Electronic Arts and Tiger Woods have come to a mutual decision to end their partnership for the long-running Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of golf games, the publisher announced today.

EA is developing a golf title for next-generation consoles as well as mobile platforms, and will continue to work with the PGA Tour organization for those games.

"We've always been big fans of Tiger and we wish him continued success in all his future endeavors," said Daryl Holt, vice president and general manager of golf for EA Sports, in a post on EA's The Beat blog. "Moving forward, we will continue to work with the PGA Tour exclusively to create groundbreaking golfing titles and our partnership remains strong."

Holt also provided the first images of EA's next-generation golf game: a screenshot of the in-development version as it currently exists, and a capture of the developers' visual target. You can see both images below.

EA released 16 main Tiger Woods titles under its arrangement with the golfer — one every year from Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99 in 1998 through Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 in 2013. The company also published CyberTiger, an arcade game, in 1999, as well as the browser-based game Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online.

Kotaku reported earlier this year that the Tiger Woods franchise, which is developed at EA's Tiburon studio outside of Orlando, Fla., was taking 2014 off and would return in 2015. EA later said that it was not planning to release a new Tiger Woods title before April 2014; the company's current schedule for the series is unclear.

The next-generation version of PGA Tour will run on the EA Sports Ignite engine, like all of the company's sports titles for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.


http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/28/50...tinue-next-gen

Tiger Woods and the NCAA should grab a beer and reminisce.

I hope this means they're going to just scrap the old stuff and start over from scratch. I played countless hours of the Tiger Woods series, but it has definitely run its course. That turned into just about the laziest franchise going. I never even bought the latest version of it.

Not to worry, Tiger fans, as EA is going to have a Woods' branded sex-simulator out just in time for Christmas!

**crickets**

This opens the door for Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf 2014!

I'd love to see Kinect 2.0 implemented properly for the next iteration of EA golf