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FIFA Gets A Fan Facelift
FIFA is a beautiful representation of the beautiful game, but that all falls apart once you hit the series’ sluggish and confusing menu screens.
Hilarious FIFA Fails Fall Down — But It Doesn’t Flop
FIFA, we kid because we love. You are one of the Big Four — the best sports video games each year. But you know the risks of having a real-time physics engine: It means the occasional noggin’ knockin’ (and salad-tossin’) in this anthology of wild moments via Rooster Teeth‘s Achievement Hunter.
The Most Hilarious Sports Game Glitches, Now In Motion
The constant progression of annual sport titles has another advantage besides the games getting more and more realistic every year. It creates moments where the players go nuts — suddenly, our ordinary game turns itself into Dragon Ball Z or Super Smash TV. We selected below a few of these from the last few years’ FIFA, NHL and NBA titles.
EA Sports’ Dream Appliance Has Arrived: The Internet-Enabled Fridge
Seven months ago at E3, I sat down with EA Sports’ boss, Andrew Wilson, for an annual chat that always features a lot of big-picture spitballing because of where and when it takes place. I forget what question brought this up, but I’m now looking at my notebook from that day and I see the words “Internet-enabled fridge” written and underlined twice.
Did Sports Video Games Really Get Any Better In 2012?
Earlier this week, Metacritic bemoaned 2012 as a year of poorer review scores for video games than the one preceding it. Fewer titles surpassed the all-important 90 — which practically guarantees job security to those who developed or greenlit the project — than in 2011. Interestingly, the three console platforms’ average review scores all improved slightly.
The Sports Video Games Of The Year
Rarely considered for overall video-game-of-the-year honours, the uncommon diversity of sports video games, and the unique demands placed on them to recreate both a real-world sport and the real-life experiences associated with it, support their own class of awards more than any other genre. These are Kotaku‘s Stick Jockey Sports Video Games of the Year. This year we’ll recognise achievements in six categories.
When Only 42 People Are Playing Madden On The Wii U, It’s Not A Sports Console
Around halftime of a game on an NFL Sunday is a good time to take the temperature of the Madden NFL crowd. It’s like the water department analysis that shows everyone flushing the john when the Super Bowl goes to the break. In this case, online gamers, many of whom have their consoles running and connected to the servers throughout, often jump in for a quick match during the network highlights and recaps. Here was the picture on the Xbox 360 at midafternoon: 31,080 Madden players connected to the EA Sports servers; 2,978 were in a game. On the Wii U: 42 were online. One was in a game.
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