Articles by Tom Gerken
Massive football fan with a love of all things video games. Here to lay the talk down on all things football related; especially FIFA, Pro Evo and Football Manager.
EA Sports have today announced that when FIFA Street launches on March 13th 2012, it will come with a new feature called ‘the Street Network’.
The feature is intended to increase competition between friends – as …
2011 was a great year for games in general, and Soccer Games are no exception. Following on from the last week’s first half of the Soccer Gaming Awards, here is part 2! Enjoy.
Most Replayable Game
If …
2011 has been and gone, which means it’s time for the inaugural Soccer Gaming Awards (presented by yours truly). As ever, comments are hugely appreciated and this is all up for debate – so if …
In short, what you’re about to witness is Tom from Kasabian playing a game of football against England’s own Darren Bent. Sound unfair? It would be, except for the fact that they’re using tricked-up Xperia …
Every year, a new football manager. Every year, new players to scout. But who are the best ones to go for? Which players should you go completely out of your way to grab? This is …
Those of you who know me will be aware that one of my favourite games from my youth was Premier Manager 98 – in fact, I even wrote an article about it in June. So …
There have been many attempts at making a successful football game for Nintendo’s portable systems. For a while now, the limitations of technology have held back most developers, either forcing them into making an …
For a long time now, it has been Sega’s prerogative to release Sports Interactive’s acclaimed Football Manager series on a variety of systems other than the PC. Efforts were made to branch out to home …
The Wii has never been well-known for having excellent versions of third-party titles, and the FIFA series is one that has never really tried to rock the boat. A separate development team, worse hardware …
To go back to a wrestling analogy I used before, this is the Wrestlemania to PES 2012’s Starrcade. Both are classics, both will be remembered until they’re replaced in twelve months, and both are out …
Everyone loves FIFA, but not everyone loves Rooney. So what respite is there for those of us who just detest having our covers garnished with his face year upon year?
Fortunately, EA have you covered – …
With every year, EA have released their Ultimate Team expansion package earlier and earlier. This year, for the first time ever, you have the chance to play Ultimate Team before the game itself is even …
Finally, GAMEfest has been and gone. It was a new gaming convention created by the UK GAME chain of stores, held in Birmingham. Tickets were widely available but many sold out, leaving us with quite …
With FIFA 12 just weeks away, EA have released the official demo into the wild. And my goodness, is it ever something. With the latest instalment in the series fans have been promised an overhaul; …
Every once in a while a game comes along that attempts to challenge our assumptions of its genre. That game is New Star Soccer.
According to the creators, New Star Soccer 5 is a game where …
In professional wrestling, the WWE pay-per-view that ends the month of January begins what is referred to as ‘The Road to Wrestlemania’, essentially a 2-month period of matches and promos which act as an extended …
This isn’t change, this is new. Electronic Arts have announced a new program for five EA Sports titles, one of which being FIFA. But is it worth it? Well, first thing’s first. If you live …
Over the past four years Pro Evolution Soccer has been all about Leo Messi. Press releases would feature his name, events would feature his videos and the man himself would even appear for occasional demonstrations. …
The big news coming out of this weekend from both EA and Konami relates to control schemes. Specifically, both teams have pulled aces from their sleeves and revealed changes that will undoubtedly set them further …
EA have published some rather nifty screenshots of the FIFA 12 career mode, and we have them too! Also included in this article: Heavy speculation as to what these images may mean for the next …
