PC cleans up at the Golden Joystick Awards
Whoa. When did PC gaming become so damn… award-winning?
PC has cleaned up at the Golden Joystick awards with a wealth of exclusives. And the non PC exclusive games that took an award? We get to play most of those too, only more anti aliased, and in a better resolution.
The best bit? Gamers voted for these. Real-life gamers with strong opinons. A record-breaking 2.06 million of them in fact. Well done PC gaming community – you rose to the challenge and pwned.
Click through for the full results. Don’t agree with some of the winners? It’s time for a furious debate. See you in the comments.
Fifa 12 sells 3.2 million in one week
Fifa 12 has only been out for week, and already 3.2 million own it, according to word from EA, who say it’s “the biggest launch in the history of sports videogames.” Here’s another factoid: Fifa 12 has sold 23% more than Fifa 11 in its first week. And another: Fifa 12 is the biggest launch of the year so far. Blam!
It is rather good. We’ve been playing it all week and STILL haven’t managed to score with the goalkeeper, and for some reason every game I play with Owen ends in a nil-nil draw. Why? Probably because we’re defensive maestros, or incapable of putting together an attack without making our players fall over. This year’s Fifa is a big step forward on PC especially. We finally get the fully featured console build, complete with upgraded animations and the Impact Engine. If you want to try it out, check out the Fifa 12 demo. Have you been playing Fifa 12? Tell us your thoughts!
Fifa 12 demo out now
For the first time in years, the new Fifa on PC gets all the same bells and whistles as the console versions. That means we’ll get the crunching tackles enabled by the Player Impact Engine. You can see the new tech in action right now, in the 1.5 GB Fifa 12 demo, which offers 3 minute matches in Man City’s Etihad arena. Arsenal, Man City, Barcelona, Milan, Marseille, and Borussia Dortmund are all playable, and the demo includes a series of tutorials to teach you the finer arts of tackling horribly late and mangling up your opponent. Fifa 12 is out on September 27 in the US, and September 30 in Europe.
Fifa 11 goals of the season video has expert dribbling and overhead kicks
With the Fifa 11 ‘season’ winding down in preparation for Fifa 12 EA sports have put up some of their favourite user uploaded goals of the game. As we told you before EA claim Fifa 12 will get the full list of features on PC next year, so we look forward to seeing a lot more of these coming from PC gamers.
FIFA 12 will be “as good on PC as it is on console”
FIFA eh? It’s a sore point for PC gaming football fans. Especially when they’re told the PC version won’t be as hot as the console counterparts. As Rich mentioned in his FIFA 11 review: “It’s hard not to be jealous of FIFA 11′s flashier console cousin.”
But it’s all change on the FIFA front. Eurogamer report that executive producer Kaz Makita has been bigging up our version of the ball-kicking sim, saying: “This is the moment all PC gamers have been waiting for, as they are finally going to fully experience the award-winning FIFA gameplay on their preferred platform.” Contrary to popular belief we are getting the Player Impact Engine – that’s the new tech that makes fatter players heavier and thinner players more flimsy.
Click through for the first PC screenshot and gameplay trailer.
Fifa 12 screenshots released, PC won’t get “impact engine”
The first official trailer for Fifa 12 shows off the “impact engine,” a new physics system designed to render collisions and injuries with incredible accuracy, improving the realism of tackling, and making the game look more believable. Sadly it looks as though Fifa 12 will be lagging behind consoles yet again because, as Eurogamer report “the Impact Engine will only power the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game.”
It took a long time for the PC version of previous Fifa games to finally get the upgraded engine first introduced on consoles. Though it wasn’t on a par with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, Significant improvements were made in Fifa 11. It looks as though PC will get a second rate version of the footballing sim again this year. EA have also released some new Fifa 12 screens. You’ll find them embedded belatedly below.
Fifa 12 trailer leak shows “impact engine” in action
A leaked and slightly fuzzy chunk of in-game Fifa 12 footage has found its way to VG247, showing offthe improved animation system, and the vaunted “impact engine” that promises to deliver bone crunching collisions with accurate injury after-effects on players.
Skip to the five minute point to get straight to the good bits, which feature famous footballers falling on their millionaire faces. if you’re not a football fan, it’s worth nothing that DICE are borrowing their animation tech from EA’s sports games for Battlefield 3. Imagine the same realistic collisions applied to grenade blasts and bullet wounds.
Fifa 12 first details reveal stronger players and revamped defense
Details of the next Fifa game have appeared in the latest issue of OXM, outlining revamped controls for defenders and describing the new “impact engine,” which will take into account the size and strength of players in tussles, and calculate injuries more accurately.
UK Christmas bonanza – Day 8: Win a 16-game EA Store bundle
There’s only one thing better than a huge bundle of great games, and that’s a free bundle of great games. You know what’s even better than that? Five free bundles of great games. By stunning coincidence that’s exactly the number of EA Store game bundles we have to give away today. There’s more than £1700 worth of games up for grabs, so read on for a chance to get your hands on Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the Dragon Age 2 Digital Deluxe Edition, both Mass Effect games, Crysis, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and more.
PC Gamer UK October issue – Portal 2
PC Gamer 218 has already emerged through the letterbox-shaped portals in our subscribers’ doors. You can now buy it via the newsagent-shaped portals in your town or city. Do you see the rhythm I’m building here? This month we sent Tom to Valve in a plane-shaped portal, and he came back not just with the first information on Portal 2′s brand new co-op, but interviews with Gabe Newell about Valve’s follies, future and Left 4 Dead’s fairy origins. Oh my.
