Sep 24, 2007 Joe Booth, FIFA 08 (PS3, Xbox 360) Lead Producer The evolution of our new Be A Pro feature comes from two things. First, we felt that the experience of playing FIFA 08 – both the view point and playing as the whole team – hasnt really changed since we went to 3D. At the same time there is this desire from our gamers to go to an 11 vs 11 online experience. These two things inspired us to begin experimenting with a new way to play FIFA 08. In FIFA 08 on PS3 and Xbox 360 ... » Read More

Sept 18, 2007 Ronaldinho, Barcelona's super-star, has been drafted in to show off FIFA 08s Be A Pro mode, which will be just one of the game modes that'll be on offer when the title hits PS3 and 360 on 28 September. Playing in this mode locks you into the role of a single player as you and your team try to battle your way to the top of the league. And thats not all. EA has managed to include online play in this mode, with the ability to support up to five individual players on each team. Its ... » Read More

Sept 13, 2007 EA has said that the European demo of FIFA 08 for Xbox 360 will hit Xbox Live Marketplace tonight at 9pm(GMT). It's been reported that the demo's already available in the US and that there's been a slight delay to the European arrival of FIFA 08 on 360. Not to worry though, it should appear later on tonight if all goes ... » Read More

The FIFA 08 demo has just been released on Xbox Live, unfortunately however Europe is not included in the list of countries for which this is available.
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According to the official EA Sports FIFA 08 forum the release of the FIFA 08 Xbox360 and Playstation 3 is delayed in Europe.

EA Announcement:
"We're sorry to have to tell everyone that the FIFA 08 NG demo won't be launching in Europe today as was expected. Although the demo is being released in North America there were a couple of issues which we couldn't get ironed out in time to release today despite working through out the night to get these sorted."
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EA has confirmed that the demo for FIFA 08 will go live on 360 and PS3 tomorrow.

It'll give you a chance to try out what the publisher is calling its most coherent football game to date. There's the new skill system to try out, the opportunity to play as just one member of the team and not mess it up, plus the usual better graphics, physics, and all that malarkey.
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Today EA announced the sound track for FIFA '08, which includes songs from over 25 different countries with over 50 songs on the sound track. Some of those songs are from artiest such as Apartment, Cheb i Sebbah, !!!, Art Brut. Check the article out for the complete list.
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It has been announced on the FIFA Forums today that the demo for FIFA 08 will hit Xbox Live and the Playstation 3 stores on the 13th September, here is the link.

http://footballcommunity.ea.com/foru...ic.php?t=53764
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Sept 7, 2007 Look at David Beckham showing off his rippling clothes and acutely replicated facial detail afforded by the power of PS3 and Xbox 360 in FIFA 08. It all looks very nice, doesn't it? Even if the shots don't look like they were taken from the in-game engine, but you get the idea. FIFA 08 isn't all about visuals this time round, because as well as a host of new options and refreshed gameplay physics, EA recently confirmed that it's slapping 10-player online play into this beauty as ... » Read More

Sept 07 2007 US football - sorry, soccer - teams don't usually carry much weight this side of the pond. But these new FIFA '08 screens caught our eye because, as well as being further testament to the game's graphical prowess, they all feature ex-England golden boy David Beckham. He may not be up there with Ronaldinho anymore, but we reckon he'll be choice du jour for the all-new Be A Pro mode. Leading a largely otherwise unknown squad to victory with an old hand has a certain amount of kudos ... » Read More

EA Sports have released factsheets for each version of their forthcoming soccer title FIFA 08. Rather than filter out the best bits, here they are in full for each format.
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September 3, 2007 Joe Booth, FIFA 08 (PS3, Xbox 360), Lead Producer Today I have asked gameplay designer and software engineer, Gary Paterson, to speak in the diary. When hes not following Aberdeen, celebrating Scotlands World Cup Win (the homeless World Cup that is), finding the latest Leeds United negative story to rub in my face, or reliving every detail of Scotlands one win over England, Gary is busy tweaking the shooting and the details of our game engine. Seriously, Gary is going to give ... » Read More

Fifa, the world's governing body of football, Electronic Arts and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced the new season of the fifa Interactive World Cup , the world's only officially fifa sanctioned global football gaming competition. Sony joins EA as new presenting partner for the tournament, in which participants from around the world compete with ea sports fifa 08 on the PlayStation 3. The FIWC launches with a new format, designed as a season-long experience mirroring the real world of football. The announcement was made at the Leipzig Games Convention.

The fourth edition of the FIWC kicks off in October 2007 and will culminate in the Grand Final in Berlin's Sony Centre in May 2008. This year, players can compete at one of more than 20 physical FIWC 08 Qualifier Events across the globe or online via the Playstation Network in over 25 countries. In May 2008, 32 finalists will compete to be crowned fifaInteractive World Player, rewarded with an invitation to the fifa World Player Gala along with a USD 20,000 cash prize. Registration opens today at www.FIFA.com/FIWC
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Australian website Gameplayer got word this morning from EA that this exciting new FIFA 08 feature will be region specific - Aussies for one will miss out.
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Sony has signed a deal with Electronic Arts and FIFA to be the official partner for the FIFA Interactive World Cup, which kicks off this October. The announcement means that players from 25 countries from around the world can compete to be the world's number one player over PlayStation Network, as well as real-world FIWC 08 qualifying events scheduled to take place in the coming months.
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Aug 22, 2007 FIFA 08 is getting a 10-player online mode as a downloadable extra on Xbox 360 and PS3. Great news, certainly, but it's come as quite a surprise to us at GR. You see, EA's 'Be a Pro' and 'Be a Pro Co-op' modes are so new, even EA developers we spoke to recently reckoned that the mode would be 2 v 2 for the year's sports titles, before being taken to its logical conclusion of 11 v 11 at some point in the series' future. But it seems that the full-team ideal is closer than we ... » Read More

EA announced some new details on the next iteration of the FIFA series at Leipzig. FIFA 08 will run at 60 Fps on both systems and feature 30 leagues, 575 teams and 15000 players.

An announcement also came regarding a post-launch downloadable extra mode which will allow gamers to play 10 person 5 vs. 5 matches online. Up to 10 consoles (EA said PS3s, but we're assuming it will be available for the 360 too) can connect online for true member-of-the-team online football action.
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Electronic Arts announced today that FIFA 08 will include a new feature called Be A Pro: Online Team Play that allows 10 people anywhere in the world to connect online to play a single match of FIFA 08. This feature will be available to both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game and will be free to download six to eight weeks after the release of the game.
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1up: "FIFA 08 was one of the three on-stage demonstrations during the Electronic Arts press conference at Games Convention 2007 this morning, and EA Canada Producer Joe Booth made sure to underscore an important point about this year's version: the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions are both running at 60 frames per second."
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Aug 15, 2007 Since the debut of FIFA International Soccer in 1993 each new version of EA's officially licensed soccer series has always delivered something fresh to the playing field - from the introduction of club teams (FIFA Soccer '95) and real player names (FIFA Soccer '96), through to power bars for shots (FIFA Soccer 2002) and the ability to control a second player "off the ball" (FIFA Soccer 2004). Keeping with tradition, the upcoming FIFA 08 packs in a host of changes that promise to ... » Read More