June 16, 2011 David Bryant
As promised over the weekend we have an exclusive FIWC Grand Final gallery for you showing how things went down in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. Francisco Cruz was the eventual winner cruzing past (sorry) the hundreds of thousands of original entrants who played online on the PS3 throughout the year. Asim Tanvir was [...]
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June 14, 2011 David Bryant
Those of you who had your ear to the ground at E3 will have heard the news that Microsoft Kinect will be supported by EA by the time we reach FIFA 13, much to my distaste. More on that here. So if Microsoft’s motion technology is in, then surely that means Sony’s offering makes the cut [...]
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June 10, 2011 David Bryant
That was a terrible headline pun, moving on. Francisco Cruz is the new FIWC Champion after a thrilling final in Los Angeles. After a stunning semi-final win against favourite Mark Azzi, Cruz went on to beat Javier Munoz in the final to net the cool 20,000USD grand prize and a ticket to the next Ballon [...]
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May 13, 2011 David Bryant
With the major gaming and FIFA community sites still under embargo I thought it was important to let you all know that there are other ways of getting your FIFA 12 fix early, simply by heading down to your local news agent. The official magazines for Xbox/Playstation and some independents like Play Magazine have FIFA 12 [...]
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April 26, 2011 David Bryant
Not something to be honest I thought we’d be posting about but based on the news to come out in the last hour I think it’s entirely appropriate that everyone is aware of the severity of the recent PSN outage and Sony’s latest update. Please head over to the Playstation Blog and read the latest [...]
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April 1, 2011 David Bryant
Rumours about the location of the FIWC World Finals have been rife for a few weeks now but finally we have confirmation that Los Angeles is the chosen Grand Final venue. It’s also important to remember that you still have time to qualify for FIWC’s show piece event should you wish to. You can qualify by [...]
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March 20, 2011 David Bryant
There’s been some contradicting reports of late regarding the date of the live FIWC UK Grand Final to be held in Liverpool which was originally pencilled in for the 11th of April. Sony however claimed that was never the case even though that date has been shown on the FIWC website for a long time now, confused? [...]
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January 21, 2011 Tom Mills
Sony have announced that they will be holding two rounds of FIWC Pre-Qualification events at their upcoming Playstation Access events in London and Glasgow. The Playstation Access events are a way to get an early look at upcoming Playstation titles, with competitions and prizes thrown in, including tickets to the Champions League final. Registration for [...]
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January 14, 2011 David Bryant
The FIWC is now officially the largest gaming tournament in the world with over 775,000 people taking part in last years event and it was down to FIFA chief Sepp Blatter and last years winner Nenad Stojkovic to welcome the hugely successful FIWC in to the record books. With numbers of FIWC competitors already up [...]
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January 8, 2011 David Bryant
Today the FIWC pre-qualifier events roll in to a rather snowy Edinburgh. The big day kicks of at 10:30am with the group stages and then its on to the ultra competitive elimination rounds in the afternoon. You can follow the event LIVE by visiting the link below. FIWC UK: Edinburgh Pre-qualifier Coverage Good to luck to all [...]
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