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Some of FIFA Street’s features are on the FIFA team’s wishlist, and may be cannibalised for the core franchise.

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EA Sports has announced this morning that Barcelona player Lionel Messi is now the new global face of the FIFA brand.

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Following EA’s announcement of FIFA Street at gamescom, we’ve got the first video of the beautiful game played on the less than beautiful street.

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EA Sports has released a FIFA 12 video featuring Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, otherwise known as Real Madrid footballer Kaka, answering what looks to be fan submitted questions. Apparently, Kaka is very pleased to be one of the cover boys this year for the game. The video is posted below, courtesy of Ve3tro. FIFA 12 is out at the end of September for everything under the sun. PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Origin, Wii, PS2, 3DS, PSP, iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

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EA Sports has launched Season Ticket, which is an annual subscription service for its main sports franchises FIFA, Madden, NHL and Tiger Woods’ PGA Tour.

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A senior EA Sports executive has hinted that a FIFA title will probably release as part of the Wii U’s launch line-up of games when the console debuts sometime next year.

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During its press event at E3 tonight, EA Sports announced Football Club, which promises to “bring the world’s most passionate sports fans together and engage them within the massive FIFA online community.”

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EA Sports boss Peter Moore stepped on stage at the Microsoft E3 press event to announced that four titles from the firm will utilize Kinect.

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EA Sports has announced FIFA 12 for Nintendo 3DS, confirming it’ll feature a new 3D street football mode.

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EA’s announced a massive list of games that it’ll shut down this year, beginning next week with Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II.

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Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has told MCV its F1 series can easily have their own yearly-iterations in a similar fashion to EA’s FIFA.

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EA Sports president Peter Moore has hinted at a digital distribution future for the firm.

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EA Sports president has said the development team for FIFA are “paranoid” to let standards slip, but insists they will never get complacent”.

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EA Sports has announced FIFA Online which will be subscription free.

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David Reeves plays Pro Evolution Soccer over FIFA, he’s told Eurogamer.

“I have to say – and I shouldn’t really say it, because someone from EA’s going to read this – but I guess I played Pro Evo from a way back and I’m stuck to it,” he said.

The bombshell was made in the exec’s final interview before leaving Sony as president.

There’s some funny stuff in there. Hit the link.

God update for the European PSN today. FIFA 09 got its Ultimate Team pack for free, Silent Hill PS1 landed, and Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1 was made available.

Full thing below, courtesy of Joystiq.

Playable Content

• SOCOM Confrontation full game (£19.99)
• PowerUp Forever full game (£6.29)
• Silent Hill PS1 game (£3.99)

Add-on Content

• Call of Duty World At War map pack 1 (£7.99)
• FIFA 09 Ultimate Team pack (free)
• Midnight Club Los Angeles South Central map pack (free)
• Midnight Club Los Angeles South Central premium upgrade (£7.99)
• LittleBigPlanet Killzone 2 costume kit (£2.39)
• High Velocity Bowling “Jill’s Totally Straight” pack (free)
• Street Fighter IV Shadaloo pack (£3.19)
• Rock Band DLC (continued)
• Guitar Hero World Tour DLC (continued)

Videos

• God of War III launch trailer
• FIFA 09 Ultimate Team trailer
• FIFA 09 Ultimate Team tutorial video
• Midnight Club Los Angeles South Central trailer

Themes and Wallpapers

• FIFA 09 Ultimate Team theme (free)
• 2x MotorStorm Pacific Rift themes (free)
• Crash Commando wallpaper (free)

Rock Band DLC

Get the Funk Out 01 3-pack (£2.49)

• “Pick Up the Pieces” – Average White Band (£0.99)
• “Shining Star” – Earth Wind & Fire (£0.99)
• “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine – Pt 1″ – James Brown (£0.99)

Individual songs:

• “Thrash Unreal” – Against Me! (£0.99)
• “All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth” – The New Pornographers (£0.99)
• “Use It” – The New Pornographers (£0.99)
• “Last Resort” – Papa Roach (£0.99)
• “Lifeline” – Papa Roach (£0.99)

Guitar Hero World Tour DLC

• Jimi Hendrix track pack 2 (£4.39)
• European track pack 4 (£4.39)

• “What Have You Done” – Within Temptation (£1.59)
• “Hier Kommt Alex” – Die Toten Hosen (£1.59)
• “Carolina” – M-Clan (£1.59)

PSP Content

• Silent Hill PS1 game (£3.99)
• Resistance Retribution full game (£24.99)
• SOCOM Fireteam Bravo full game (£14.99)
• Twisted Metal: Head On full game (£14.99)
• Splinter Cell Essentials full game (£15.99)
• Everybody’s Golf full game (£14.99)
• Ratchet And Clank: Size Matters full game (£14.99)
• Spinout full game (£7.99)

EA Asia boss Jon Niermann has admitted that revenue for the publisher in the region is lower than target, but has pointed to a heavy release schedule of online game to boost funds.

“It’s nowhere where it needs to be. We need to get that growth significantly higher,” Niermann told the AP.

Asian revenues account for 6 percent of EA’s overall tally, the exec said.

Niermann said EA hopes to increase its market share in Asia by launching more online games, with 12 editions of different games expected to roll out this year.

EA has already launched online versions of FIFA, NBA Street and WAR in the region, with Battlefield Heroes to follow. The online version of Need for Speed, which was developed in Singapore, will launch next year.

More through the link.

Speaking to CVG, PES dev boss Shingo ‘Seabass’ Takatsuka has said that not only does he consider the FIFA engine to be “really superb,” but he’d consider using it for the Konami soccer stalwart, given half the chance.

“I would think about it really seriously because I still believe that EA’s engine and animation is really superb, very good,” he said.

“The modelling of the characters is perhaps not really to my taste actually, so I might not take that part, but seriously, I think their engine and their motion style is really great.”

Blimey. Check out the full interview through the link.

EA has announced its Games Convention line-up revealing that Harmonix’s Rock Band 2 will be shown for the first time.

EA reckons it’s “best ever product line up for European consumers this holiday and in 2009″ and as we’ll be able to confirm that for you when our full coverage gets under way tomorrow.

From the release:

On show in Leipzig are Europe’s best selling franchises and consumer favorites like FIFA, Need For Speed, The Sims and Harry Potter, a wide range of casual and family titles for Nintendo platforms including LITTLEST PET SHOP, Boogie SuperStar, Zubo and MONOPOLY, brand new IP like SimAnimals, Mirror’s Edge, Dead Space, Dragon Age: Origins, Battleforge, Spore, the new MMORPG Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning, and EA partner titles Left 4 Dead from Valve, Rock Band and Rock Band 2 from MTV Games/Harmonix and Crysis Warhead® from Crytek.

Never before has EA had such a diverse and powerful slate of offerings, and it’s been great to see consumer and critical response to our games,” said Jens Uwe Intat, senior EA VP.

“As more and more people come into interactive entertainment, we are ready with the best games in sports, action, casual, horror, simulation, and online. We’ll be bringing more new games to market this year than in our history, and Leipzig is a great European window to showcase those offerings for the broad range of people that love to play them.”

Full thing after the jump.

By Mike Bowden

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So says this. The upcoming EA football game was announced yesterday, but EG’s just confirmed with EA that Nintendo platforms aren’t going to get a look-in. No reason’s been given for the decision, which seem a little off considering a decent FIFA version came out last year. Them’s the breaks.