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In many ways, the presence of FIFA is a good barometer of a platform’s relevance. When EA stopped launching versions of its world-beating football series on the PS Vita and 3DS in 2015, while focusing more and more attention on its Ultimate Team-based free-to-play mobile version, it spoke volumes about …

For the most part, E3 press-conferences are crowd pleasing carnivals of great spectacle and grandeur, packed with memorable moments designed to surprise and entertain with the production value of a broadway show. They are also, however, public events streamed live to every corner of the globe; a feat of technical …

The old season isn’t quite over yet, but you can already start looking forward to the new one with PES 2018 today confirmed for a 14 September release. Konami’s latest festival of goals, saves and Neymar-top-off celebrations is bound for PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC – the …

Non-Argentine football fans of a certain vintage are well used to having their hearts broken by Diego Maradona – but for Konami the aftermath might be a financial, rather than metaphysical, blow. The thunder-tempered midfielder-turned-coach features in PES 2017 (opens in new tab)’s excellent MyClub mode, but has claimed on …

Multiplayer games – the big ones, the seemingly-every-person-on-earth-is-playing games – have a much smaller window of entry today than they did before online play overtook in-person play. When Rocket League (opens in new tab) hit in 2015, it went from fun little PS4 curiosity to big money competition juggernaut almost …

If you’ve been following GR+’s expert advice to making coins in Ultimate Team (opens in new tab), then you’re already a pro at FIFA 17 (opens in new tab)’s Squad Building Challenges. But you’re also likely turning the air blue at the Palermo challenge, within Calcio A. Its 3-4-3 formation …

If there’s a lesson to be learned from the multiple recent successes in Foxborough, Massachusetts – in addition to confirmation that, unlike in Star Wars, the evil empire always wins – it’s that a single good season is never good enough. Now for the New England Patriots, read John Madden …

While many see wrestling as loud Americans shouting at each other in their underpants, the first ‘W’ in ‘WWE’ stands for ‘World’, and it’s more global than you know. Following the arrival of the latest instalment, WWE 2K17, we go around the world in 80 graze. Canada – Hart House, …

Bet you, like GR+, figured that after expanding from football to basketball and hockey, there wasn’t anywhere else for Rocket League (opens in new tab) to go. Well, everyone figured wrong. Because it’s now headed to… outer space. No, this isn’t April 1st. A new update (opens in new tab) …

Many fans argue that it’s impossible to have a five-star wrestling match; the same could be said of a five-star wrestling game. That’s partly because they want an experience which feels like wrestling, but plays like a competitive fighter – a false hope given that in reality combatants work to …