FIFA Off The Bench

FIFA 11 Producer Blog: Career Mode

by Marcel Kuhn | 27-August-2010

You've probably played Manager Mode and Be A Pro: Seasons in FIFA 10. For FIFA 11, we've decided to remove these two Game Modes and create a totally new experience that combines these two Modes into one connected Mode - that Mode is called Career Mode.

Want Early Access to the Creation Center?

by Alain Quinto | 11-August-2010

Pre-order EA SPORTS FIFA Soccer 11 at GameStop to receive exclusive early access to Creation Center before it's released to the public. Be one of the first people to experience the feature first-hand and start building the team of your dreams, ready to upload and play the day the game is released.

One on one with a World Champion

by Yaw Obiri-Yeboah | 07-June-2010

The FIFA Interactive World Cup has been known to produce a lot of excitement and drama. This year's tournament was held in Barcelona, Spain and for the first time ever in the competition, the championship was won by an American. We had the opportunity to sit down with FIWC winner Nenad Stojkovic for his thoughts on winning the tournament.

You Can Never Have Enough FIFA

by Alain Quinto | 04-June-2010

Even though the games have shipped, there's plenty of footy news coming out of EA Canada as we near the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa next weekend. In case you missed all the news, here's a recap:

Ultimate Team - Your Questions Answered

by Romily Broad | 05-May-2010

For the third in our new series of regular podcasts from the guys behind FIFA 10 Ultimate Team, I sat down with producer Christophe Labrune to put a few of your questions to him.

FIFA Online Closed Beta 4 Introduces Youth Scout

by Romily Broad | 05-May-2010

From May 5 to May 14 football fans are once again invited to FIFA Online's Closed Beta testing with a fourth round which introduces a new feature to the game called Youth Scout. Here is Producer Adrian Blunt to walk you through the feature plus a list of the new items that users will find in FIFA Online using in-game currency in the store.

About The Bloggers

David Rutter is the Line Producer for FIFA 11 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. A lifelong football fan, David supports Leicester and Hitchin Town. In addition to playing FIFA, Rutter also enjoys CoD, GRAW, and NHL.
Aaron McHardy is responsible for gameplay design on FIFA 11. He did that on FIFA 08, 09 and 10, too. A professional footballer prior to working at EA, Aaron displayed his skills for the motion-capture cameras on FIFA Street and FIFA Street 2.
Marcel Kuhn is a producer on FIFA 11 with a big focus on the all-new Career Mode. Prior to EA, Marcel worked for a marketing agency in Germany for several years and, later, worked for a comic publisher.
Romily Broad is community manager for EA SPORTS Football World. Principally, that means he gets to play FIFA a lot and claim that it's actual work. Between games he also brings us the weekly FIFA podcast and all the cool stuff you might find over at EASPORTSFootball.com.
Christophe Labrune came to EA Canada from France in 2001 and, after some time in QA and localistion, joined the FIFA crew for FIFA 2004. He was Online Producer for FIFA 10 on PS3 and Xbox 360 and now runs the Football Live Team for the FIFA series. If you're a forumite, you'll find him there as "EA_FLT".
Stevie Morgan has worked in sports broadcasting for the past 12 years, despite always being picked last for football at school. He has also founded a support group for fellow fans of Southampton FC who, like him, have found things a bit much over the past few years and are suffering from post-Premiership depression.
 
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