I think it is fair to say that the governing body of soccer, FIFA, has seen better days. More popular days. Without the scandals, and politics, and controversies. FIFA, as a game is popular. FIFA is a video game is popular. But FIFA as the organization branch of the world's game.... not so much. They aren't winning any additional fans in the states with recent comments from FIFA president Sepp Blatter suggesting that the United States has "no strong soccer league".
I know what you're thinking, or well, I'm going to presume I know. What is a blog devoted to the Houston Dynamo, a Major League Soccer club, doing with a review/closer look article about a video game which regularly ignores the league and it's teams? That is really a great point, but for once a null point.
To celebrate the release of EA Sports' wildly popular FIFA 13 video game, we asked the Qatar InvestmentAuthority, owners of PSG, to play it and give us their thoughts. This is their review...
First of all, we were gravely disappointed to learn that this is a video game and not the ability to purchase ownership of FIFA, the actual international governing body of football, for the entirety of 2013.
NEW YORK -- The day so many soccer fans in the United States have been anxiously waiting for is finally here, and the prepared reasons for missing work have surely already begun hitting employers' desks across the nation.
EA Sports' FIFA Soccer 13 hit shelves at midnight on Tuesday and its highly-anticipated release is sure to satisfy the cravings of gamers who have been needing a new fix after playing last year's edition ad naseum.
Former England international Owen Hargreaves has announced that he intends to sign with Chelsea
in the upcoming EA Sports video game FIFA 13. The 31-year-old midfielder, who made just four
appearances with Manchester City before he was released at the end of last season, was unable to
find a new club during the summer transfer window.
FIFA 13 reveals 2012/13 Tottenham third kit - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Tottenham Hotspur and Under Armour have launched the third kit for the club with the help of the
upcoming EA Sports' football game FIFA 13. The video below exclusively shows the 2012/13 third kit
and the White Hart Lane in fabulous fashion.
Video games giant EA Sports has received criticism for failing to include women's players and
teams on its popular title "FIFA" in the wake of the United States' dramatic victory over Japan for
the Olympic gold medal.
The Americans' 2-1 triumph was watched by over 80,000 fans in Wembley Stadium and an audience of
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Since Mario Balotelli unleashed his instantly iconic shirtless flex goal celebration on Euro
2012, there have been demands for it to appear in the upcoming FIFA 13 video game. Well, EA Sports
apparently listened to gamers for once and included the move in a motion capture session starring
the Vancouver Whitecaps' Jay DeMerit and Alain Rochat.
Electronic Arts Inc. and Tottenham Hotspur announced they have agreed to a three-year partnership
that will make EA SPORTSâ„¢ the Official Video Game Partner of the Spurs.
EA Sports has released a trailer for FIFA 13, the highly anticipated video game due out later this
year. Watch the above video to see actual gameplay footage and some of the new features that are
highlighted. The trailer, which ...
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EA Sports UEFA EURO 2012 video game will be released via digital download only on April 24th, 2012.
Here are details on the game, screenshots and its first two official...
We're just weeks away from the launch of the UEFA Euro 2012 video game from EA Sports, which will
be available to FIFA 12 customers at the end of April. And now a trailer has been released to
promote the ...
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EA Sports announced today that the official video game for Euro 2012 will be available as a
downloadable expansion pack for owners of the FIFA 12 game. US residents will be able to get the
game for $19.99, while in ...
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EA Sports has unveiled their TV ad for FIFA Street, the video game that features 5-a-side games,
mind bending soccer tricks and more. The TV ad for FIFA Street is certainly eyeopening. It makes
pretty compelling viewing, and features some ...
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FIFA 13 hits stores next month, and EA released a trailer Tuesday of what fans and gamers can
expect from the latest edition of the popular video game (watch for the cameo from New York Red
Bulls DP Tim Cahill). Enjoy:
NEW YORK -- A handful of reporters were given a glimpse of what FIFA13 will be all about when it
is released in the fall, scoring a rare chance to play a beta test version of the video game in New
York City on Wednesday afternoon.
SBI was among the groups in attendance and we can tell you that the game is looking
promising.
In recent discussions, multiple commenters have proposed leveraging the Sounders' ties to the
Xbox brand to improve our chances of landing a big-name DP. That could happen, but why should the
positive connection simply be limited to the Sounders? Shouldn't the league as a whole make use of
the platform?
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Last week Houston Dynamo Defender Geoff Cameron announced that he would be working with Dynamo
Charities to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The fundraising will include an
upcoming celebrity pour, campaign T-shirts, a FIFA Street tournament, and a special ticket package
for the Dynamo's match against the Portland Timbers on May 15th.
FIFA Street is scheduled for release in March, 2012. But we have several videos that provide a
glimpse into what the video game will look like. The game, based on street soccer or street
football, is also known as FIFA ...
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Featuring the words of Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida, The Goalkeeper and the
Void was a Jury winning film at the 2011 Machinima Expo, and primarily uses footage from
the video game Pro Evolution Soccer (Winning Eleven).
As the ability to mimic Hollywood for its dramatic flair and theatrics goes, this surely has to
be the goal of the year, right? The score level in stoppage time, Real Sociedad's Inigi Martinez
swung one from his own half into the back of the net for the 3-2 winner. Which might've happened in
a video game once, but surely not on an actual pitch.
3PM Extra: Real-life football video game, brilliant overhead goal and an even better own
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Presenting quality football videos from the interweb, daily at 3pm. Here's today's collection:
1)Â Imagine getting two five-a-side teams and wiring them up with headphones linked to a
smartphone so that someone can control what they do by sending them commands like "shoot", "pass"
and "tackle" so the whole thing becomes like a real-life version of a computer game.
'What does that even mean?' I hear you ask. It means that Darren Bent and Kasabian frontman Tom
Meighan were both handed a five-a-side team to control. Literally. The players were kitted out with
some fancy headgear which instructed them to strike, tackle, cross, dribble, slide, pass as
directed by Bent and Meighan from their [.
QPR midfielder and cultured man about town Joey Barton has been ingratiating himself with stars
of hit TV show The Only Way Is Essex while checking out the newly launched video game Call Of Duty:
Modern Warfare 3. Barton was in attendance at the glitzy launch of the game, along with fellow
Premier League footballers Kieran Gibbs, Daniel Sturridge and Anton Ferdinand, who spent his first
night at a public event since his altercation with John Terry with none other than the Chelsea
captain's te.
Just in time for the holidays, Sega is releasing Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed Bonus Edition, which is your standard go-kart racing game with a couple of twists. One of those twists is that the fastest female race car driver, Danica Patrick has joined the character roster.
Danica, by the way, just finished her first season in NASCAR ending 10th in the Nationwide Series points — the best finish ever for a woman in NASCAR
The new Sega game enables players to race on land, sea and air transforming from one vehicle type to the next on the fly.
Shortly after joining Barcelona in 2010, David Villa starred in a spot for the video game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit in which he destroyed a parked police car with nothing more than a football and his powerful shot. Apparently Barcelona did not like this.
In the clip, Villa methodically kicks a Jabulani at a police car, destroying its exterior bit by bit with every kick (like anyone could control a Jabulani that well).
With the games kicking off in less than 24 hours now, many fine upstanding young hooligans are
preparing for their days of glory. The fan zone could soon become a war zone, considering some of
the host cities have behavioral issues to say the least. The police, particularly those in Krakow,
have unfurled the whole bag of tricks to reveal video game-type tactics on the other end.
It's a simple question, but not necessarily simple to answer.
Most critics would consider the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) Champions League
winner to be the best team in the world on account of what the tourney represents regarding skill
level.
Juventus legend Alsessandro Del Piero's career with the Italian giants could be winding down to
an end after club president Andrea Agnelli refused to grant him an extension on his contract which
runs out in the summer.
In an interview with Vanity Fair that is scheduled to be published today, Del Piero revealed how
Agnelli's comments took him by surprise.
At some point in the very near future, a European Super League may consist simply of Messi v
Neymar to see who can solo slalom more goals through a side comprised of the world's best
defenders.
For now, however, he's still in South America, still making defenders look like useless pieces
of traffic cone with video game goals, and still making everyone wonder when he'll finally make The
Leap.
A few weeks ago while watching the MLS Player Combine I was struck by a strange realization;
what happens in the Seattle Sounders FO is a spectator sport and that for me it is one of my
favorite aspects of the game.
The internet broadcasts for the Combine were sponsored by a video game called Football Manager
2012 by Sega.
Peyton Hillis has had a very interesting couple seasons with the Cleveland Browns. In 2010,
Hillis took the league by storm and was one of the best running backs in the league. Heading into
the 2011 campaign, big things were expected out of him. However, he struggled mightily on the field
and clashed with teammates off the field.
Ricardo Quaresma is sort of the quintessential flashy footballer. The type of gent whose game
translates better to YouTube and the video game of your choice rather than a pitch of appropriate
measure. Turns out his lifestyle is equally as flashy. He was the victim of an armed robbery this
morning, of things which were on his person.
