Fifa Off the Bench

FIFA Online: Join In!

by Romily Broad
02-February-2010

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.

Read More >

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.

Read More >

FUT 10 Ultimate Team Blog #3: Maintenance

by Adam Shaikh
29-January-2010

I'm here to fill you in on a few more details about FIFA 10 Ultimate Team. We're now really close to finishing and the team have been frantically working at the game, poking and prodding at its innards to see if it does anything strange. So far, it's looking good.

Read More >

FIFA 10 Club Dev Team Challenge

by Yaw Obiri-Yeboah
21-January-2010

The FIFA 10 development team have something to prove. Their club team EA SPORTS FC lost all three of their club games to top rank clubs Rocksteady FC and Goldenballz FC. They're not happy about it one bit and they're back once again to prove to everyone in the community that they're a force to be reckoned with. Will they be able to get any redemption or will they be tasting bitter defeat yet again? Tomorrow we'll all find out.

Read More >

FIFA 10 Ultimate Team Blog #2: Building Your Ultimate Team

by John Shepherd
19-January-2010

My name is John Shepherd, and I've been the producer in charge of the front end (menus, UI, look and feel of the screens, etc.) for this year's Ultimate Team. I can't share everything about the game right now, but it's exciting to be able to share some new info with everyone and there will be lots more detail coming in the next few weeks.

Read More >

EA SPORTS FC Versus YOU

by Romily Broad
19-January-2010

In December 2009, a selection of the guys behind FIFA 10 got together as EA SPORTS FC and took on Pro Club Championship teams from the community. The results were... undistinguished, at least for the guys who made the game. But they have no intention of letting that happen again.

Read More >

About The Bloggers

David Rutter is the Producer for FIFA 10 on PS3 and Xbox 360. A lifelong football fan, David supports Leicester and Hitchin Town. In addition to playing FIFA, Rutter also enjoys CoD4, GRAW, and NHL.
Aaron McHardy is responsible for gameplay design on FIFA 10. He did that on FIFA 08 and 09, 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 an Associate Producer on FIFA 10 and looks after the front-end design, specifically for things like Manager Mode and Live Season. 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 EA SPORTS Football World.
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 the force behind Be A Pro Seasons in FIFA 09, and is now Online Producer for FIFA 10 on PS3 and Xbox 360. Christophe is a fanatical supporter of his hometown, Metz.
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.
 
Advertisement