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Konami has announced it will stream its pre-E3 presenataion, in which Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, Metal Gear Solid 5, Pro Evolution Soccer, and a number of “additional key announcements” will be highlighted.

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Konami has struck a deal with the Asian Football Confederation to bring the AFC Champions League into future Pro Evolution Soccer games. The Asian league will appear in a dedicated game mode, with players able to select one of the league’s 32 teams and battle it out for the cup. Both the AFC and Konami expressed their glowing admiration for each other and the PES franchise in a press release. The AFC draws on 46 member associations, and is itself one of the six global members of FIFA.

The PES 2013 demo arrived online today, and VG247′s Sam Clay did his best trying beat the wily Italian football team, one Balotelli at a time. How did Sam fair? In his own words, he’s rather “terrible” at it.

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Responding to Pro Evolution Soccer lead Jon Murphy’s allegations of copy-catting, key EA Sports representatives have had only warmth and gratitude for the FIFA rival.

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Konami’s Jon Murphy seems fed up with the perception of Pro Evolution Soccer as second-best to EA Sports’ FIFA, when the latter owes so much to the former.

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EA Sports is yet to officially announce announce that a new installment in the FIFA franchise is in the works for next-gen consoles, but the label’s boss Andrew Wilson has stated that the company is “very well prepared” to go head-to-head with Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer.

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Team PES senior producer Naoya Hatsumi has said at a recent Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 event in Brazil the series will use Kojima’s Fox Engine when it goes next-gen.

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Jon Murphy, PES team leader, has admitted the Pro Evolution Soccer series has “lost ground” to FIFA in the UK, but feels EA’s figures which state it is outselling the Konami franchise 25:1 show “a fair bit of” statistical manipulation.

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Konami has said it doesn’t believe there is a “huge gap,” between its Pro Evolution Soccer series and EA’s FIFA. However, there are current plans at the firm to rebuild the franchise, but don’t look for it soon, as it will be a “long process.”

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Pro Evolution Soccer director Shinji Enomoto has revealed the extreme perfectionism his team brings to development, and commented that the series is not “even close” to capturing the real feel of football.

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Pro Evolution Soccer’s Shingo Takatsuka has confirmed to IGN that Natal and Sony’s wand will be implemented in future editions of the series.

“Up until 2009 we believed all the platforms should have the same controls and features,” he told the site. “That’s no longer the case, because there are specific controllers for different machines, what with Natal and the PlayStation motion sensor system. I cannot say much, but I can say we are looking at integrating those devices into our games very aggressively.”

Konami’s development team also plans to continue listening to PES players, whose feedback helps refine the new iterations of the game.

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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.