Each week, we get a new Team Of The Week (TOTW) in the ever-changing world of EA FC. The TOTW is a Promo where you can get in-form cards for players who played well in last week’s real-life matches. 
 

This week, EA FC TOTW 17 has a lot of favorites from the football world. However, because there aren’t many TOTW cards available in the game, their prices are skyrocketing. In this article, we’ll be looking at 5 cards of this week’s TOTW that are worth your hard-earned cash in EA FC.

Top 5 Players To Try from TOTW 17 in EA FC

5 Iván Martín Núñez (CM/RM/CAM)

Iván Martin is a Spanish international football player who plays for La Liga team Girona on loan. Martin joined Girona from Deportivo La Coruna in 2020 and established himself as one of the most important players in the club's history. He helped Girona win La Liga promotion in 2022 and has been a regular starter ever since.

Martin made his international debut for Spain in March 2023 against Albania at the age of 23. Iván Martín Núñez inform is an 86-rated overall card. This is a +12 overall increase when compared to his silver rare card in the game. Take a look at his face card stats he has:

Pace 86
Shooting 85
Passing 87
Dribbling 90
Defending 72
Physicality 70

He has a 4-star weak foot and 4-star skill moves with High/Low work rates. He is 5’10” with a Technical playstyle plus 84 stamina. Currently, his card is valued at 36,000 coins on the EA FC FUT market.

4 Lautaro Martínez ( ST/CF)

Lautaro Martínez is a professional footballer who plays as a striker (or second striker) for Italian Serie A club Internacional, under whom he serves as captain and the Argentine national team. Lautaro is considered to be one of the world's best strikers, renowned for his work-rate, box-to-box play, link-up play, and finish. In 2022, he helped Argentina to win the World Cup in Qatar. His inform card is 89 rated which is the same rating as his older POTM card that launched in EA FC. If we take a look at his face card stats he has:

Pace 83
Shooting 90
Passing 73
Dribbling 88
Defending 50
Physicality 87

Lautaro Martínez has 4-star weak foot and 4-star skill moves with High/medium work rates. This is ideal for a secondary striker who can also play as a false 9. He stands at 5’9” tall with 95 jumping and 90 heading accuracy in EA FC. Currently, his card is valued at 65,000 coins in the EA FC FUT market.

3 Frenkie de Jong CM

Netherlands international Frenkie de Jong is a professional footballer who plays as a central defensive midfielder for Barcelona in La Liga and the Netherlands national football team. De Frenkie Jong is well-known for his eye for goal, accurate passes, dribbling, and technical ability, as well as his strong defensive play and goal-scoring record.

He has also represented the Netherlands at several youth levels. Frenkie De Jong was a key player in helping the Netherlands to the runner-up position at UEFA Nations League 2019. He is well-regarded for his excellent game-reading skills and his ability to control the flow of play in the midfield. Frenkie de Jong's inform card is 88 rated which is an +1 overall boost from his base gold rare card. Taking a look at his face card stats, they are the following

Pace 83
Shooting 70
Passing 87
Dribbling 88
Defending 79
Physicality 80

He has 3-star weak foot and 4-star skill moves with High/Medium work rates. He stands at 5’11” with the overpowered trivela playstyle plus as well as 91 stamina. Currently, his card is valued at 180,000 coins in the EA FC FUT Market.

2 Cengiz Ünder (RM/CF/RW)

Turkish professional footballer Cengiz Ünder is a versatile player who plays on the right wing and is known for his pace, dribbling ability, and creativity. He started his professional career with the Altinordu club in 2016 before moving to AS Roma at a young age in 2017. After a brief stint in Italy and England, he returned to the country in 2023 and currently plays for Fenerbahce.

Cengiz Ünder has represented Turkey at various youth levels and made his senior international debut for the country in 2016. On the right flank, Cengiz Ünder is known for his speed and trickery. He has excellent dribbling ability and close control, allowing him to take on opposition players with ease. Cengiz's pace, dribbling, and creative ability make him a valuable player for any team. Cengiz Ünder inform card is 84 rated which is a +6 overall boost from his base common gold card in the game. Having a look at his in-game stats, he has the following stats:

Pace 86
Shooting 83
Passing 84
Dribbling 87
Defending 45
Physicality 58

He has 4-star weak foot and 4-star skill moves with Med/Med work rates. He is just 5’8” tall with 88 balance and 86 agility. Players can also use this inform card in the cut inside or finisher Evolutions in EA FC. Currently, his card is valued at 31,500 on the EA FC FUT market.

1 Theo Hernández ( CB/LB/LWB/LM)

Theo Hernandez is a French professional footballer who plays as a left-back for the Italian Serie A club AC Milan and the French national football team. He is well-known for his excellent dribbling, speed, and goal-scoring capabilities, making him one of the best full-backs in the world.

The 26-year-old started his senior career with the reserves of Atletico Madrid in Spain in 2015. The following year, he was signed by the city rivals Real Madrid. Two years later, he joined AC Milan in 2019. Since then, he has been a regular player for the club, helping them to win the Serie A championship in 2022. His new in-form card is 87 rated which is a plus 2 overall increase when compared to his base rare gold card. Some of his key stats are as follows:

Pace 95
Shooting 73
Passing 80
Dribbling 83
Defending 82
Physicality 86

As a left-back, Theo can also be used as an attacker when needed and a defensive full-back when needed. With 92 jumping, 92 stamina, and 94 acceleration, it is almost impossible for an attacker to out-jump or out-pace him. Currently, his EA FC value is 690,000 coins.

If we look at the upcoming slate of zombie games, arguably the most hotly-anticipated is State of Decay 3. Fans have been patiently waiting for Undead Labs’ ambitious third entry in the series, but as the months pass by, patience is becoming thinner.

Now is the time for Undead to put everything it has behind its next game, but unfortunately, that also marks the end of the line for its beloved State of Decay 2, which today gets its last ever update.

Thankfully, this 38th and final patch will see the State of Decay 2 go out in style. This substantial update essentially sets it up for the future and gets it in the best possible shape with quality-of-life improvements, balancing changes, adjustments to event rewards, and some bug fixes.

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What Does Update 38 Bring To The Game

One of the biggest changes in Update 38 is the addition of community inventories. From the community screen, users will now be able to access the stashes of all other survivors in their base. This makes swapping, organizing, and storing gear so much easier.

For people trying their hands at the State of Decay 2, they also need to factor in a new momentum mechanic that will slow their vehicle if they drive through water. While 4x4s will be affected less by the water resistance, it is an added splash of realism that players will need to watch out for.

Apart from the gameplay changes, Undead Labs has not only added some brand-new clothing items but it has also generously unvaulted any past time-gated content. It mostly has seasonal gear for events like Halloween and Christmas. Several weapons and vehicles have also been added to the world spawn pool.

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Will the State Of Decay 2 Go Offline?

Update 38 is currently live in the State of Decay 2. Users will be able to check out every single change in the full set of patch notes here. Although this is the last update for the game, Undead Labs has already assured it won’t be taken offline.

While State of Decay 2 is still worth your time, the home stretch of the agonizing wait for the State of Decay 3 release date now starts. For players suffering from State of Decay fatigue, there are several other zombie games to try out for now.

The team responsible for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has been disbanded, as per a report from French media outlet Origami. In a video posted, Origami reports that the team behind The Lost Crown was disbanded despite seemingly positive reports from developers on their experiences working on the game.

Per a tweet by Gauthier Andres: "I've heard and read 'It was the best game production in my entire life' three or four times in a single weekend while getting information on the game's development. One after the other I was told it was seen as a beacon of hope to create a safe space for people that were burnt out by Beyond Good & Evil 2. The team has been disbanded by Ubisoft."

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Now Sequel For Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown

The video also states that the game’s fate was effectively decided just a few weeks after its release. The core game development team reportedly fought to get a sequel or at least more expansion beyond the single “Mask of Darkness” expansion, but Ubisoft allegedly needed more help on other projects that had better sales potential.

According to the report, The Lost Crown did not meet the company’s expectations, and executives expressed concerns that a sequel would cannibalize long-term sales of the first game. The game was developed at Ubisoft Montpellier, which employs hundreds of people and was last known to be working on the infinitely-in-limbo Beyond Good and Evil 2.

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The Team Has Shifted Focus To Other Games

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Senior Producer Abdelhak Elguess sent the following statement to IGN, "I'm extremely proud of our team's work and passion at Ubisoft Montpellier to create a game that resonated with players and critics alike, and I am confident in its long-term success. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is now at the end of its post-launch roadmap with three free content updates and one DLC that was released in September.”

"We are now focusing on making the game available to more players: it was recently launched on Steam, and will be available on Mac by this winter. Most of the team members who worked on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown have shifted to other projects that will benefit from their expertise. We know players have a love for this brand and Ubisoft is excited to bring more Prince of Persia experiences in the future." 

The doors on The Wolf Among Us 2 haven’t been closed yet, despite rumors suggesting otherwise. Recently, a whistleblower claimed development of The Wolf Among Us 2 was in peril, and the team at Telltale was at a "critical point where they might have no choice but to shelve it."

In a statement shared with Eurogamer, Telltale has ensured that work on the game continues. "As a rule, we don't comment on rumors and unsubstantiated Reddit threads," a Telltale PR told us. "But development on The Wolf Among Us 2 continues and we're excited to share more about the game with Telltale fans and our community when the time is right."

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When Is The Wolf Among Us 2 Coming?

The Wolf Among Us 2, will be set in the world of Bill Willingham’s Fables comics - was originally announced back in 2017, but development was stopped when Telltale Games faced significant lay-off and was shuttered in 2018.

It seemed like the end for the sequel; however, a little less than a year later, it was announced Telltale was being resurrected under new management - a surprise development that would eventually see The Wolf Among Us 2 re-announced, with the project kicking off in pre-production.

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 To Launch On January 2025 For PC

With the first anniversary of Spider-Man 2’s PS5 launch just a few days away, developer Insomniac has announced the acclaimed superhero sequel will launch for PC on 30th January next year. Insomniacs isn’t ready to make platform-specific enhancements just yet, but it has confirmed Spider-Man 2’s PC port will come with all the extra content released through the game's various free post-launch updates. 

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 comes to PC in two versions. One will be the standard variant, which comes with all the above, plus a pricier Digital Deluxe Edition. The latter packs everything that the standard edition offers, alongside ten exclusive suits - five for Peter and five for Miles - plus early unlocks for Peter's Arachknight suit, Miles' Shadow-Spider suit, and the Web Grabber gadget.

The Deluxe Editions also offers +5 skill points and some extra photo mode items. It’s imperative to note that anyone who pre-orders the base game also gets the Arachknight suit, Shadow-Spider suit, Web Grabber, and +3 skill points.

Netflix’s push into gaming might not be going as planned. First reported in Game File and confirmed by Netflix, the streaming giant has discreetly shut one of its studios, the first in three years since it started foraying into gaming.

According to Game File, the shut studio was known as Blue. In 2022, the company announced it hired former Overwatch executive producer Chacko Sonny to run the studio.

Since then, Blue has roped in several game industry veterans with experience working on high-profile franchises including Halo and God of War.

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Netflix AAA Game Studio Shut Without Launching a Game

If reports are to be believed, Blue was developing a multi-platform AAA game for an original IP but was shut down before the could be announced or launched. Netflix has released a steady stream of games on its platform since the start of its gaming experiment in 2021.

Though it started with a small handful of hyper-casual mobile games, Netflix’s offerings have expanded to include mobile exclusive ports of iconic games like Grand Theft Auto and Hades its own internally developed exclusives like Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit and Oxenfree II: Lost Signals.

Netflix also acquired several studios to support its gaming arm. The most recent additions were a mobile game studio in Helsinki, a new studio in southern California, and Cozy Grove developer Spry Fox. But with the closure of Blue, Netflix’s trend of expansion might be over as well as its grander AAA ambitions.

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Netflix's Latest Game Will Take You Back To Your Childhood

Netflix is launching Minesweeper as part of its selection of subscriber-only games, and the game is now available for iOS as well as Android users. The classic puzzle game that most people know from Microsoft Minesweeper, available in Windows 11 and versions dating back to 1990, has fresh colorful graphics and new modes.

Netflix’s take on the classic game looks a whole lot like the old Minesweeper, but it adds a Journey Mode that takes players to different levels across world stages as well as unique daily challenges.

While looking for and flagging sea mines on a grid is a logic puzzle that’s often cloned in plenty of money-seeking games on the Play Store and App Store, Netflix subscribers will not find any in-game ads or microtransactions in the streaming service’s new edition.

Games might not be the biggest reason subscribers come to Netflix, but a lot of indie games, aged triple-A titles, and now Minesweeper’s S-tier idle time-killing abilities coming to the service continue the company’s attempts to maintain the stickiness of its service with subscribers.

Naughty Dog’s next title will reportedly focus on giving players more freedom. Well, that’s what minnMax founder Ben Hanson said. He claims to have received some information about the secretive project from “somebody very in the know, who worked on the game.”

“The tone was like, you are all not ready for how amazing this thing is going to be, and the tone was—I’m not going to say the game that they referenced to compare it to because I don’t want people to be like, MinnMax said it was going to be exactly like this—but they compared it to a game with a lot of player freedom.”

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Naughty Dog Not Focused On Traditional Narrative

Hanson added that Naughty Dog’s upcoming game was compared to Hitman. In 2023, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann said that he would like the studio to focus less on traditional narrative in future projects.

“I’m more recently intrigued by stuff like Elden Ring and Inside, that don’t rely as much on traditional narrative to tell a story,” he told The Washington Post. “I think some of the best storytelling in The Last of Us – yes, a lot of it is in the cinematics – but a lot of it is in the gameplay, and moving around a space, and understanding a history of space by just looking at it and examining it.

“To me that, right now, is some of the best joy I get out of games – [those] that trust their audience to figure things out, that don’t hold their hand. That’s the stuff I’m really intrigued by going forward.”

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Many Games Under Development At Naughty Dog

Druckman added: “I think those are tools in your toolbox and it’s about how to use all these different aspects – some of it from other media, some of it [as] found notes and environmental storytelling.

“I think there’s a way to push that stuff forward, at least, for the kind of games we make at Naughty Dog. I’m really intrigued – again, [we’re] never resting on our laurels, and trying something a little bit new, a little bit different, that not everyone’s going to like, but that’s okay.
 

“And again, it’s stuff that we’re working on now – I can tell you that the teams are very excited by the different projects we have at Naughty Dog.” In July, he said that there are several games under development at Naughty Dog. These games include “multiple single-player projects,” but he emphasized that while they won’t all be The Last of Us titles, they will have a similar goal.

“We create experiences that are steeped in story and character, especially relationships,” he told the LA Times. “The stories have some sort of philosophical core that everything is going to revolve around and feed into.”