The gaming community in EA FC has highly praised the Fire vs Ice promo. This is due to the wide range of unique cards available to players all over the world. This includes the legends who were icons during their prime in the sport. But now that that promo is over there have been some amazing cards that have been released in EA FC. Some of them are quite overpowered in a given position. Within this article, we will be taking a look at the top 5 GKs in EA FC in 2024.

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Top 5 GKs in EA FC

5) Marc-André Ter Stegen Gold Rare

The German professional footballer, Marc-André Ter Stegen, is a La Liga club goalkeeper who plays for Barcelona and the German national team. He is considered to be one of the world's best goalkeepers due to his exceptional reflexes, passing, and ball-playing skills. Ter Stegen's ability to keep clean sheets earned him the nickname “the Berlin Wall”.

Since his arrival at Barcelona in 2003, he has won 5 La Liga titles, 4 Copa del Rey and 1 Champions League. He has also won the Zamora Trophy, which is given to the best La Liga goalkeeper, a record-breaking 5 times.

Marc-André Ter Stegen Gold Rare is 89 rated. He also has a special In Form card in EA FC that is 90 rated. Below are some of his face card stats:

• Diving 86
• Handling 85
• Kicking 89
• Reflexes 91
• Speed 47
• Positioning 86

He has 4-star weak foot and 1-star skill moves with Med/Med work rates.  He does not have a real face in-game but he stands at 6'2" tall. Currently, his card is valued at 33,000 coins in EA FC. His In form special card is available at 90,000 coins.

4) Iker Casillas Icon Card

Iker Casillas is a Spanish professional football player and current football commentator. He is well-known for his incredible saves and is widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers ever.

He started his professional career with Real Madrid, playing 16 years in the club's first team. Casillas is the club's record appearance maker with 725 games in all competitions. After leaving Real Madrid in 2015, Casillas moved to FC Porto and played for the club for four years until his retirement in 2019. He was a member of the Spain national team, playing in the 2008 and 2012 European Championships and the 2010 World Cup.

Iker Casillas Icon Card is 90 rated. He also has a special Thunderstruck Icon card in EA FC that is 92 rated. Below are some of his face card stats:

• Diving 90
• Handling 88
• Kicking 84
• Reflexes 93
• Speed 59
• Positioning 88

He has 3 star weak foot and 1-star skill moves with Med/Med work rates.  He does not have a real face in-game but he stands at 6'1" tall. Currently, his card is valued at 133,000 coins in EA FC. His Thunderstruck Icon card is available for 360,000 coins.

3) Thibaut Courtois

Thibaut Courtois is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a keeper for both Real Madrid and Belgium. He is considered to be one of the world's best goalkeepers, renowned for his outstanding reflexes, flying saves, and strong presence in front of goal.

He has won two Premier League championships with Chelsea, as well as one FA Cup and one League Cup with the club. In 2018, Courtois joined Real Madrid, where he has since won two La Liga championships and an Intercontinental Cup.

He was at the forefront of Belgium's success at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, where he was instrumental in the team's third-place finish in the tournament. He was also named in Belgium's Golden Glove winners. Thibaut Courtois Rare Gold Card is 90 rated. He also has a special Winter Wildcard card in EA FC that is 91 rated. Below are some of his face card stats:

• Diving 85
• Handling 89
• Kicking 76
• Reflexes 93
• Speed 46
• Positioning 90

He has 3 star weak foot and 1-star skill moves with Med/Med work rates.  He does not have a real face in-game but he stands at 6'6" tall. Currently, his card is valued at 133,000 coins in EA FC. Thibaut Courtois Winter Wildcard card is currently available for 86,500 coins.

2) Lev Yashin ICON Card

Lev Yashin is a former Soviet professional footballer who is considered to be one of the best goalkeepers of all time. He spent his entire career at Dynamo Moscow, winning 5 Soviet championships and 3 Soviet Cups. He also played 78 times for the Soviet Union, winning the 1960 European Championship and reaching the 1964 tournament final.

Yashin was one of the first to regularly leave the line to control his area, which earned him the nickname “The Black Spider” due to his all-black jersey and ability to seemingly stop every shot. In 1963, he became the only goalkeeper to win the European Footballer's Player of the Year award. In 2000, he was honored by FIFA as Goalkeeper of the Century. Lev Yashin Icon Card is 92 rated. Below are some of his face card stats:

• Diving 93
• Handling 89
• Kicking 75
• Reflexes 94
• Speed 60
• Positioning 93

He has 3 star weak foot and 1-star skill moves with Med/Med work rates.  He does not have a real face in-game but he stands at 6'2" tall. Currently, his card is valued at 385,000 coins in EA FC. 

1) Edwin van der Sar ICON Card

Netherlands international Edwin van der Sar (born October 29, 1970) is a former professional football player and current football executive. He is considered to be one of the best goalkeepers of all time and has achieved great success throughout his professional career. Van der Sar started his professional career with Ajax in 1990, forming part of the club’s golden generation and playing a key role in Ajax’s 1995 UEFA Champions League triumph.

In 2005, he moved to Manchester United, where he went on to win another Champions League title in 2008 and establish himself as one of the Premier League’s most successful goalkeepers. He is the longest-serving keeper for the Netherlands and is widely regarded as a leader on and off the field. In EA FC he has been one of the most used GK in the game. He has been used in 839,533 games in EA FC.

Edwin Van Der Sar's ICON Card is 88rated. He also has a special Thunderstruck Icon card in EA FC that is 90 rated. Below are some of his face card stats:

• Diving 84
• Handling 87
• Kicking 79
• Reflexes 86
• Speed 39
• Positioning 92

He has 3 star weak foot and 1-star skill moves with Med/Med work rates.  He does not have a real face in-game but he stands at 6'6" tall. Currently, his card is valued at 270,000 coins in EA FC. His Thunderstruck Icon card is available for 490,000 coins.

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GTA Online players have waited for a long time for two things particularly: some zombies to take down and an official return to GTA 5’s starting area. Now since both promises have been fulfilled in the new Ludendorff Cemetery Survival mode, which was released on October 10, hundreds of thousands of players can’t wait to play it.

Rockstar Games announced the new mode recently, confirming that players would finally be able to return to North Yankton, which users might remember as the snow-covered town from the game’s opening where Trevor and Michael are involved in a failed robbery attempt, ruining their relationship for years.

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GTA Online Fans Get What They Wanted For A Long Time

GTA Online players weren’t actually able to explore the location without brute forcing their way in via glitches for several years, since it’s not connected to the open-world gamin’s main area, so this marks the first instance people were able to freely go to North Yankton without any workarounds. 

North Yankton plus zombies seem to have been a big enough deal to a attract 400,000 GTA Online players to quickly jump into the mode within its first 24 hours, as per GTAO Stats. That number seems to have passed the one million mark in the past few days.

Online rumors suggested that GTA 6 had already been internally delayed to 2026, but as per a former Rockstar Games lead, the studio doesn’t know whether the game will require more time in the oven until next summer.

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Rockstar Games Not Sure About GTA 6 Launch In 2025

Former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij has chimed in on the discourse to remind folks that "the decision to delay GTA 4 was made four months or so before the original release date. Any further and it's hard to make the call." The much-anticipated game has another year in prediction, so Vermeij says that Rockstar "is probably not in a position to determine whether they will hit 2025 until May-ish."

Vermeij continued explaining that a delay is certainly on the table, however. Hype for GTA 6 has been building for over a decade at this point - and everyone from industry analysts, Xbox executives, and Take-Two’s CEO reckon the game could be a hit unlike any other - so the studio will likely choose to delay it until it’s ready for launch, rather than rush toward an undercooked and doomed to-be-controversial launch.

"GTA 6 will sell for 10+ years and there is no competition to worry about," Vermeij continues. "They are not going to release the game until they're 100% happy with it. No matter what it said in the trailer. I have no inside info. Didn't talk to anyone."

Microsoft is planning to support the streaming of Xbox game libraries in November. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans told The Verge that the company is prepping to test the ability to stream games that users own that are not part of the existing Xbox Game Pass library.

As part of a long-running project called Project Lapland inside of Microsoft, the software giant has been readying its Xbox Cloud Gaming servers to be able to support streaming thousands of games.

The Xbox Cloud Gaming expansion comes in the same month Microsoft plans to allow game purchases in its Xbox mobile app for Android in the US. This became possible for Microsoft thanks to a court ruling earlier this week that forced Google to stop requiring Google Play Billing for apps in the Play Store.

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Users Can Buy Games On Android And Play On Xbox

Xbox president Sarah Bond revealed that “starting in November, players will be able to play and purchase Xbox games directly from the Xbox App on Android.” Once Microsoft’s work to allow a full game library on Xbox Cloud Gaming is complete, users will be able to purchase an Xbox game on Android and immediately stream it to their device.

Project xCloud was said to launch with game library streaming in 2020. Microsoft then announced it would support its game library on Xbox Cloud Gaming in 2022, but it never launched that year. While thousands of games will be available through Xbox Cloud Gaming, some publishers could hold certain games back due to licensing requirements.

Microsoft is also working on a browser-based Xbox mobile store that was originally planned to launch in July. The store will initially include in-game items but will grow to cover first-party games eventually. In August, Microsoft said that testing has kicked off on the web-based mobile store and that “work is progressing well and we will have more to share in the future.”

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Microsoft Lays Off 650 Employees From Its Xbox Division

In a new wave of job cuts, Microsoft has announced the layoff of 650 employees from its Xbox division, marking the second major workforce reduction of the year within its gaming arm. The job cuts follow a previous workforce reduction of approximately 1900 positions in January this year.

As per the company, these layoffs are part of broader restructuring efforts aimed at streamlining its gaming operations, particularly after its takeover of Activision Blizzard. The news about the recent layoffs was brought to light for employees through an internal memo from Microsoft’s gaming chief, Phil Spencer.

According to the memo, the latest wave of job cuts will predominantly affect corporate and support roles within the company’s gaming division. Spencer ensured that no games, devices, or experiences were being canceled, and no studios would be closed after the layoffs.

After years of wait, Rockstar Games has officially announced the arrival of Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare DLC, for PC, as it is set to launch on October 29, 2024.

The PC version of the famous open-world title will arrive with many specific features, including native 4K resolution, Ultrawide and Super Ultrawide monitor support, and much more. Aside from that, PC gamers can also expect unlocked framerates for a much smoother experience in current-gen hardware.

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Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare DLC Ready to Make its Way Into PC This Month

Released in 2010, Red Dead Redemption quickly became a classic title for gamers to enjoy on console. While the original game never saw a release on PC, the sequel received a Windows release two years after its launch in November 2019. However, fans kept asking for the original title's release on PC. After 14 years, Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare DLC are finally arriving on PC with many features for gamers to enjoy. One can capture John Marston's beloved journey on PC, with stunning visuals filled with details. Moreover, the iconic zombie-horror companion story, Undead Nightmare will also be available on launch.

Rockstar Games has stated that the new version adds many PC-specific enhancements to the title, including 4k resolution at up to 144hz compatible hardware, monitor support for Ultrawide 21:9 and Super Ultrawide 32:9, HDR10 support, and full keyboard and mouse functionality. The title also comes with NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 and AMD FSR 3.0 upscaling technologies. One can use DLSS Frame Generation, adjustable draw distances, shadow quality settings, and many more features to tweak the game's experience up to their desire.

The PC version of Red Dead Redemption will undoubtedly deliver a massive visual upgrade over the console version from last to last gen. Moreover, the added features from Rockstar promise a much smoother, and optimized experience for PC users. The PC version of the title was leaked earlier this year, through leaked codes from the official Rockstar page, however, they did not mention any release window at the time. Fans were still expecting an announcement for their beloved title on PC. With Rockstar officially announcing a PC version, fans are excited to get their hands on Red Dead Redemption once again. 

Bullet Echo India is back with another event, which will give the players new skins. The Octoberfest event will give the players Legendary and Epic Hero Skins each day till October 13, 2024. This will help you gain skins for your heroes. After you have completed a few daily missions and collected a few resources each day, you will be able to get skins. 

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All Bullet Echo India’s Oktoberfest Event Skins

The event has already started and each day skins will be given to the players. At the beginning of the month, Krafton had made Legendary Midnight Lynx, General Vi (Legendary), and Winter Leviathan (Epic), followed by Beast Dragoon (Legendary) and Smuggler Arnie (Epic) available to the players 

However, the skins that are most awaited are not available during the event. Here they are: 

• October 7: Yukata Angel (Epic)
• October 8: Minotaur Ramsay (Legendary)
• October 9: Stray Mirage (Epic)
• October 10: Infected Ghost (Epic)
• October 11: Maid Sparkle (Epic)
• October 12: Lava Cyclops (Epic)
• October 13: Orc Bastion (Epic)

If you have missed the skins by any chance, you will be able to get them from the shop by spending a few bucks. 

Bullet Echo India's Partnerships

Earlier in the year, Krafton partnered with a leading content creation group, S8UL, to promote the game. To acquaint the audience with the features of the game, S8UL content creators like Mortal, Scout, Regaltos, Snax, JokerKiHaveli, PayalGaming, KaashPlays, and others will be making content related to the game. Talking about the collaboration, Lokesh 'Goldy' Jain, Co-owner of S8UL said: 

We are delighted to partner with KRAFTON for the launch of Bullet Echo India, as this gives us another chance to bring new & enriching gaming experience to the community. With KRAFTON's expertise and our deep understanding of the Indian gaming community, we are confident that Bullet Echo India will excite players across the country. I also look forward to it opening new avenues for esports athletes trying to make a mark in the competitive landscape.

Talking about the collaboration, Anuj Sahani, India Publishing Advisor and Head of KRAFTON India Incubator Programme said: 

We are excited to join forces with S8UL for our Bullet Echo India. S8UL's innovative approach has consistently set them apart, and their synergy is perfectly aligned with KRAFTON to deliver an unparalleled gaming experience that fans have been eagerly anticipating.

As someone who grew up playing games like Grim Fandango on repeat, Detective Doston looked exactly the sort of game I've been looking to play. Detective Doston's preview build scratched that little Lovo Motive-esque itch for me that very few games have been able to and while it feels a tiny bit similar to Loco Motive, it has enough character and creative flair to be its own thing. Masala Games' commitment to a solid, unique art style endemic to India, derived from the Patan Patola silk weaving technique, is what did it for me. The game's fantastic atmosphere, mood, and light-hearted jovialness are exactly the sort of palette cleanser you need from the deeply cynical AAA space we find ourselves in today.

The game, while a celebration of India and its vibrant cultures, is also extremely witty and sharp in its commentary - whether it be the deep-set political warfare of the neighbourhood kitty parties or the extreme pettiness of your neighbours to haunt you with high-precision bird strikes.

Detective Doston's attention to detail cannot be looked over as it weaves together crucial elements of Indian cityscapes with authentic storefronts, street signs, and of course, unruly litterers you can put in place by throwing their garbage back at them. The game is packed with excruciating attention to detail that faithfully recreates and enhances the summery vibes of Detective Doston. The game, while a celebration of India and its vibrant cultures, is also extremely witty and sharp in its commentary - whether it be the deep-set political warfare of the neighbourhood kitty parties or the extreme pettiness of your neighbours to haunt you with high-precision bird strikes. Detective Doston is one of my favourite games I've played from an Indian developer this year and I cannot wait for the full release. 

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Detective Doston: The Scourge of Littering Underworld

Detective Doston's gameplay is pretty straightforward and surprisingly non-linear with the way it uses simple and easy-to-grasp gameplay mechanics to let players explore the world at their own pace, pick up optional side quests and immerse themselves in the game world. Doston is a fairly mobile character, able to jump, sprint, and climb onto ledges as if he were a direct descendant of Ezio Auditore. The platforming, while basic, serves its purpose well and does enough to keep things mechanically interesting. The real game, however, is the actual 'detecting' you'll be doing. 

 Gathering clues, while not linear in this preview build, could be further expanded in the full release - giving players agency in the kind of detective they want Doston to be. 

This means gathering clues by either talking to NPCs, eavesdropping or finding clues in the environment and then placing those clues on your Evidence Board in a way that makes sense. Think Alan Wake II's Mind Palace Evidence Board but significantly more cheery and exponentially more Indian. Definitely more Indian. While this isn't exactly rocket science, it asks the players to pay attention to NPC dialog carefully and sus out their motivations. Gathering clues, while not linear in this preview build, could be further expanded in the full release - giving players agency in the kind of detective they want Doston to be. 

The real joy of the game, for me, came through the non-linear exploration which lets you talk to different NPCs and pick up side quests.

In the preview build, gathering clues usually means disguising yourself as another NPC, which will give you access to the area or certain NPC dialogue. The 'Disguise' mechanic is also quite dandy as each Disguise grants Doston with an additional ability. These abilities will help you in your clue-gathering endavors or simply make NPCs dance if you wish. I did. Several times. While the core gameplay loop was more than enough to sustain my interest in the game, its the meandering about the game world that made me come back to Detective Doston even after I had finished the 2 cases in the preview build (which took me about 30 minutes). 

The real joy of the game, for me, came through the non-linear exploration which lets you talk to different NPCs and pick up side quests. While these aren't super detailed, expansive, story-driven gameplay sections - they never failed to get a chuckle out of me. Overall, Detective Doston is a delightfully, authentically Indian game that knows exactly what it is and excels in immersing the player in the game world. I will be looking forward to the full release and throw litter back at unruly citizens, because that's just the kind of person I am.