Today was footie day at GameSpot HQ, as developers from EA Canada came by to show off two of the company’s big soccer releases for this year: 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa and the latest edition of the Ultimate Team feature for last year’s FIFA 10. I’ve got some thoughts and observations on both …
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Embroidery Machine
Embroidery machines, also known as the embroidery machine. Embroidery machine, literally a look I think we should all understand that the embroidery machine, embroidery machine or embroidery machine, which is the literal meaning, in the beginning out of hand embroidery embroidery, when the embroidery machine in fact the so-called not the true meaning of the …
2010 FIFA World Cup Hands-On
As certain as night follows day, it was a sure thing that EA Sports would announce a World Cup game in time for this year’s South African tournament. After all, FIFA 10 is now within touching distance of selling 10 million copies, making it one of the most successful games in EA Sports’ history. So …
Football: Keane move concludes recession-hit transfer window
A year after returning to Spurs from Liverpool, Keane, who had fallen behind Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe in the White Hart Lane pecking order, moved north in search of first-team football with the decision made easier for him by Tottenham’s decision to sign Eidur Gudjohnsen, a similar style of player, on loan from Monaco, …
Sami people celebrate National Day
February 6th commemorates the date in 1917 where the first joint Sami congress was held in Trondheim, Norway. This congress represented the first time that both Norwegian and Swedish Sami had come together across their borders to work together in finding solutions for common problems. The resolution for the 6th of February celebrations was officially …
Chelsea 2-4 Manchester City – as it happened
Preamble John Terry got us into this mess by eschewing a simple handshake and choosing instead to sate his grubby urges by irrevocably damaging the life of a perfectly decent human being and also a small child; as a consequence we now have the vaguely farcical scenario of a significant football match – Chelsea go …
Microsoft vs. the Zombie Hordes
Microsoft did its best Woody Harrelson impression this week and set out to bag some zombies. The zombies we’re talking about here are PCs infected with malware. The bad guys spread the malware around and then remotely control victims’ computers as part of a botnet that can do stuff like send out spam email or …
Manchester City, greatest in the world? No way
An ill-advised soccer boast was made recently in a New York barby the chief executive of newly rich club Manchester City. Merrilycounting entire farms of chickens before they hatch, Garry Cookdidn’t even look like he’d been drinking.“This football club is going to be, without doubt, the biggestand the best football club in the world,” Cook …
World Cup trophy arrives in City
The FIFA World Cup Trophy arrived in Viet Nam on a charter plane that landed at HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport on Monday. The famous icon from the sport’s world will be in the country for three days. The trophy has been awarded to the winners of the World Cup since 1974. The trophy …
101 World Culture Shocks
Sandals made from donated condoms in India, compensated dating in Japan, English stag nights in Eastern Europe – the world is as crazy as ever.World culture becomes increasingly homogenized with each passing year but there’s still enough diverse instances to prove that ancient anthropological truth best summarized by Obelix: these humans are crazy.Note: where sources …