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Kotaku's Owen Good checks in with the latest on the unknown status that defines EA Sports MMA these days. He spoke with EA Sports’ senior vice president of worldwide development Andrew Wilson about the franchise, as well as EA's feelings about being involved in the fighting genre.

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UFC president Dana White has also publicly rebuked EA Sports and said his operation would never do business with it. (Indeed, THQ has the exclusive license on UFC games). With Strikeforce under UFC, an EA Sports MMA title loses not only the second-place (and a distant second) brand in MMA promotions, its ability to include real licensed fighters from that series becomes murkier. Certainly neither White nor the UFC would approve of any new deals.

Source - EA Sports Won’t Say MMA’s Dead, but Won’t Say It’s Getting a Sequel, Either (Kotaku)