It’s not the first time we’ve seen FIFA 12′s misfiring physics engine go bananas, and it probably won’t be the last. But for now, this is easily my favourite example of how something so busted can also be something so beautiful.
The FIFA Interactive World Cup will have its Australian Grand Final in Sydney tonight to determine who will represent Australia at the worldwide grand final later this year.
Reports began to surface last year from players whose Xbox Live accounts were hacked after they played FIFA 11 and FIFA 12.
I’m still a little shocked. I mean, I love my football and I generally love my FIFA, but if you’d told me two months ago that the single best game available at the Vita’s launch would be this, a handheld port of a game that’s just in time for the end of the European season, I’d have slapped you in the mouth.
Giant video game publisher EA and its most popular video games are rich targets for hackers and scammers, but the company is determined to fight back and protect its users, EA’s number two executive tells Kotaku.
In 1997, EA Sports released a demo disc for the latest iteration of its FIFA football series. Anyone picking this disc up got a lot more than they bargained for.
Some might call this a fluke, a twist of fate — a coincidence. Striker Andy Carroll makes his way down the pitch, tries to score a goal and ends up (accidentally?) scoring with Arsenal’s keeper. The keeper of kisses.
Since October, we’ve heard anecdotal accounts of Xbox Live members finding suspicious purchases on their credit cards and learning their accounts had been recovered to another machine. Now it’s happened to a games writer — just this past week.
In this video, two men are playing a game of FIFA. Or maybe Pro Evo. Doesn’t matter, since they’re not really playing what’s on the screen. They’re controlling real men playing a real game of football.
Back in January, one of Lionel Messi’s teammates on FC Barcelona let slip that the football superstar greatly enjoyed playing EA Sports’ FIFA series. At the time, he was the three-time cover star of Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer, from its 2009 to 2011 editions.
