2021-04-21 11:17 UTC · Strategy Gamer · editor@pcgamesn.com
Football Manager 2017 is officially on the field with a host of new features ready for the budding armchair coach in the new season. Here's everything you'll need to know about the new sports simulator, from release date to minimum specs. Could this year's edition be one of the best PC games of 2016? Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Thanks to Football Manager, the Bolivian national team tried to field a French player Football Manager is getting its own exhibit: The Beautiful Exhibition Football Manager 2017: bargains to strengthen a top-flight team
2019-11-15 12:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Daniel Curtis)
The year is 2049. My avatar, managing Tottenham Hotspur, is 67. Harry Redknapp is long dead. Chris Smalling is my assistant manager. Now, as I finally wind down my Football Manager 2012 playthrough through an unholy combination of bugs and, well, having won everything, the future beckons. I m having an existential crisis and the line between real and fictional is melting. But let s start at the beginning. (more…)
2018-10-09 12:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (George Osborn)
When you re working on annual iterative titles, it is difficult, says Miles Jacobson, Studio Director at Sports Interactive. You re always going to get people turning around saying you haven t added anything. And no matter how much you add, you re still going to get people saying that. That s the challenge that the Football Manager series faces every year. It remains, as it always will be, a game about being a football manager. It will always be about selecting a team to manage, creating tactical systems, crafting squads of players and sending them out onto virtual pitches in the pursuit of
2018-09-27 07:13 UTC · Eurogamer
There's something about Football Manager that makes it feel more than the sum of its parts. At its core it's just a database, a list of names that are assigned numbers which are then dragged and dropped into certain areas of a pitch by those who play it. Yet there's a reason players will don a real suit in preparation for playing in a virtual cup final, scout real-life footballers for a potential in-game transfer and why Sky Sports utilise the game's stats in its Premier League coverage Premier League. For many players, these numbers and names culminate in giving them a sense of unmatched grat
2018-01-02 19:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)
Another year over, a new one just begun, which means, impossibly, even more games. But what about last year? Which were the games that most people were buying and, more importantly, playing? As is now something of a tradition, Valve have let slip a big ol’ breakdown of the most successful titles released on Steam over the past twelve months. Below is the full, hundred-strong roster, complete with links to our coverage if you want to find out more about any of the games, or simply to marvel at how much seemed to happen in the space of 52 short weeks. (more…)
2017-11-01 18:05 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
While Football Manager 2018 doesn’t launch until next week, ballheads can rest assured that the popular fan-made tool Genie Scout is already coming over. For non-ballheads, lets sidebar for an analogy. Football Manager is a crafting game about preparing and tweaking a wildly complex stew. The stew is a football team. Thousands of ingredients (players) are available, each with oodles of flavours (attributes) affecting what they contribute to the stew. Football Manager’s crafting recipe grimoire is cumbersome, though, and even hides some ingredient attributes. Enter Genie Scout, a fa
2017-10-23 10:45 UTC · PC Gamer
Ahead of its November 10 launch, Football Manager 2018 has so far teased its Dynamics system, its overhauled scouting system, and its new Medical Centre, among a number of other features. Naturally, these deal with the behind-the-scenes side of Sports Interactive's esteemed footie/soccer management sim, however the latest instalment will also double down on its 'Matchday Experience.'  As portrayed in the following trailer, FM 2018 introduces a new graphics engine, as well as a number of UI and HUD tweaks, that enhance how matches play out and how you interact with your team
2017-10-09 10:53 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Adam Smith)
2017-09-29 11:50 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Adam Smith)
Harry Redknapp is not a wheeler-dealer. The subs bench is not a bed. Transfer deadline day is not suitable for work. Transfer deadline day is your entire existence now. I’ve been waiting to see what’s new in Football Manager 2018 since the release of Football Manager 2017. A short transfer window spoof video from Sega and Sports Interactive doesn’t reveal an enormous amount, but overhauled scouting, fancy-looking stadiums and a mysterious ‘dynamics’ system are all teased, along with AI improvements on and off the pitch. (more…)
2017-08-21 14:36 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)
You want to know which are the top ten selling games on Steam this week, but you also still don’t know the capital city of Turkmenistan. What is a person to do? Well worry not, because here at Steam Charts HQ, we’ve got you covered! All the games that are in the top ten games in the Steam top ten games chart, and all the facts you need for that surprise government test! Join us today as we laugh and learn. (more…)
2017-08-15 17:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 80% on Football Manager 2017!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Thursday at 10AM Pacific Time
2017-08-15 17:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 80% on Football Manager 2017!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Thursday at 10AM Pacific Time
2017-08-15 14:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
Football Manager 2018 is a game which exists and will launch on November 10th, publishers Sega announced today. Football Manager Touch 2018 also exists and will also launch on November 10th. That is about all Sega say. What’s new with this year’s instalment? They won’t tell us until September. As Sega won’t offer details, we’ve turned to our trusted secret sources . (more…)
2017-07-25 16:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Adam Smith)
We’re poised in the drop zone, hanging on by a thread, and nobody seems to care if we cling on by the skin of our teeth or tumble into oblivion. I am the manager of Bury FC and the terrible results aren’t the worst thing about this season. The truly heartbreaking thing is the apparent demise of a small club and its generations-old local support base. If a last minute goal condemns a team to relegation and nobody is around to see the ball hit the net, does it even matter? In Football Manager , they only sing when you’re winning. (more…)
2017-07-06 15:23 UTC · Community Announcements · Neil Brock
Just a very quick note to say we've released update 17.3.2 for Football Manager 2017. This is just to update the in-game Twitter to work with the latest version. Given the minimal changes the update should be relatively quick to download. As always if you encounter any problems we suggest restarting Steam to enable it to complete. Thanks.
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