March 24, 2011 David Bryant
It’s only in Beta at the moment but the FIFA 11 Ultimate Team Online Store is now open for business. At the moment you can only buy packs with coins earned in game (no destroying credit cards just yet) but all pack varieties are available including the much coveted limited edition ones. I’ve had a [...]
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January 13, 2011 David Bryant
The “rage quit” is a problem for a lot of online games these days and its an entirely user created problem. But that doesn’t mean publishers can’t do more to minimise its impact on the honest gamer. Publishing regular quitters DNF doesn’t stop them and neither does limiting the skill points they can accumulate so how can EA themselves deal with rage [...]
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June 10, 2010 Kitana Media
Nice article up on Eurogamer today, discussing how the FIFA devs are combating online quitters. Theres also a mention on Clubs too, and how EA are working on rectifying the issues many people had with that particular mode. Get the full story by clicking here. Thanks once again to fifa_king for the heads, good to [...]
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March 26, 2010 Chris Davies
So you want a 2010 FIFA World Cup exclusive do you? But not just any exclusive, not just “England have been programmed to lose on penalties every single time they occur” or “playing as Cristiano Ronaldo will unlock a hidden minigame called Handbags”. Well in that case, we’ve got something to tell you. Just remember [...]
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January 19, 2010 Chris Davies
Do you often play games for 24 hours straight? Well in that case you’re crazy and you must be really tired a lot of the time, but if you’d like to make the record books and you think you can do it, Stryxa are hosting an official FIFA 10 Guinness World Record attempt on Tuesday [...]
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July 13, 2009 Chris Davies
All the FIFA sites are currently focused on the upcoming July 15th NDA expiry, with several sites finishing up their previews and articles about the sparkly new features we’ll be playing with come FIFA 10′s release. But in the meantime, here’s a little article from EA themselves about FIFA 10′s online play. The official EA [...]
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Tags fifa 10, online, pc, ps3, xbox 360
June 2, 2009 Suffwan
Did you know that over 280 million games of FIFA 09 have been played online? If the average game is played with five minute halves (excluding extra time, penalties or the guys who quit after you score a goal), that’s 1,944,444 days – 46.6 million hours or 2.8 billion minutes – all spent playing FIFA. [...]
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Tags community, ea sports, fifa 09, online