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With FIFA 10 taking EA’s football series to new critical and commercial heights, the publisher has lashed out at Konami’s rival series Pro Evolution Soccer. PES is struggling like most other non-mainstream franchises,” EA UK’s vice president Keith Ramsdale stated at an EA press event earlier this week, according to …

Though the Xbox 360 traditionally enjoys the greater share of multiplatform title sales, the PS3 has emerged as the clear platform of choice for Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer. The PS3 version of PES 2010, which was released last Friday, accounted for 66 per cent of the game’s overall sales, with …

There were four high-profile new entries in the Top Ten of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, but it was Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 that emerged as the chart victor claiming top spot. In second place is another debutant – Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport 3. The racing …

Publisher Konami has revealed that it has shipped over 3m copies of Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 to retail in preparation for today’s long-awaited release. PES 2010 is Konami’s largest release of the year, and we cannot stress the gratitude for all the input from the enormous PES fan base,” Konami’s …

EA has claimed that FIFA is the ‘undisputed’ No.1 football game on the market – after this year’s iteration surpassed a million UK sales in less than three weeks. FIFA 10 celebrated its third week at No.1 in the ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Chart on Monday – holding off major new …

As retail prepares for tomorrow’s release of Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, Konami has pledged to support the title with free downloadable content going forwards. We really appreciate your help making the best PES yet and we hope you’ll continue to give us great feedback,” the game’s production team stated on …

In a remarkable admission, Konami’s long-time Pro Evolution Soccer producer Shingo ‘Seabass’ Takatsuka has admitted that future versions of Pro Evolution Soccer may not be available as a boxed product. When asked by GamesTM (issue 88) if he’s consider transforming PES into a microtransaction-funded online series, Seabass stated: Yes, I …

Forget the idea that all gamers are overweight and unfit – the fastest man in the world likes nothing more than staying indoors and playing video games, it has been revealed. Speaking to BBC Radio5 Live ahead of the 200m final at the World Athletics Championship in Berlin tomorrow, Bolt …

The Master League remains arguably the chief feather in Pro Evolution Soccer’s cap, and Konami hopes to grab a bigger share of the 2009 market with a raft of ML changes that looks et to improve upon the already brilliant formula.

 The Master League is now split into three sections …

Wii owners were forced to wait over five months for 2008’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 to make the move from Xbox 360, PS3 and PC to their platform, but Konami has stated that the Wii version of PES 2010 will be out this autumn. Though the game won’t match the …