News

Wounded Galatian: Max Payne 3′s Soccer Mission And Its Fictitious Team

This only marginally qualifies as a spoiler alert, because if you’ve played Max Payne 3 for longer than 20 minutes, you’ve encountered this mission already. It revolves around a shootout in the locker room of the Galatians FC in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which, as a quick internet search plus common sense reveals, ain’t a real team.


November 27, 2011
In Real Life

EA Sports Delights In Signing Away Pro Evolution Soccer’s Three-Time Cover Star

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.


October 6, 2011
News

Sports Video Game Outsold Gears Of War 3′s Launch

EA Sports’ hot streak at retail continues to ride strong; FIFA 12 sold 3.2 million copies in its first week, the label reports, citing internal analysis. That means FIFA 12‘s launch was bigger than Gears of War 3‘s


September 10, 2011
Xbox

The 6 Biggest Sports In The World In One Kinect Game

Why worry about which sports game to play on your Xbox 360 when you can get baseball, hockey, basketball, golf, football, and other football, all in one handy Kinect game?


August 4, 2011
News

After Tragic Death, The Timing Couldn’t Be Worse For This Soccer Game

Today, soccer player Naoki Matsuda died due to cardiac arrest complications. He was 34 years old. Also today, a PSP game he promoted went on sale in Japan.


July 29, 2011
In Real Life

The Long, Strange History Of Video Games Sponsoring Football Teams

Summer pre-season trips are underway, the transfer market is in full swing and Wayne Rooney is back once again on the cover of a FIFA game. Yes, it’s time for another season of European football.


June 14, 2011
In Real Life

Ranking The Tech Nerds Who Own Sports Teams

You might have wondered why so much attention was lavished on one doughy white guy after the Mavericks won the NBA title last night.


May 22, 2011
News

Leaked Video Gives In-Depth Look At FIFA 12 And Its ‘Impact Engine’

A leaked webcast of the improvements to and new features in FIFA 12 graced YouTube earlier this week, was removed, and has returned. It’s about 10 minutes of new stuff, some of it highly technical, but for FIFAphiles, it sheds plenty of light on the “Impact Engine” anchoring this year’s batch of upgrades.


May 21, 2011
News

Chelsea Football Club Repels Invasion From Space Using Their Balls

These four members of the Chelsea Football Club probably wouldn’t mind us Americans calling it soccer, as long as we gave them proper acknowledgement for saving the entire planet from “giant alien invaders”, which are definitely not Space Invaders for legal reasons.


May 5, 2011
News

Gamers More Agitated By Playing Sports Games Than Shooters

There’s a couple of ways to look at this latest video game study out of the UK. Either there is no meaningful link between playing violent video games and aggressive behaviour, or FIFA 11 is deadlier than Modern Warfare.