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:
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.
Many thanks to all those that participated in the first Closed Beta testing last month. The FIFA Online team has been hard at work on the game and, today, have launched Closed Beta 2.
A brand-new FIFA game was announced recently. A FREE, fully-featured FIFA game, playable on just about any PC. For free. Did we mention the free thing already? And we want you to give it a go.
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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