FIFA Off The Bench

FIFA 10 Receives Two Nominations at 1st Annual Canadian Videogame Awards

by Alain Quinto | 16-April-2010

Hey gamers! EA SPORTS CM Alain Quinto here to provide you with the latest on the 1st Annual Canadian Videogame Awards (CVA's) to be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre on May 5th. As a proud Canadian, I'm excited to see many great studios north of the 49th being represented in the 11 Award Categories and I'm looking forward to the event co-locating with GDC-Canada this year.

FIWC: The UK Final Beckons

by Phil Wride | 18-March-2010

With only a week to go until the UK Champion is crowned at the Emirates and their name gets added to the attendance list for the Global Finals in Barcelona things have been heating up nicely. The last online pre-qualifier has been completed and James Barrett now joins his brother Michael at the UK Final on the 22nd so there will certainly be some rivalry.

FIFA 10 Ultimate Team Offering 10K Coins in St. Patrick's Gold Cup

by Romily Broad | 15-March-2010

If you haven't yet tried your hand in FIFA 10 Ultimate Team, now is most definitely the time to add the game mode to your copy of FIFA 10 and take advantage of our most lucrative tournaments to date.

Adam's Ultimate Team - Mini blog

by Adam Shaikh | 24-February-2010

Thanks to the overwhelming response around the question posed on Facebook: Who would be on YOUR Ultimate Team? (over 500+ responses!) Adam Shaikh, producer on FIFA 10 Ultimate Team, has been kind enough to share his inside knowledge on what makes a great team and who his ideal Ultimate Team is.

FIFA 10 Ultimate Team Blog #4: Compete With Your Ultimate Team

by John Shepherd | 18-February-2010

Hello all - time for a new blog with some new information for Ultimate Team! To quickly recap - so far we have chatted about building and managing your Ultimate Team. Today I'll be talking about how you go about competing with your Ultimate Team.

FIFA 10 Gamers Score Guinness World Record

by Romily Broad | 01-February-2010

Mark the day - 27th January 2010. That's when a group of eight intrepid - and perhaps slightly batty - gamers decided to play FIFA 10 for 24 hours straight in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record.

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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