The 2010 World Cup draws near, and that means one thing: football. OK, two things: football, and an EA Sports football game cashing in on the World Cup. World Cup 2010 is essentially FIFA 10 with a focus on national teams, the reduction in available sides hopefully compensated for by an increase in polish and incidental detail, making the most of that expensive FIFA World Cup license. It’ll be out in April, for the 360, PS3, Wii and PSP.

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World Cup 2010: No Man United, Plenty Of Brazilian Ladies [Clips]

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Video: 2010 FIFA World Cup – Sizzle trailer

March 8, 2010 by admin
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Video: 2010 FIFA World Cup – Sizzle trailer

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Ubisoft Taking On FIFA & Pro Evo (Sort Of) [Ubisoft]

March 8, 2010 by admin
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This May, Ubisoft will be dipping its toes into the lucrative (and highly competitive) football game market, with the release of Pure Football on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Rather than trying to take on EA’s FIFA and Konami’s Pro Evo series, Pure Football goes the “Madden Arcade” or “FIFA Street” route, focusing on five-on-five football with no referees, an over-the-shoulder camera (think FIFA’s Be A Pro mode) and four player local multiplayer (with 1v1 online play also supported). Sounds a lot like a mix between FIFA’s Be A Pro and Sega’s Soccer Slam. Which is in no way a bad thing.

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Ubisoft Taking On FIFA & Pro Evo (Sort Of) [Ubisoft]

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Games Provide Comfort to Chilean Woman Pulling Through Quake [Feel Good]

March 5, 2010 by admin
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A Chilean woman coping with the devastation wrought by last week’s earthquake has looked to games to provide some comfort and normalcy, and a fragile World of Warcraft collectible that somehow managed to survive is her symbol of hope. Karen, the gamer, was not near the worst of the shaking – she’s in Santiago, some 200 miles north of Concepcíon, the epicenter. It was still bad enough to toss fragile keepsakes and glasses and shatter them on the floor of her home. Except for that stein, a World of Warcraft “Blood of the Horde” collectible that only suffered some light damage to its flip top. Karen figured, if that piece of ceramic was tough enough to make it through, then perhaps her friends and family further to the south also hung in there and pulled through. “Only the top is a little mess up but everything its fine,” Karen said (in broken English) in a cathartic thank-you email to the stein’s maker, Taverncraft “I know its stupid but it was like … a little breath for me … we joke about it and the stein help us to relax in that moment …” She continued: All i wanna say that you made a good product and little stein give me hope, and have family in Concepcion and the other region that are the most affected for the earthquake and when I see the stein without a scratch for me was like … yeah maybe my family made it too… that day I couldn’t sleep… and only yesterday i have news all my family from the south are alive The MMO site ZAM contacted Karen and found she was playing Guitar Hero: Metallica with friends when the quake hit past 3 a.m. local time. In addition to her Warcraft gaming (she’s an Orc enhancement shaman, name of Taoren) she also plays Starcraft, and has organized FIFA 10 and Left 4 Dead gaming nights for her friends this weekend, to help keep everyone’s mind off the disaster, if only for a couple of hours. World of Warcraft Player Digs Out of Chilean Quake [ZAM. Image via ZAM.]