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New FIFA Street Trailer Teaches You How to Panna, Embarrass Opponents

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FIFA Street is probably one of the only games where a prerequisite for winning is to make a complete and utter fool out of your opponents – the old fashioned ‘dribble like a baby, kick like a beast’ method won’t work. If you can’t embarrass them, you’ll have a serious challenge on your hands if you want to win, like climbing a giant slippery slope of football terms and sports-based acrobatics.

This latest video for the game is the key to learning how to succeed, providing you with the must-know tips to scoring more goals in FIFA Street.

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Own The Planet, See Antarctica in This New SSX Trailer

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I’ll be honest with you, the idea of snowboarders taking over the world absolutely baffles me ; do those woollen mittens and parkers come with built in uzis or will they simply deafen the world with Swedish house music before robbing all of our coin purses?

Like I said : baffling.

The one place where they do have the clear advantage is the slopes, the giant pale behemoths that put those Twilight vamps to shame (the mountains don’t have glitter, mind you…) In SSX, one of the places that they will attempt to ‘own’ is Antarctica, and this trailer of gameplay footage for the game has grabs, grinds and aerial dreams galore.

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New FIFA Street Trailer Challenges You to “Free Your Game”

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EA : makers of good games, supporter of football rights. No, their wish to ‘free your game’ in their upcoming titles FIFA Street will not win them any points with PETA but it will definitely win us gamers over.

The new trailer explores the various different styles of play that each location in the game is home to. Handy if you’re a) interested in seeing what gameplay FIFA Street has to offer and b) if you’ve ever struggled to fit a ball in your suitcase next your flip-flops and vile floral print dress shirts.

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Hidden Gems of the Gaming World : Syndicate

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Hidden Gems of the Gaming World is a new post series here on J Station X that talks about the games that you should buy (though will most likely overlook).Syndicate Headhunting Logo

“Syndication for the nation!”, the heralds will cry.

“Corporations, criminals, television shows!”, “Syndicate ALL the things!”, Internet meme posters will bellow from behind their laptop screens.
Meanwhile, you are sat there thinking ‘how on Earth is any of this relevant to my gaming interests?’.

Back in the ancient times of 1993, a game called ‘Syndicate’ was released. It was an “isometric tactical squad” game that put you in charge of four agents with the task of killing, escorting and persuading various high profile figures.

The last game in the franchise (Syndicate Wars) was released almost two decades ago but EA are starting from scratch, rebooting the series and throwing out the clunky, block-like graphics of old, giving it a futuristic look and a myriad of gameplay options to boot for its upcoming 2012 release.

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Travis Rice is a Modern Day Explorer in this New SSX Trailer

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Less than an hour ago, I was providing you with all of the links to cheer up an otherwise rather dismal Monday morning and now I’m here again thrusting images of snow covered slopes and depictions of brisk, Winter weather into your retinas.

I apologise for the temperature reminder, I really do, but what I have for you is definitely worth it. Wrap up arm and feast your eyes on this brand new trailer for EA’s SSX, featuring the alpine daredevil himself, Travis Rice.

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Medal of Honor and Need For Speed Sequels Confirmed by video game retailer, GAME

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In the latest round of accidental Internet reveals of game info, one of the UK’s largest video game retails tweeted that they were presented with details about sequels to both (previously unconfirmed) Medal of Honour and Need For Speed at a recent EA presentation.

The full tweet (which has since been deleted in lieu of the cock-up) was as follows

EA presentation was great, had mentions of a new Medal of Honour and Need For Speed 13! EA have an exciting year.

There was no word on the inevitable tagline that would follow the new NFS game (e.g ‘The Run’, or ‘Shift’) but we will keep you posted as soon as we know anything (this would be a good excuse to give that link below a click and sign up to JSX’s email updates).

What would you like to see in the new Need For Speed and Medal of Honor games? – Leave a comment!

New Mass Effect 3 Screenshots, Pre-Order Deals Revealed

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Saving the entire Universe from the Reapers, defending your hind from a sinister super-group who are intent on pulverising you into a million fleshy fragments, all while trying to romance sexy blue alien doctors. It will not be an easy feat for Commander Shepard in Mass Effect 3 and you’ll need all of the help that you can get to hoover up those trophies and achievements and to come out of the other side of this epic battle of epic proportions alive and so EA have lined up a stack of pre-order goodies to aid you.

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Song of the Week – FIFA Soundtrack

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Two things that EA get consistently right : sports simulations and music. For the past 4 years they’ve been working hard to make the Rock Band franchise the best it can possibly be and that shows, with each edition of the game trumping Guitar Hero in quality. But why should all of that good tuneage be allocated to one game? Good question, it shouldn’t. Which is why they put together dozens of musical genres for an eclectic compilation of some of the greatest songs ever and they add them to their (already stellar) sports games. There was that one inexcusable time when they featured a Nickelback song in one of their NHL games but we’ll ignore that for the moment as they’ve gotten it right every other time.

This week’s SOTW is from one of the FIFA games, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, more specifically, FIFA 10, which is one of my favourite soundtracks of all time. The song is “Gold Guns Girls” by a band called Metric, a super group of Canadian indie rockers who infuse electronic elements into their music, which makes the usually tedious team picking task in FIFA a wonderfully delightful (and dance-y) experience.

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First Trailer for FIFA Football (PS Vita)

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Win the ball, pass the ball, kick the ball, SCORE! That’s how it goes in all of the FIFA games, the way it works on Sony’s handheld, PS Vita, is no different. All of the game play that you expect to be in the game is there, if the game’s first trailer is anything to go by. What may throw you off guard are the added touch capabilities ‘touch the screen to shoot you say? MADNESS!’ and the fact that you will be walking around with HD graphics in your back pocket. But we shouldn’t fear its quality, we should embrace it with open arms, even if that does mean being subject to Wayne Rooney’s “attractive” mug in high definition.

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Hidden Gems of the Gaming World : FIFA Street

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Hidden Gems of the Gaming World is a post series here on J Station X that talks about the games that you should buy (though will most likely overlook).

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When you’re in the market for a football game, your choices are between the annually-released FIFA or PES games. It’s a choice between realism or sub-par realism, authentic licensed football or ‘playing as ‘Manchester Red’ and having to breach copyright just to type in the proper team name. As difficult as that choice may be for FIFA-heads and PES-nuts alike, EA are throwing another warrior into the footie sim fighting ring with FIFA Street.

FIFA Street has been dead for a few years but thankfully, EA are deciding to pull it out of the vault to dust it off and revamp it for the new generation of gamers, making football games a choice between serious true to life gameplay or pure unadulterated fun.
However, I know that a lot of you will be sceptical about buying into this skills-focused style of football that you’re not used to, which is exactly why FIFA Street is the latest addition to my list of ‘Hidden Gems of the Gaming World’.

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