Looking up games on the app’s store is easy, with EA’s upcoming major titles front and centre when you open the app like the Dead Space remake, FIFA 23 and free-to-play battle royale Apex Legends. It takes up 447 MBs of storage and around 450MBs of RAM while idle. EA says the app is its fastest and lightest PC client to date. It took us a few minutes to set up a new account with the longest time spent waiting for EA to send us a verification code. It seems to be built on similar technology to Origin, but unlike Origin’s tedious signup and login experience, the new app is truthfully more streamlined.

Well, we looked at the new app and it’s… Fine. The new app, simply called the EA app, was quietly launched on the 7th of October and is designed to address “the limitations of in a quickly evolving entertainment landscape,” according to a blog post by the company.ĮA seems incredibly thrilled about the new app, saying it is “the best possible place for you to experience EA’s incredible games, services and content.”

We tried the app and found that it has few standout features to what already exists in the market.Īfter a decade of mediocrity, EA’s Origin platform for PC has been done away with and replaced by a sleeker, more streamlined offering.

The new app is more streamlined and lighter compared to its predecessor.

EA has launched a new desktop app to replace Origin.

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