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Time of India
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
EA FC Mobile reveals 11 Ragnarok Mighty Winter Week 1 promo cards featuring all Icons and Heroes
EA Sports has officially kicked off the Ragnarok: Mighty Winter phase in FC Mobile with a powerful start, revealing the Week 1 promo cards during a livestream hosted by developers "Antwan" and "Tak" on the game's official YouTube channel. The first look at the promo cards can come as a surprise to the community, not because of who's missing from the event, but because the main featured promo image displays only Icons and Heroes, completely leaving out the live players who are also part of this phase. This article lists all cards, ranging from 108 to 111, that feature in the first promo of EA FC Mobile Ragnarok: Mighty Winter. All Featured promo cards of EA FC Mobile Ragnarok Mighty Winter Week 1 The promotional image shown in the livestream includes 8 Icons and 3 Heroes, featuring some of football's most legendary names in history. Here's the full list based on the official reveal: Icons 111 OVR CAM – Bobby Charlton 111 OVR LW – George Best 111 OVR RB – Carlos Alberto Torres 111 OVR ST – Ferenc Puskás 111 OVR ST – Didier Drogba 110 OVR CM – Frank Lampard 110 OVR CDM – Roy Keane 110 OVR RM – Gheorghe Hagi Heroes 110 OVR CM – Ledley King 109 OVR CM – Guti (José María Gutiérrez) 108 OVR CAM – Abedi Pelé These cards span multiple leagues, eras, and play styles, offering a rich blend of football royalty for players to build their squads around. All eleven cards featured are non-live, setting a serious tone for how special this event's upper tier is going to be. While the image might suggest otherwise, live players are very much part of the Ragnarok Week 1 release. However, EA Sports has chosen to spotlight only the Icons and Heroes in the featured artwork, perhaps to build anticipation around the high-tier cards and give the event a legendary, Norse-inspired tone. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like local network access control Expertinspector Learn More Undo Expect live players to appear in event chapters and offer more balanced or grindable routes for free-to-play users, while the featured icons and heroes could dominate premium packs and milestone rewards. The Ragnarok: Mighty Winter phase is shaping up to be one of the most Icon-heavy and power-centric events in recent FC Mobile memory. With Week 1 launching on July 10, 2025 players can gear up for one of the most epic card releases yet—featuring timeless greats like Best, Charlton, and Drogba, backed by fan-favorite heroes like Abedi Pelé. If this is just the beginning, the coming weeks of Ragnarok are likely to bring even more thunder. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'An airier touch on a record of extraordinary scope': Wardruna's Birna
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Can a project as rooted in the past as Wardruna truly be considered progressive? The Norwegian group utilise recreated Viking-era and Stone Age instruments to explore ancient cultural and mythological themes. This is a place where experimental archaeology meets pure creativity. There are sounds and instruments that distant ancestors might have been familiar with, but arranged and expressed in a way that might never have been heard until the band spearheaded a burgeoning movement of Norse-inspired folk – and certainly not by modern ears. With no way of knowing what music those ancients actually created, Wardruna's contemporary vision marries subtlety and complexity to an elemental power. Moments on sixth album Birna (named for a she-bear in old Norse mythology) are sparse and simple – but these compositions are as meticulously constructed as any modern prog opus. The old Nordic themes also have a timelessness that resonates through the ages. Having previously pored through runes and ravens, here they consider the bear and everything that it represents, symbolically and mythologically. That might seem a narrow focus, but through it they explore the cycle of the seasons and man's relationship with nature – a subject as relevant today as it ever was. Given the bear's reputation for savagery, Birna could have easily trod some of the more aggressive ritualistic paths that have endeared them to metal as well as prog and folk fans. Instead, the majority of the album has an airier touch. The title track revolves around Lindy-Fay Hella's haunting vocals and bright choral arrangements, and there's an early three-track set-piece that takes the listener into hibernation and back again. Ljos Til Jord (which translates roughly as 'Light To Earth') musically represents the transition from sunlit world to beneath the ground while Dvaledraumar ('Hibernation Dream') is a 15-minute segment of found sounds and deep, trance-inducing ambience. Finally, Jord Til Ljos ('Earth To Light') returns to the surface with beautiful strings and playful flutes welcoming the spring. Himinndotter celebrates the notion of the bear's mythical origin as a celestial being, with the voices of the Norwegian women's choir Koret Artemis reaching up to whatever heavens are appropriate. Hibjørnen provides a much sparser counterpoint, with chief visionary Einar Selvik evoking skaldic traditions with a simple vocal and plucked lyre accompaniment. The closing trio of songs do go deeper and darker, rounding off an album of extraordinary scope. Birna is on sale now via Music For Nations/Sony.
