They say if the people of China all jumped up and down at the same time, the earth would spin off its axis and shed its oceans to the winds. Football's the only thing in the world that could make people do that. Not even Susan Boyle.
Right then. FIFA Interactive World Cup. Yep, you guessed it, this blog (and subsequent ones) is going to act as the information point for the FIWC activities in the UK.
In this week's FIFA 10 podcast Romily Broad and myself discussed the topic of diving after David N'Gog did his impression of a perfect dying swan in the box against Birmingham and earned Liverpool a penalty.
Welcome to a new thing! It's called The Back Post, it'll happen every week (as long as I'm not on holiday, or in the pub, or something), and it'll serve as a place to splurge a load of updates and links to recap a week in the life of FIFA 10.
The dust has settled on GamesCom, the world's largest games fair. FIFA 10 was one of the biggest draws of the show, and EA SPORTS Football World was there to capture all the action.
Hello everyone, I'm Mike Takla - one of the FIFA 10 360/PS3 Producers - here to tell you about Virtual Pro, one of the new features for this year, as well as give you a quick introduction to our new Clubs feature, the EA SPORTS Pro Club Championship.
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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