{"id":6542,"date":"2010-06-16T17:10:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T07:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2010-06-16T17:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T07:10:52","slug":"ea-sports-fifa-superstars-for-facebook-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=6542","title":{"rendered":"EA SPORTS FIFA SUPERSTARS FOR FACEBOOK NOW AVAILABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">First Game From EA\/Playfish Partnership &#8211; Brings World\u2019s Most Popular Football Videogame Franchise to Millions of Fans<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><strong>16 June 2010, Australia <\/strong>\u2013 Electronic Arts have announced that EA SPORTS\u2122 has created its most popular franchise for the hundreds of millions of football fans on social gaming sites just in time for the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup\u2122.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Developed by Playfish, EA SPORTS\u2122 <em>FIFA Superstars<\/em> is a free-to-play^ social game that has launched on Facebook\u00ae. It will be available on additional social networks in the future.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cWe are leveraging our football expertise with the experience of our partners at Playfish to create a casual football game for a broader audience,\u201d said Matt Bilbey, Vice President of Football, EA SPORTS. The EA SPORTS FIFA franchise has sold over 90 million units lifetime and <em>FIFA 10<\/em> is the highest rated* sports videogame on the PlayStation\u00ae3 and Xbox 360\u00ae in the world.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cFootball fans have a voracious appetite for their sport so we are creating interactive football entertainment in new ways and on new platforms to meet the interest,\u201d continued Bilbey. \u201cWe are excited to broaden our reach from the console that touches our core audience of 10-20 million fans to the hundreds of millions of football fans and casual gamers using social networks.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><em>EA SPORTS FIFA Superstars<\/em> is the first social game developed through the EA\/Playfish partnership and the first sports game developed by Playfish, who leads social gaming in innovation and creativity with award-winning category defining games designed for friends to play together. Playfish hits include Pet Society and Restaurant City.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>On the eve of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, we\u2019re introducing into social gaming an entirely new category and game play style built around the most popular sports franchise in the world,\u201d said Kristian Segerstrale, vice president and general manager of Playfish. \u201c<em>EA SPORTS FIFA Superstars <\/em>captures all the magic and passion of the beautiful game, allowing players to build and manage a team of the world\u2019s greatest footballers and compete against their friends. \u00a0We\u2019re looking forward to working with our players and evolving the game in many exciting ways through the FIFA World Cup and beyond.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><em>FIFA Superstars<\/em> will leverage EA SPORTS football licenses for 30 leagues, 500 teams and 15,000 players. Fans will be able to create a fantasy club side by collecting or trading players, challenging friends head-to-head and competing in leagues, or searching out broader leader boards to compete against the best. To capitalise on the worldwide football fever driven by the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa\u2122, players can predict the outcomes of games in the 2010 FIFA World Cup\u2122 to win valuable in-game coins. Screenshots of EA SPORTS FIFA Superstars can be downloaded at <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{912E957C-4F18-4B24-83B9-FA97839F0302}mid:\/\/00000052\/!x-usc:http:\/\/info.ea.com\/\">http:\/\/info.ea.com<\/a>. For more information visit <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{912E957C-4F18-4B24-83B9-FA97839F0302}mid:\/\/00000052\/!x-usc:http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/fifasuperstars\/\">http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/fifasuperstars\/<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">For more information about EA SPORTS, including news, video, blogs, forums and game apps, please visit www.easports.com to connect, share and compete.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">^ Internet connection and a Facebook account required<br \/>\n*Source www.metacritic.com, June 5, 2010<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Game From EA\/Playfish Partnership &#8211; Brings World\u2019s Most Popular Football Videogame Franchise to Millions of Fans 16 June 2010, Australia \u2013 Electronic Arts have announced that EA SPORTS\u2122 has created its most popular franchise for the hundreds of millions of football fans on social gaming sites just in time for the start of the<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=6542\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}