May 21, 2012 Tom Mills
It’s the biggest competitive event in the FIFA Calendar, it’s got a fairly decent official coach, has consistently shattered it’s own records and it’s coming to a close for the season. The live finals of the FIWC in Dubai start in just a few hours and run through to Wednesday the 23rd, featuring 24 contestants [...]
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May 21, 2012 David Bryant
The Game of European Domination When the initial Euro 2012 announcement was made the most interesting feature was without doubt the new “Expedition Mode” which to begin with was shrouded in mystery. I’ll be honest; we got pretty excited about EA’s vision for the mode (as I’m sure you did too) but sadly that enthusiastic [...]
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Tags editorial, euro 2012, expedition mode, fifa 12, game modes
May 19, 2012 David Bryant
It’s been a few days since the grand reveal of FIFA 13 now and there is some excellent coverage all over the games press and community sites. So to help you find what you need here’s a roundup of the best of the best FIFA 13 content. We especially recommend you check out the community [...]
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Tags community, fifa 13, roundup
May 18, 2012 Tom Mills
Just because we haven’t posted about it since December, doesn’t mean we’d forgotten about it (although we kind of did). The football season is now over and so is the FSB Fantasy Football League. City clinched their first Premier League title with seconds to spare on Sunday in what has to be the most exciting [...]
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Tags fantasy football, fsb, premier league
May 15, 2012 David Bryant
We hit you guys with five huge FIFA 13 posts this morning detailing Attacking Intelligence, Complete Dribble, First Touch Control, Impact Engine and Tactical Freekicks. But now it’s time for Team FSB go in depth in the second podcast of the new series. Joining your usual podcast duo Dave and Tom are NGB’s titan [...]
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Tags attacking intelligence, complete dribble, fifa 13, first touch control, impact engine, podcast, tactical freekicks
May 15, 2012 Tom Mills
Although the contents of the recent webcast can’t be published because of licensing issues, we didn’t just want you to take our word for everything. Whilst at a recent EA showcase Mr Asim Tanvir of NGB sat down with Aaron Mchardy and got him to explain the changes we can expect from FIFA 13 himself. [...]
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Tags aaron mchardy, fifa 13, gameplay, interview, video
May 15, 2012 Tom Mills
So we’ve been raining FIFA 13 content on you all morning and have a few more posts lined up, but it just keeps coming. Thanks to a press release from EA this morning we’ve got a few more details including the run down of platforms the game will be released on, as well as [...]
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Tags fifa 13, press release
May 15, 2012 David Bryant
Predictable, Unpredictability We all know that every player in FIFA 12 is blessed with the perfect first touch but in FIFA 13 EA are looking to turn this on its head to provide a more realistic and diverse range of control touches. It’s a feature we asked for and here’s the detail we have so [...]
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Tags fifa 13, first touch control, gameplay, reveal
May 15, 2012 Tom Mills
Moar Control! Next up in the webcast details bonanza is Complete Dribbling. This is what we saw. Complete Dribbling Moving vs Facing Leap in dribbling tech likened to the changes from FIFA 09 to FIFA 10 in terms of progress. To quote Aaron Mchardy, it’s a “Way bigger feature than Precision Dribbling”. Real world [...]
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Tags complete dribble, fifa 13, gameplay, reveal
May 15, 2012 David Bryant
Setting Up The Pieces Freekicks in the FIFA series have certainly been neglected over the last few years but in FIFA 13 EA are adding a wealth of new features under the banner “Tactical Freekicks“. Here’s what we know so far. Tactical Freekicks Attacking Options You will now be able to have up to [...]
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Tags fifa 13, gameplay, reveal, tactical freekicks