Monday, July 6, 2015
FIFA 16 Cover boy Lionel Messi edges Cristiano Ronaldo as top-rated player
Lionel Messi may have lost out on a Copa America title over the weekend, but the Barcelona man and cover boy of EA Sports' "FIFA 16" was able to edge out Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo as the No. 1 rated player in the game, according to mmobeys.com.www.gmfifa.com
"FIFA 16" won't be in stores until September, but the video game franchise gave its fans a teaser by releasing the ratings of Barcelona and Real Madrid players on Monday, with Messi, Ronaldo and Andres Iniesta the only players with a rating of 90 or higher. While we have a look at both squads, let's keep in mind that we're still in summer transfer window, so club rosters could change by the time the game is launched.
"FIFA 16" released the ratings of 13 Barcelona players, and averaged an overall rating of 86, while Real Madrid featured 19 players and averaged an overall rating of 82.8. Seems like Barcelona--fresh off clinching the European Treble--have the advantage over their Spanish rivals.www.gofifacoins.net
Messi is on the cover of the game for the fourth consecutive year, but will be joined by two players regionally via an online vote, which ended Sunday. EA Sports will announce the cover stars for each region on Wednesday. For the first time, the franchise will include women's soccer teams, meaning fans of the US women's national team--fresh off its third World Cup title--will get to play as Carli Lloyd, and try to recreate that goal she scored from the halfway mark.
In games like these I am a chronic hoarder. I take everything…at least until I figure out what's worth taking, keeping, and selling, and what's best left where it's found. In every Elder Scrolls and Fallout game by Bethesda, I've become over encumbered within the first hour or so of beginning my game. That's how bad it is. I can't help it; even if I sell things for one or two coins/bottlecaps, it's a bit of profit to get things rolling until I get deeper in and start really finding the good stuff worth keeping and selling.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
FIFA 15 Vs.PES 2015: 10 Key Aspects Reviewed And Compared
The ball floats through the air like a majestic bird in mid flight, 80,000 fans transfixed on its spinning movement. It falls on the chest of a burly centre forward who takes the pace off with an immaculate first touch, spins and recycles the ball out wide to his overlapping left full back who hits it first time. The thumping thud unleashed creates an unstoppable pile-driver that nearly rips through the net.
The crowd erupts in a chorus of boos and cheers. This is football.
For years, football games have lay stagnant in a self-induced coma. Konami, the once untouchable football simulation kings have struggled with mediocrity ever since the dawn of the seventh generation of consoles, and if you were lucky enough to enjoy their PS2 golden era, it's extremely hard not to reminisce about the glory days that fans enjoyed for years.
Truth be told, the magic of football has been lost with the divide between football purists and casual fans closing and unfortunately blending to form an uneasy hybrid in both series, FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer.
With a mixture of great, good and abysmal offerings from both sides, football games were starting to become tedious for fans. PES 2015 has transformed Konami's fortunes for the future of the series while EA have finally started to sort out the bug-infested mess that was FIFA 15 with some patches.
Both games have their flaws but finally, the playing field has been levelled with PES now a serious contender amongst football fans. It might be hard to separate the two games, but that's where this list comes in.
The crowd erupts in a chorus of boos and cheers. This is football.
For years, football games have lay stagnant in a self-induced coma. Konami, the once untouchable football simulation kings have struggled with mediocrity ever since the dawn of the seventh generation of consoles, and if you were lucky enough to enjoy their PS2 golden era, it's extremely hard not to reminisce about the glory days that fans enjoyed for years.
Truth be told, the magic of football has been lost with the divide between football purists and casual fans closing and unfortunately blending to form an uneasy hybrid in both series, FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer.
With a mixture of great, good and abysmal offerings from both sides, football games were starting to become tedious for fans. PES 2015 has transformed Konami's fortunes for the future of the series while EA have finally started to sort out the bug-infested mess that was FIFA 15 with some patches.
Both games have their flaws but finally, the playing field has been levelled with PES now a serious contender amongst football fans. It might be hard to separate the two games, but that's where this list comes in.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Popular World of Warcraft Bot Creators Planning Comeback
The creators of HonorBuddy, a popular World of Warcraft bot that was recently detected by Blizzard, is planning to bring the service back to life.
HonorBuddy allows players to collect honor in PvP without actually engaging anyone and requires no input from the player.
"We will soon release Honorbuddy again," staff member "Bossland" said in a post on the official Honorbuddy forum. "Again, we will give no guarantee and we have never given a guarantee, that our software is immune to detection or bans."
Honorbuddy speculated that its client was detected via "malware-type hidden software," which scanned and found computers that were running software that violated the World of Warcraft's terms of service.
Bossland said that they expect to bring Honorbuddy back by the end of the week, but it doesn't seem like they have quite yet.
Honorbuddy also disputed Blizzard's claim that over 100,000 World of Warcraft account were banned during the ban wave on May 13. "there has never been that many active Honorbuddy users," they said.
Outside of World of Warcraft, Blizzard is gearing up to launch a new MOBA called Heroes of the Storm, which is pitched as a competitive online game in the same vein as League of Legends or DotA 2, but said to be more approachable.
It is also working on a team-based shooter called Overwatch, which it has described as a "pick-up-and-play" FPS. Find out more about the game in GameSpot's in-depth report on Overwatch's characters and gameplay.
HonorBuddy allows players to collect honor in PvP without actually engaging anyone and requires no input from the player.
"We will soon release Honorbuddy again," staff member "Bossland" said in a post on the official Honorbuddy forum. "Again, we will give no guarantee and we have never given a guarantee, that our software is immune to detection or bans."
Honorbuddy speculated that its client was detected via "malware-type hidden software," which scanned and found computers that were running software that violated the World of Warcraft's terms of service.
Bossland said that they expect to bring Honorbuddy back by the end of the week, but it doesn't seem like they have quite yet.
Honorbuddy also disputed Blizzard's claim that over 100,000 World of Warcraft account were banned during the ban wave on May 13. "there has never been that many active Honorbuddy users," they said.
Outside of World of Warcraft, Blizzard is gearing up to launch a new MOBA called Heroes of the Storm, which is pitched as a competitive online game in the same vein as League of Legends or DotA 2, but said to be more approachable.
It is also working on a team-based shooter called Overwatch, which it has described as a "pick-up-and-play" FPS. Find out more about the game in GameSpot's in-depth report on Overwatch's characters and gameplay.
Monday, May 18, 2015
FIFA 15 Title Updates 3 and 4
Title update 3 for Xbox 360 and PS3 is rolling out today and includes the following fixes:
- Added the MLS expansion teams Orlando City and New York City FC to the “Rest of the World” league for Kick-Off and Online Matches.
- Stability improvements to Online Friendlies, Kick-Off, Co-Op Seasons, EASFC Match Day Challenges and FUT Friendly Seasons
- Names of scouted players in Career Mode are now more reflective of their country of origin
- Improved ‘Compare Price’ functionality in FIFA Ultimate Team when comparing prices for consumables
- Improvements to the Transfer Market search functionality in FIFA Ultimate Team
In addition to that, patch number 4 is also going to be pushed out to Xbox One, PS4 and PC users today too, the fix list is similar but includes some VP and player career fixes too:
- Added the MLS expansion teams Orlando City and New York City FC to the “Rest of the World” league for Kick-Off and Online Matches.
- Stability improvements to EASFC Match Day Challenges, Pro Clubs, and Online Seasons.
- Fixed stability issue around requesting a substitution in Player Career.
- Addressed issue where some players were not able to unlock certain boot packs for their Virtual Pro.
- Names of scouted players in Career Mode are now more reflective of their country of origin.
- Stability improvements to Friendly Seasons in FIFA Ultimate Team Seasons.
- Improved ‘Compare Price’ functionality in FIFA Ultimate Team when comparing prices for consumables.
At the foot of the patch notes is an intriguing line that notifies us of maintenance coming later today, "Furthermore, there will be a maintenance period this evening as we prepare for an important change coming to FIFA Ultimate Team."
- Added the MLS expansion teams Orlando City and New York City FC to the “Rest of the World” league for Kick-Off and Online Matches.
- Stability improvements to Online Friendlies, Kick-Off, Co-Op Seasons, EASFC Match Day Challenges and FUT Friendly Seasons
- Names of scouted players in Career Mode are now more reflective of their country of origin
- Improved ‘Compare Price’ functionality in FIFA Ultimate Team when comparing prices for consumables
- Improvements to the Transfer Market search functionality in FIFA Ultimate Team
In addition to that, patch number 4 is also going to be pushed out to Xbox One, PS4 and PC users today too, the fix list is similar but includes some VP and player career fixes too:
- Added the MLS expansion teams Orlando City and New York City FC to the “Rest of the World” league for Kick-Off and Online Matches.
- Stability improvements to EASFC Match Day Challenges, Pro Clubs, and Online Seasons.
- Fixed stability issue around requesting a substitution in Player Career.
- Addressed issue where some players were not able to unlock certain boot packs for their Virtual Pro.
- Names of scouted players in Career Mode are now more reflective of their country of origin.
- Stability improvements to Friendly Seasons in FIFA Ultimate Team Seasons.
- Improved ‘Compare Price’ functionality in FIFA Ultimate Team when comparing prices for consumables.
At the foot of the patch notes is an intriguing line that notifies us of maintenance coming later today, "Furthermore, there will be a maintenance period this evening as we prepare for an important change coming to FIFA Ultimate Team."
Saturday, October 4, 2014
FIFA 15 kicks Destiny from top spot in UK Xtmmo news
Its the post-FIFA portion of the year on the Chart-Track UK sales charts. Historically this means well likely have EA Sports FIFA XX at the top until Activisions Call of Duty shows up, but theres always the possibility for Just Dance or a Zumba game to mess with that.
Anyway, FIFA 15 is out now and it accounted for 80 percent of all software sales and 87 percent of all revenue for the week. Chart-Track estimates if one were to align all the week-one FIFA sales for every platform (it was staggered last year), FIFA 15 unit sales would be flat year-over-year, with a 6 percent revenue increase. The Xbox One and PS4 versions account for 54 percent of unit sales.
The only new release last week to break the Top 40 is Fantasy Life, the Level-5 (Prof. Layton, Dark Cloud) RPG, which debuted in the eight spot. The UK top ten can be found after the break.
Top 10 UK Software Sales (All Formats); week ending September 27:
FIFA 15
Destiny
Disney Infinity 2.0
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Watch Dogs
The Sims 4
Fantasy Life
Minecraft PS3 Edition
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
Friday, July 4, 2014
FIFA 15, UFC paid Xbox One demos a 'system error,' says EA rep
Xbox One users sensed an apocalypse when they found the system's online store charging $5/£4 for demos of EA games FIFA 14 and EA Sports UFC this morning. However, according to an EA Australia representative, panic stations needn't be manned just yet as the listings are the result of a system error.
Destiny For PS3 representative told Polygon that the demos should reset to free within the next 24 hours. The representative also noted the error isn't on the PlayStation Network, and we've verified the demos remain free on PS4. When we approached an EA UK representative he wasn't able to offer official comment at the time of publication.
A system error isn't hard to believe considering prior to today the FIFA 14 demo had been free for more than half a year. Also, it's more than a bit odd for it be free on one system and paid on another. In any case, if for some mad reason you're thinking of purchasing one of the demos, wait it out and hopefully we'll get further word from EA soon. Also, if this is an error let's hope EA and Microsoft will be issuing out refunds.
Update: An EA UK representative confirmed to Joystiq the priced demos were "due to a technical error," which has now been corrected. We've confirmed both the UFC demo and FIFA 14 Ultimate Team Coins demo have been reverted to free.
Destiny For PS3 representative told Polygon that the demos should reset to free within the next 24 hours. The representative also noted the error isn't on the PlayStation Network, and we've verified the demos remain free on PS4. When we approached an EA UK representative he wasn't able to offer official comment at the time of publication.
A system error isn't hard to believe considering prior to today the FIFA 14 demo had been free for more than half a year. Also, it's more than a bit odd for it be free on one system and paid on another. In any case, if for some mad reason you're thinking of purchasing one of the demos, wait it out and hopefully we'll get further word from EA soon. Also, if this is an error let's hope EA and Microsoft will be issuing out refunds.
Update: An EA UK representative confirmed to Joystiq the priced demos were "due to a technical error," which has now been corrected. We've confirmed both the UFC demo and FIFA 14 Ultimate Team Coins demo have been reverted to free.
World of Warcraft players reach gold limit cap
It's simply un-American! The commie sympathizers at Blizzard have apparently placed financial restrictions on the amount of gold players can have in World of Warcraft. Wow Items Online Store reports two players have reached the anti-capitalist limit of 214,748 gold, 36 silver, 48 copper and that's the end of the road for them. After that they are not entitled to the cash they have earned by the sweat of their own fingertips.
Without getting into an Andrew Ryan diatribe, RS 2007 Gold Store the limit is apparently just some arbitrary number ... actually, Ross "über math nerd" Miller says, "It's not arbitrary, it's 2 to the power of 31, which is a 32-bit integer." We're not sure how Blizzard feels about the cap, but we're certain the citizens of Azeroth can't be too happy about "the man" keeping them from living out their financial fantasies.
Without getting into an Andrew Ryan diatribe, RS 2007 Gold Store the limit is apparently just some arbitrary number ... actually, Ross "über math nerd" Miller says, "It's not arbitrary, it's 2 to the power of 31, which is a 32-bit integer." We're not sure how Blizzard feels about the cap, but we're certain the citizens of Azeroth can't be too happy about "the man" keeping them from living out their financial fantasies.
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