{"id":6400,"date":"2020-11-17T00:19:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T00:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=6400"},"modified":"2020-11-17T13:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T13:44:18","slug":"dua-lipa-video-game-character-fifa-21","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/dua-lipa-video-game-character-fifa-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa Becomes A Playable Video Game Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-6438 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/Dua-Lipa-.jpg\" alt=\"Dua Lipa\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FIFA 21 has got some new rules, &#8220;New Rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>EA Sports has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/dua-lipas-swarovski-crystal-manicure\/\">Dua Lipa<\/a> will be added as an unlockable player in a update to the 28th installment of the popular soccer video game which was released last month.\u00a0 The songstress will become the first female celebrity to get a headline bill in the wildly popular game, While the addition may seem random to some, the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/dua-lipa-pink-jimmy-fallon-outfit\/\">British singer<\/a> has a longtime relationship with the sport having performed at the opening ceremony of the UEFA Champions League Final a few years ago. A track from 25-year-old&#8217;s <em>Club Future Nostalgia<\/em> remix album is featured also on the FIFA 21 soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-6433 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/EA-Sports.jpg\" alt=\"EA Sports\" width=\"1024\" height=\"546\" data-gz_credit=\"EA Sports\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">famous faces coming to the virtual FIFA 21 field include <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/david-beckham-victoria-beckham-coronavirus\/\">David Beckham<\/a>, <\/span>F1 stars Lewis Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo, NBA forward Joel Embiid, and DJ Snake.<\/p>\n<p>EA Sports has been doing these kind of celebrity gaming crossovers for some time now. Greek pro basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo and his brothers recently appeared in Madden NFL 21, while boxer Anthony Joshua was playable in both EA Sports UFC 4 and FIFA 21. Volta Football will also be getting a bunch of new non-footballer faces including Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dua Lipa in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFA21?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#FIFA21<\/a> update! (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miniyoung48?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@miniyoung48<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wFtbXbGo2u\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wFtbXbGo2u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dua Lipa News (@dlipanews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dlipanews\/status\/1327697885694025729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">November 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>FIFA 21 is available now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows<\/p>\n<p>After working as a model, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/dua-lipa-and-anwar-hadid-have-mastered-the-art-of-couple-dressing\/\">Lipa shot to fame<\/a> with her self-titled debut album in 2017. The album peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart, and produced nine singles, including &#8220;Be the One&#8221; and &#8220;IDGAF,&#8221; and the UK number-one single &#8220;New Rules,&#8221; which also peaked at number six in the U.S. Her fame continued to grow with the success of her singles&#8221;One Kiss&#8221; with Calvin Harris and &#8220;Electricity,&#8221; a collaboration with Silk City, which won her the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. The success of the singles helped her self-titled album become one of the most-streamed albums on Spotify. Her second studio album, Future Nostalgia, was released in March 2020 and features the lead single &#8220;Don&#8217;t Start Now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26534,"featured_media":6447,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dua Lipa Becomes A Playable Video Game Character In FIFA 21<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"EA Sports has announced that singer Dua Lipa will be added as an unlockable player in a update to the new popular soccer video game FIFA 21.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/dua-lipa-video-game-character-fifa-21\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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