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Metal Gear And Pro Evolution Soccer Power Konami’s Sales

8:30PM Brian Ashcraft | Even as the global economy craters, Konami is recording strong revenues during the nine month period ending December 31, 2008. More »
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Video Game To Sponsor Pro Football Team

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Games companies sponsoring sporting teams is nothing new. Sega (Arsenal), Nintendo (Fiorentina) and Microsoft (Seattle Sounders) have all tried their hand at it. But a game sponsoring a football team, that’s new. More »

New Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 Wii Trailer and Screens

4:00PM Adam Barenblat | While PS3, PS2, PSP and Xbox 360 owners are going to be able to experience the joys of Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 come this November, Wii owners are going to have to wait a little longer. Don’t fret though, because the guys at Konami are cooking something special for you. Other than getting some beefed up AI the Wii version will sport the ‘point and click’ interface that’ll allow you to control your player as well as the teammates around him. The Wii version of the game should be hitting stores sometime in Spring 2009. Screens after the jump. More »

Getting My Arse Kicked At Pro Evo 2009

4:40PM Luke Plunkett | I know, a demo’s already out, but I hadn’t had a chance to download it, so one of the first games I ran for this TGS was pro Evo 2009. Why the running? Because I’m torn on the Pro Evo franchise. Once was a time football purists would buy Pro Evo for the simulation, and everyone else would buy FIFA because it had all the major league licenses. But the last few years? Konami have gotten sloppy. Current-gen Pro Evos looked like last-gen Pro Evos with the cracks painted over, while FIFA has come on strong with a new engine and improved gameplay. In fact, FIFA’s come on so strong that many people have already declared it the winner in this year’s tussle. Me, I’m going to give the old bird one last chance to impress before doing anything drastic. More »

New Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 Trailer

3:00AM Adam Barenblat | Pro Evolution Soccer Fans rejoice! We got a new video for the upcoming PES 2009. How does the game look? Well, pretty darn good if you ask me. While there’ll be a few new improvements in 2009 such as a new Teamvision system and better physics, there doesn’t seem to be much of an evolution in gameplay versus 2008. Though, I am sure this is for good reason since Pro Evolution has always striven for realism. PES 2009 screens [Luke posted yesterday in case you missed them] More »

How Pro Evo 2009 Differs From Pro Evo 2008

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | I was bitterly disappointed with Pro Evo 2008. Like Konami had dropped off a basket full of soccer-ball-shaped lemons, and I’d eaten every last one. And I wasn’t the only one; the game sold well enough, but there was a general feeling that Konami hadn’t taken advantage of the next generation of hardware like they could/should have. Heck, they even made some parts of the game worse, crippling the team edit suite. So they’ve got a lot to prove with the upcoming Pro Evo 2009! Let’s see if they’re doing enough, by taking a look at the new/improved features this year. More »

Pro Evo 2009 ‘Announced’

10:20PM Luke Plunkett | It’s as exciting a decree as “sun to rise tomorrow”, but hey, these kind of announcements have to made at some point, so we may as well indulge them. Konami have released the first screens and details for Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, promising that this year’s edition will feature “a raft of extensive new additions that will further bridge the gap between PES and the real thing”. Which it would want to: the last two versions of the game have been lazy updates, allowing the FIFA series to claw back some respectability in a football market once dominated (at least critically) by Pro Evo. If Konami can’t convince us this version is a significant improvement over the 2005 edition (and sort out the editing…and sort out their inability to secure the licences for some of the world’s biggest teams), EA will be sending fruit baskets and Thank You cards to Konami HQ all year long. Presser follows. Interestingly, there’s no mention of a Wii version. Maybe the Wii series will be permanently spun-off from the “main” Pro Evo games? More »