CVG: Publisher splashes the big bucks to win FIFA endorsement from England striker
BeefJack writes: For those of you that purchased the FIFA 09 Ultimate Team DLC, you may have found that the game 'challenged' the EA servers and led to a disruption to gameplay. If you did experience problems, you'll be pleased to know that you will be rewarded compensated with 10,000 coins, provided that you made your purchase before April 10. These are of course in-game coins and cannot be spent on the high street!
BeefJack writes: The world's best 32 virtual football players lined up at Port Olympic, Barcelona, Spain in an attempt to be crowned the FIFA Interactive World Champion 2009. Despite the fierce competition, Bruce Grannec was able to defeat 22-year-old Mexican, Ruben Zerecero, 3-1 in the final round to snag the title.
With the release of FIFA 09 DLC just three weeks away, a tasty nugget of information has been found. The new Ultimate Team Mode DLC that will ...
Taking place on Thursday April 23rd at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London, this year's MCV Industry Excellence Awards will be the most hotly-contested ever, with 17 accolades up for grabs, across a diverse range of categories covering the entire industry. Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sega and Activision will battle it out for the Games Publisher Award, whilst individual titles Guitar Hero World Tour, GTA IV, FIFA 09, Fallout 3, Wii Fit and Call of Duty: World At War compete for Game Campaign.
This patch updates FIFA Manager 09 to the latest version and it includes all fixes from previous patches. Saved games from previous versions will continue to work.
GI.biz writes: Electronic Arts has released FIFA 09 statistics, revealing that around 1.25 million games are played online every day. The number of games played daily represents a 321 per cent increase over the the previous title in the series, and makes FIFA 09 the most popular EA Sports game online. In total, over 141 million games of FIFA 09 have been played on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 since the game's European launch last September.
Modders created a Next Generation Graphics Patch for EA's FIFA 09, which is improved with a better visualization of the matches.
Ve3tro writes, Here are the top 20 games in the UK right now based on sales. The top four spots seem to be just rearranging themselves from last week's, with EA's FIFA 09 now in the top spot.
EA's FIFA 09 has become UK's all-format Christmas number one following an eleventh-hour sales surge at the retailers. The highly successful sports title, which has hovered around the top half of the charts since its October release, snatched the accolade from the bookies' odds-on favorite Call Of Duty: World At War. Treyarch's war shooter had held number one in the charts for nearly a record-breaking six successive weeks, yet promotion at the retailers saw sales in FIFA 09 mushroom 89% overnight, sending World At War to second spot.
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