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Microsoft has seemingly altered its position on free copies of FIFA 14 with the Xbox One. The platform holder had previously stated that all pre-orders for the console would include a digital version of EA’s football game. Indeed, the official Xbox Twitter account categorically stated that both standard and Day …
Read More »Gareth Bale remains FIFA 14 cover star
Winger Gareth Bale will remain the cover star of FIFA 14, despite his 85.3m transfer from Tottenham to Real Madrid. Bale was unveiled as the player to stand alongside Lionel Messi on the front cover of UK version of FIFA 14 last month. The deal was between EA, Bale’s camp …
Read More »FIFA 14 tops Gamescom buzz league but PES 2014 is up for the fight
EA’s FIFA 14 has been crowned as the internet global buzz champion of Gamescom 2014. New research from Way to Blue collating Twitter, blog and online news mentions, saw EA’s football title grab a massive 41 per cent share of the online noise throughout the German trade show. It was …
Read More »PS4 and Xbox One FIFA 14 has 10x the animations of current gen game
EA has outlined some of the reasons why gamers may want to either hold out for next-gen FIFA 14 or buy the game a second time when PS4 and Xbox One are released. "There were two things we did straight away," FIFA franchise boss David Rutter told Eurogamer when asked …
Read More »GameStop announces FIFA 14 £5.97 trade-in deal
With a little less than a month to go before its release, the battle to win FIFA 14 mindshare appears to have begun. GameStop.co.uk has revealed a similar trade-in scheme to that it is running for Grand Theft Auto V. Punters who lay down 39.97 on a copy of FIFA …
Read More »"Aggressive" EA licensing leads to PES 2014 cuts; Rain also missing
Konami has confirmed a couple of features that won’t make it into the extremely promising looking PES 2014. Chief amongst them is the omission of rain. Rain has not been implemented for 2014 as we had to overhaul the whole game and build it from scratch,” a memo posted by …
Read More »PlayStation: We don’t need to give anything away for free
Sony has shrugged off Xbox One’s FIFA 14 giveaway. The platform holder told MCV that it would only need to offer free games at launch if pre-orders were low, and that PS4 demand is currently much higher than expected. Xbox announced at Gamescom that FIFA 14 would be included with …
Read More »Vita version of FIFA 14 is re-skinned version of last year’s release
FIFA 14 on Vita will not feature any of the gameplay improvements found in many of the game’s other versions. "There will be a Vita version, and it’ll be the same great gameplay," EA Sports’ David Rutter told Eurogamer. "It’s the same great gameplay and new kits." Although it has …
Read More »EA wants to gauge interest in possible women’s football inclusion in future FIFA titles
You think that women’s football should be a feature of future FIFA titles? Then let EA know. That’s the message from the publisher, whose GM of Sports Matt Bilby told Polygon that the company first looked into the possibility five years ago, only to discover that there was little interest. …
Read More »VIDEO: Captain Picard and FIFA 14 combine for much epicness
Football is one of the most important things in the world. That is a fact. So EA’s decision to combine a suitably epic monologue from Captain Picard (whom for reasons unclear some people refer to as Patrick Stewart) with gameplay footage from FIFA 14 is inherently sensible. And quite brilliant. …
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