EA Sports Requesting FIFA Fans in Cologne, Germany
You've seen me talking about the FIFA event taking place in the UK on March 8th, well now it is time for German FIFA fans to find out how they can also attend the special EA SPORTS event.
EA Sports will be holding the same special event in Cologne, Germany on Tuesday 18th - Friday 21st of March.
If you live near that area and want to join in with the team who are working on FIFA 2004, then make sure you send me an email for more information. This is a great opportunity no FIFA fan should miss out on.
Hello again, everyone. Today we are presenting you with the Real Madrid and Inter HIGH QUALITY KITS! from FIFA Web Portal. In the near future you will be able to download more kits from their web sites!
Also over at FIFA Web Portal they are upgrading their downloads center. So pay a visit to FIFA Web Portal and download those great new kits created by Hrvoje Bajlo!
Over at FifaKulte they have published a new Big patch called LFP Max 2. It's the biggest patch they've ever made and possibly the best French patch so far for FIFA 2003.
It features:
Big database update (after Mercato)
Flags of great French teams
New kits > More than 80 kits of all French teams (home, away, third and gk kits were completely re-worked for zero !!!)
There are still a few spots left for the exciting FIFA event that is taking place at EA UK Studios in Chertsey, Surrey on the weekend starting March 8th. If you're looking for a good time and a chance to meet the EA Sports FIFA team and see the EA UK Studios, send me an email for full details.
As we build up to the release of the excellent World League Patch over at Soccer Access, Sweetpatch has a great posting with all the latest patch features.
To satisfy the demands of the huge football loving audience that visit Soccer Gaming every day, we have decided to create a dedicated set of forums for supporters of the beautiful game.
The World Football Forums are collection of forums dedicated to every major league and team in the world of football.
The good news is that if you are already a member of our Soccer Gaming Forums, and have logged onto the Soccer Gaming Forums in the past one hundred days then you will automatically be registered to post at the World Football Forums.
The new message boards have only been open for twelve hours and already there have been more than 150 posts.
Make sure you pay the World Football Forums a visit and start posting yourself. The more you post, the closer we get to forming the ultimate football community.
FIFACE, the most popular Korean patch site can now be accessed in English. They are affiliated with sites such as FIFA Belgium, FIFA 4Fans, and FIFA Korea. To get to the English language site click here, or click here for the Korean version.
On the weekend of March 8th - 9th EA Sports will be holding a special event at the EA UK offices in Chertsey, Surrey (just outside London). There are only a strict number of spots available so if you are interested in attending send me an email for further information. This is a terrific opportunity that every FIFA fan who can make it shouldn't miss out on. EA will even be giving everyone who attends a free tour of the studios.
Not much updating has been going on over at FIFA Web Portal recently, but for good reason. The guys have been working on their new Boots Selector. It is tool that allow the user to easily import his or her own boots to any 12 players plus change the default boots in the game. They are also planning on releasing tons of new kits, boots, flags, etc in the near future.
Boots Selector by FIFA Web Portal
Pay the team at FIFA Web Portal a visit to check out their amazing work.
Dan Bream (aka Breamster) has just published a Tutorial to accompany his Breamster Gameplay Patches. Also, he has created a Forum which can keep his work organized, and where people can post requests, problems, etc for either the Gameplay or Roster patches. Both the Tutorial and Forum can be found over at his site.
We have a new poll question for you. More than 12,000 people voted in our last poll which showed us that about half of our visitors were happy with FIFA 2003, while the other half generally agreed that it was a good game, but still needed some work.
This time we want to find out what you consider to be the most vital feature that needs to be added to FIFA 2004. Scroll down to the bottom of our right menu and cast your vote today.
In celebration of Fifa Online's third birthday, Leo has published the FIFA 2003 InstalLeo. It installs all types of Fifa 2003 files in one simple click. All you have to do is put the file you want to install in the InstalLeo directory, run the program, select the file and click on Install file!
InstalLeo
To download this installing-made-simple program go over to Fifa Online.
As another week passes in our enjoyment of Fifa 2003 (and another week closer to Fifa 2004!) we bring you a summary of all the most exciting Super Patches that have been released, or announced as under development in recent weeks over at Soccer Gaming.
The patches discussed this week include:
Superliga Portuguesa 2002/2003 Patch
World League Patch
AEK Athens Patch
Romania Comes in Fifa 2003
Euro 2004 patch
Israeli National Team Patch
FIFA Super Stars patch
Czech Super Patch
Check over at Soccer Gaming for the full news article. For all information on the most important and influential Fifa patches please visit the number 1 Super Patches resource on the Internet, the Patches Database.
The French website, FifaKulte.com has released two new programs. First, TV Enviro contains TV Environments of 8 TV channels and is tanslated into English and German. Also, Smart Popups contains 6 popups for Friendlies, Cup matches, UEFA CUP matches, Champions League matches, and FifaKulte, and is translated into English and German as well.
TV Enviro and Smart Popups by FifaKulte.com
Click here to download TV Enviro and here for Smart Popups.
Sotiris Mitroussis from Greece has been playing FIFA soccer since the beginning ('96). He recently downloaded the Creation Centre and since he is an AEK fan he made a patch for his team.
The patch includes:
full roster with actual heights, weights etc.. for the players (info taken from the team's official site)
three kits
flags and banners
and chants of "Original Gate 21"
As always, you can get this patch direct from the Patches Database.
We finish this article with a request to every soccer fan in Greece from Sotiris. "Let's place Greek first division championship back in the FIFA game!" If you are interested, send a mail to Sotiris by clicking here and help to create the Greek First Division in the game.
Just like the Academy, the guys at FIFA Champions have announced the nominees for their annual awards. There is a vast array of categories this year ranging from Best Website, Best News site, Best Tournament, Best Downloads, Best Forums, Best Design plus many more. You can see exactly who was nominated and find out complete details at FIFA Champions.
Sweetpatch has news from the guys over at FifaRomania who released the first Romanian patch for Fifa 2003 last month, the Romania Comes in Fifa 2003 patch.
The patch features:
Teams for Divizia A and B
Bonus 1 :: Rapid from Rest of the World is replaced with an All Stars team (featuring players form Divizia A and the FifaRomania staff)
Bonus 2 :: The Romanian National Team replaces Saudi Arabia
home, away, 3rd, gk kits (the last 2 only for some of the teams)
flags, banners
rosters
menu badges
Divizia A adboards
for other features check for updates
Check out the full details and download location over with Sweetpatch.
Dimitris from ECP has some great news. This time it's not directly concerning UCL patch but it will for sure bring new quality and feeling to the game. He would like to introduce you all to the Club Championship Adboards Patch. The patch was made by one of their best patch-makers, Saurabh Sharma, with high-quality, photorealistic textures for maximum realism and details. Here are the features:
Adds photorealistic and high-quality adboards for each of 18 CC teams
Adds WC adboards for international matches as bonus
Check out ECP for more details on to download the patch.
It has been awhile since I updated you all on what has been added to the Downloads Centre (or anything for that matter) because of computer troubles as Matt explained earlier. Now, however, everything seems to be working fine and I should be updating as usual. So, here are today's newest files:
Lyon Club Championship Menu
Lens Club Championship Menu
Galatasaray Club Championship Menu
Croatia Zagreb Home Kit Textures
Sheffield United Home & Away Kit Textures
Romania Team Patch
Nike Air Zoom White & Red
Nike Air Zoom Black & Silver
Lyon Club Championship Menu and Croatia Zagreb Home Kit Textures
Check out the Downloads Centre today for some amazing downloads, and expect more updates tomorrow as I attempt to catch up.
The last week here has been slow to say the least. Both Leo, our Downloads Centre updater, and Will, our main news reporter, have had computer problems. The good news is that both of them are once again back in action and will begin updating first thing tomorrow. If you have some news you want posted here, make sure you use the link in the left menu.
Earlier in the week we were looking for Manchester United fans in London. Now we just need anyone who lives in London and is interested in FIFA. I can't say exactly what it is EA are organising, but all I can say is that you'd be crazy to miss out if you're a keen FIFA player and living close to London. Anyone who is interested, please send an email to matt@soccergaming.com.
As another week passes in our enjoyment of Fifa 2003 (and another week closer to Fifa 2004!) Soccer Gaming and Sweetpatch combine to bring you a summary of all the most exciting Super Patches that have been released or announced as under development in recent weeks.
Check out Soccer Gaming for news on the following patches:
Belgian-Dutch Fifa Patch
Uruguayan League Patch 2002
Yugoslavian League Patch
Euro 2004 patch
Turkish Super League II
Fifa On Line Superpatch 2.1
Bosnian Premier League Patch 2003
and more...
Get on over to Soccer Gaming now for these full Super Patch details.
There is no flagging over at FIFA IL as they have released more new FIFA 2003 downloads for your enjoyment.
You can find in their Download Source many new flags sets, including these latest additions:
Maccabi Haifa authentic ultras flags
AC Milan flags set
Inter Milan Ultras flags
Liverpool FC flags set
& many more
All the flags were done from real images for maximum authenticy. So head right now over to FIFA IL and download these new files and many more quality files. Enjoy.
Following on from the success of his his EURO 2004 kit project, Shahab Shaterian is now developing it into a full Super Patch. Full details and demo of this patch coming soon over with Sweetpatch. In the meantime check out the screenshot below.
Shahab also needs someone to help him finish this patch. Can you add teams and players? If you can, please send Shahab an e-mail by clicking here.
Ariel from Socceraccess has published his latest creation, the Menu Raptor. Menu Raptor will allow you to import bitmaps to FIFA 2003 and change the title screen or top menu background with just one click.
Menu Raptor
Ariel plans on releasing an improved version which will allow the user to change the legal screen and Club Championship backgrounds in the near future, but until then head over to Socceraccess to download the current version.
Hrvoje Bajlo, president of FIFA Web Portal, has released new kit templates for FIFA 2003. These templates were made to look like actual kits used during real football matches.
FIFA Web Portal Kit Templates
FIFA Web Portal would also like to introduce their two new testers: Igor Gajic and Spherix. Anyway, to download the templates click over to FIFA Web Portal.
Sweetpatch Super Patch 2003 is under development
