Spotify lets EA Sports activities FC gamers stream music throughout gameplay

Spotify is moving into gameplay — form of — by a partnership with EA Sports activities. The music streaming platform has teamed up with the sports activities online game maker to offer customers built-in streaming entry whereas enjoying EA Sports FC 25.

This partnership ought to enable gamers on the PS5 and Xbox Sequence X or S to entry Spotify music, podcasts and audiobooks. The one catch? It's presently a pilot program and solely accessible to customers in Australia and Saudi Arabia. Oh and it's unique to Spotify Premium subscribers.

Relevant gamers will see a brand new Spotify tab in the primary menu part and may log into their accounts there. They will then entry Spotify from the set-up or pause menus — so that they should interrupt gameplay to decide on a tune. The latter can also be the place avid gamers can skip or choose a brand new observe. These tracks will present up as a small icon on the high of the display.

Gamers can decide out of the sport's default audio in favor of their Spotify playlist. Nonetheless, Spotify cautions that "sure music" received't be accessible proper now.

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