May 4, 2012 Toby Ross
FIFA is infamous for being frustrating to play online, but who’s to blame? See all previous articles here. It was back in 2004 that I first played FIFA online, having gone through the laborious process of connecting up a fat PlayStation 2. Things were simpler back then with far fewer features and there was only [...]
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Tags clubs, fifa 12, online, xaor
April 26, 2012 David Bryant
The guys over at gamesindustry.biz have a cracker of an interview with EA SPORTS President Andrew Wilson on how EA took FIFA from the doldrums to the top of sports gaming. This one really is a must read guys. As well as the early strategy EA adopted to try and revive FIFA that centered around online gaming, this [...]
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Tags andrew wilson, ea sports, fifa 12, fifa 13, interview, online
February 8, 2012 Tom Mills
Another week, another Back To The FIFA post for you to start thinking about. If you’ve missed this before, you can catch up on the previous posts with this tag. In the last post we asked about Online Modes, but this week we wanted to concentrate specifically on Pro Clubs and OTP. Virtual Pro [...]
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Tags back to the fifa, fvpa, online, online team play, pro clubs
February 1, 2012 David Bryant
Where next for FIFA’s Multiplayer? It’s Wednesday and that can only mean one thing, it’s time for the next installment of Back To The FIFA. This week we want you guys to have a think about FIFA’s online modes and what new features you’d like to see over the next five years? FIFA 12 marked [...]
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Tags back to the fifa, fifa online, fsb, head to head seasons, online
January 27, 2012 Toby Ross
I’m taking a (probably brief) break from the ranting and instead focusing on an idea for future FIFA’s: bringing Career Mode online. See all previous Xaor’s corner articles here So on Wednesday the Back to the FIFA: Career Mode post was put up on FSB requesting your ‘blue-sky-thinking’ ideas about where Career Mode should go [...]
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Tags career mode, multiplayer, online, xaor
January 7, 2012 David Bryant
The most played Xbox 360 games of 2011 have been released, courtesy of Major Nelson’s Blog and of course FIFA 11 and FIFA 12 featured and actually ended up adjacent to one another in the top 10. This isn’t a great indicator as to which game is/was more popular in general because FIFA 11′s 2010 [...]
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Tags fifa 11, fifa 12, online, xbox 360, xbox live
December 1, 2011 David Bryant
It’s December 1st and that means only one thing for pro FIFA gamers, the FIWC 2012 (PS3) first online qualifier opens today! We’re expecting the tournament to be live between 9:00am and 10:00am GMT so keep a close eye on those consoles this morning. The prize on offer once again is a cool 20,000 USD and the [...]
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Tags 2012, fiwc, online, ps3, tournament
November 23, 2011 David Bryant
G4TV have got their hands on EA SPORTS brand new FIFA Street reboot and have released an excellent preview of how the game is shaping up, whilst also revealing a few of the smaller details we’ve yet to hear much about. “The ability to take a ball between an opponent’s legs–known as panna or nutmeg–is [...]
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Tags ea sports, fifa street, g4tv, online, preview
October 7, 2011 Toby Ross
FIFA games in recent years have been renowned for their expansive and innovative online features, with a huge amount of variety on offer, from the bread and butter of head-to-head ranked matches to the 11 v.s. 11 Virtual Pro Clubs. For FIFA 12 EA have gone to work changing up systems which have been part [...]
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Tags fifa 12, fifa soccer blog, fsb, online, online seasons, review, xaor
October 5, 2011 Tom Mills
Nice bit of news this, unless you’re a cheating ****. EA Yasha has put a notice up on the Official EA Forums outlining their stance on cheating. It reads as follows: We have just reset the leaderboard stats of a number of people who we have caught artificially boosting their records, including the No.1 ranked [...]
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Tags community, ea sports, fifa 12, forums, online