on PC via Uplay from June 11th to June 18th.
The freebie heralds the announcement of a major new For Honor update, known as Marching Fire, that's due to arrive on October 16th. According to Ubisoft, Marching Fire is the game's "biggest and most ambitious update so far".
"After the great cataclysm that brought knights, vikings, and samurai to fight," the publisher explained, "civil war consumed China. Warriors of the Wu Lin factions fought each other but failed to establish order. Amid the chaos, four warriors of the Wu Lin now march west."

The least interesting thing about Assassin's Creed Odyssey is its October 2018 release date, but the timing of another massive game in the series just 12 months after Assassin's Creed Origins will generate headlines regardless. Origins' success - its brilliant new characters and reworked RPG-lite focus - is something of a double-edged sword: these changes reinvigorated the series, but by taking an extra year of time to bed them in Ubisoft reinforced the feeling each installment could offer the same leaps forward, if only the publisher leant on its biggest franchise a little less. It's against this backdrop Odyssey has been detailed and its release date confirmed - but I'm confident, after more than three hours of gameplay, this year's installment answers those immediate questions.
"We started discussing the setting and what we wanted to do even before we were finished with Syndicate," Odyssey's creative director Marc-Alexis Côté tells me. It's a couple of weeks before E3 and I'm speaking to Côté at an event in Paris, attended by numerous developers from Odyssey's lead studio, Ubisoft Quebec. This is the team behind the London-based Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the enjoyable 2015 entry which released while the future of the franchise post-Unity was being quietly reworked behind the scenes. "Together with the Origins team [at Ubisoft Montreal] we've been busy plotting the course of the franchise, from action adventure to a full-fledged RPG as something to happen over these two games," he continues. When introducing Odyssey, Côté boasts that it "completes the transition" of the franchise into a "full-scale open world RPG". Where the team behind Bayek focused on rebooting the series' combat, navigation and sense of space, Côté and co. have focused on improving the series' storytelling so you can "finally interact with history".
As in the full game, my demo - the same on offer this week here at E3 - begins with the choice of Alexios or Kassandra as a playable character. They are individuals - not male or female versions of the same person, or your own avatar - but you can expect the same script for them both. It's 431BC in Ancient Greece, 400 years before Assassin's Creed Origins. Sparta and Athens are at war, and it's been about 50 years since the Gerard Butler's King Leonidas fought the famous battle in the movie 300. Your player character is a forgotten descendant of Leonidas, kicked off a cliff at a young age for having done something which brought great shame on your family. 17 in-game years later and about the same number of hours into the game's story, the demo opens with you well on the path to becoming a mercenary of renown.

reemerged at E3 flaunting broadsides to go weak at the knees over.
We saw a really hearty chunk of gameplay at Ubisoft's E3 conference, and the game looked considerably more spectacular than this time last year at it's last outing. Ships were hulking, ornate galleons, worn by the weather and battle, as were the sailors on board it. And when the cannons roared! There was billowing smoke and thundering, fiery, splintering explosion.
The demo began in the hub island where your character starts each adventure - a mechanic very similar to Rare's Sea of Thieves. But in Skull and Bones you customise many more aspects of your ship, swapping cannon, ship wheels and all kinds of equipment, which has a statistical effect on your ship's capabilities. And unlike in Sea of Thieves, where you and your friends control a boat, in Skull and Bones the boats are controlled by one player and crewed by AI. Teaming up involves other boats joining the fray, which they can - Skull and Bones is a shared-world game. To invite another player to the battle you have to see them from your crow's nest, it looks like.

The Crew 2, Ubisoft's open-world multi-vehicle racing game, will have an open beta next week, just ahead of its 29th June launch.
The beta goes live on 21st June, on PS4, Xbox One and PC - and you can preload it now.
The Crew 2 has a motorsports theme and introduces powerboats and stunt planes alongside cars and bikes. The first game was a bit of an underrated gem with an incredible coast-to-coast map of the continental US, which is back for this sequel. The beta's got to be worth a look.

Ubisoft has announced a release date for its weird and charming toys-to-life game Starlink: Battle for Atlas. The game will be landing on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on 16th of October, and Switch players will be able to play with Fox McCloud through the entire campaign including missions exclusive to Fox as add-on content.
Starlink: Battle for Atlas is a space dogfighting and exploration game with a colourful art style that calls to mind No Man's Sky. The gimmick is that you can tinker with your in-game spacecraft by messing around with little models that clip onto the controllers. It looks wonderfully zany and the sort of thing that only Ubisoft would do these days.
This is not the first Nintendo crossover Ubisoft has enjoyed in recent years: at last year's E3 press conference, Shigeru Miyamoto came on-stage to help explain Mario + Rabbids. This year, he was given a model Arwing and invited backstage to meet the Starlink development team.

Ubisoft's previously-leaked Assassin's Creed Odyssey will launch this 5th October.
Set in Ancient Greece, developed by Assassin's Creed Syndicate's Ubisoft Quebec, the game is now fully RPG. It's set on land and on sea, 400 years before Assassin's Creed Origins, during the Peloponnesian War.
You can play as Alexios, or Kassandra, descendants of Leonidas in a story with branching narrative for the first time.

Ubisoft has revealed new details for The Division 2 at its E3 press conference.
Taking the battle to Washington DC, the MMO sequel promises a story-based campaign in which the player's actions have an impact on the civilians of the city.
Once the campaign is finished, however, players will choose a new progression path by picking one of three specialisations, each of which begin with the choosing of a signature weapon. From there, things flow outwards with additional unlockable weapons and skills, with the aim of creating personal playstyles that synergise with other players.