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  • Goal! EA Mobile Scores with FIFA Soccer 11 for iPhone and iPod touch

    Posted on September 30, 2010 | No Comments
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  • FIFA Soccer 11, Pro Evolution Soccer 11 first details

    FIFA Soccer 11, Pro Evolution Soccer 11 first details

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Both EA and Konami have revealed details regarding the next FIFA, called FIFA Soccer 10 in the U.S., and Pro Evolution Soccer, called Pro Evolution Soccer 11, games, respectively. The first detail: they exist. There was approximately a zero percent chance that EA and Konami wouldn't continue with the franchises, but you and I know that big corporations make terrible decisions all the time. EA's big new feature is called Personality+, and it aims to make each player in the game as much like the player in real life. That is, Messi should be able to waltz pass defenders in-game as he does for Barcelona week in, week out, while Michael Carrick should be able to complete one pass in 50 as he does for Manchester United. (Exaggerated for effect. folks, so calm down.)

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  • Here’s the cover of FIFA 10: Rooney in the UK, Xavi in Spain

    Here’s the cover of FIFA 10: Rooney in the UK, Xavi in Spain

    Posted on August 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Finally! We now know who will be on the cover of EA's FIFA 10. Well, the European versions, at least. In the UK you'll find Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, Chelsea's Frank Lampard, and Arsenal's Theo Walcott.

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  • So Mafia games are really popular?

    So Mafia games are really popular?

    Posted on July 3, 2009 | No Comments
    I guess Mafia games are a big hit these days. Zynga's Mafia Wars, a multiplayer game that's playable on social networks like Facebook, as well as the iPhone, has attracted some 4 million gamers to its clutches. (This, despite the fact that it's more or less a rip-off of the earlier Mafia Life game.) Part of the game's success, I think, can be attributed to the fact that, unlike in games like World of Warcraft, there's not as much of a social stigma attached to “whacking” rival mobsters—slaying dragons and whatnot is still sorta “nerdy,” something that good ol' Cnet says, too. So we're in good company here.

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  • One Laptop Per Child heads to Australia, helps improve Aboriginal literacy

    One Laptop Per Child heads to Australia, helps improve Aboriginal literacy

    Posted on June 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Talk about perspective. On this day when Manchester United announced that it had accepted Real Madrid's £80m bid for Cristiano Ronaldo (who will make something like €211,000 per week in Spain), we here at CG now turn our attention to the efforts being made to improve literacy. One Laptop Per Child—remember them?—has been handing out free laptops to children on Elcho Island, an Aboriginal island some 1,200 miles northwest of Sydney. (It's part of Australia.) The idea is to help the island's children with their schoolwork, get a decent education, and improve their lot in life. It's certainly a more altruistic use of technology than salivating over a digital compass, or complaining, somewhat pointlessly, about a certain Android phone's keyboard.

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  • The Champions League final will be in HD on ESPNHD today

    The Champions League final will be in HD on ESPNHD today

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Good news, sports fans in the U.S.! It looks like ESPN will broadcast today's Champions League final in HD on ESPNHD. Well, at least according to the schedule on its Web site. Why the network didn't bother showing the whole tournament in HD when UEFA provides an HD feed, I don't know.

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