Every year around this time, the Queen’s New Year Honours list is released, honouring those from the United Kingdom who are, well, worth being honoured. This year, plenty of video game types made the cut.
If World of Warcraft could ever be toppled in the MMO space, then surely a massively multiplayer football management game has as good a shot as any at taking the title. It’s only the most popular game in the entire world, after all. Sega sends word today that Football Manager Live, from CM and FM developer Sports Interactive, is now available for download, with a boxed retail version shipping in a few weeks. To celebrate, here’s my favourite goal of all time.
Sports Interactive’s Football Manager 2009 has gone gold, hurrah. To ramp up the launch, SI and SEGA Europe are planning to release not one, not three but two demos.
Sports Interactive is planning a ‘soft launch’ of its online multiplayer twist on soccer management sim Football Manager 2009, with massively multiplayer footy to kick off properly early in 2009.
The PC version of Football Manager 2009 is to be made available via STEAM from its retail launch date of November 14th.
