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FIFA 13 Preview and Screenshots

FIFA 13 captures all the drama and unpredictability of real-world football, and is driven by five game-changing innovations which revolutionize artificial intelligence, dribbling, ball control and physical play. It is the largest and deepest feature set in the history of the franchise. These innovations create a true battle for possession across the entire pitch, deliver…

How Football Manager can improve your FIFA gameplay – and vice versa

The two most popular football simulation games – Football Manager and FIFA, offer very contrasting experiences to football fans. And yet you will find that there is plenty to learn from one game that can be applied to the other, and vice versa. Despite the current trend of simulating real life matches, you’re not going…

Football Manager Handheld for Android

Sports Interactive and SEGA have announced that Football Manager Handheld for Android will be released on Wednesday, April 11th. Football Manager Handheld, which is already a massive success on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, has been designed to bring all of the highs and lows of the greatest job on earth to mobile devices, and…

Online Soccer Manager Review: can you be the next Pep Guardiola?

We have all been there; ‘if only he’d played three in the centre of the park instead of two we would have dominated possession’. Everyone can be a master tactician or manager from your armchair when watching your favourite team, but now the chance to prove your football knowledge and tactical nous has arrived in…

FIFA Street review: can you do better than Lionel Messi?

The new FIFA Street from EA Sports goes where no football simulation game has gone before – delivering a realistic, street-football experience to both the casual and the avid gaming fans. FIFA 12 last year broke new ground in ball control mechanics and football realism, and FIFA Street builds on that by letting players use…

PES 12 Review

Visually stunning and superbly realistic, Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 is a welcome upgrade and like last year, PES is finally moving in the right direction again to be the best football playing experience around. No discussion of PES 12 can even start before it’s compared to FIFA 12 as a benchmark, similar to how Championship…

Review: Why Football Manager 2012 Will Rock Your World

The first impression you get while playing Football Manager 2012 is how it’s improved as an imitation of the real thing – a genuine simulation of what it means to be a football manager, inasmuch as you can simulate the experience digitally. Granted, there are no fans screaming pedophile chants at you, the BBC isn’t…

Win a free copy of Football Manager 2012

To celebrate the release of the new Football Manager (2012), Soccerlens is giving away one (1) free copy of FM12 to our newsletter subscribers. The back story: As every year, Soccerlens pre-ordered Football Manager (through Steam) to ensure that we would get our hands on the game as soon as possible. As luck would have…

Football Manager: Advanced Stats, Live Odds and Scouting+

Football Manager will be released on 21 October 20112 – here’s a look at how Miles Jacobson and co. can make the game even better for the millions of football fans who religiously play the game every year. So we know there won’t any players tweeting from within Football Manager 2012, nor will you see…

Football Manager 2012: Miles Jacobson Interview

Football Manager 2012 is due to hit the shelves before Christmas, and our good friends over at Football Manager Stories have just snagged an exclusive interview with Miles Jacobson (OBE), Studio Director at Sports Interactive, the company that develops Football Manager. Here are some quotes from the interview: Johnny Karp: I recently read that, in…