Tag: Efootball
News eFootball 2023 Arrives This Month, And It'll Still Be Free-To-Play
"We will keep on improving..."
We have to admit we shed a tear when Konami decided to kill off the long-running PES series in favour of the free-to-play eFootball 2022, which still feels like a big step back compared to PES, although it's improving all the time. Well, it's actually been close to a year now since eFootball 2022 was first playable on...
News eFootball Delays Proper Launch To Spring 2022, Offers Refunds
But a bug-fixing patch is out now
Things are sadly going from bad to worse for Konami's eFootball 2022 right now, as following the highly negative reception it received at release back in late September, its first major update has now been postponed to Spring 2022. This is the update that is essentially meant to turn the free-to-play experience...
News UFL Unveils Liverpool's Roberto Firmino As New Game Ambassador
The upcoming free-to-play footie game
We've been keeping a very close eye on the upcoming free-to-play football game UFL ever since it was first announced back at Gamescom 2021, and it's now unveiled a new ambassador in the form of Liverpool's Roberto Firmino. You can see what the Brazilian centre-forward looks like in-game in the clip below, and...
News eFootball's First Patch Will Attempt To Fix Issues Later This October
"We apologise for any inconveniences"
We witnessed one of the worst launches in Xbox history in the form of the free-to-play PES replacement eFootball 2022 last month, and Konami has now promised to begin to fix its many issues in a patch later this October. In a message on social media, the development team "apologised for any inconveniences" so...
News Konami Apologises For eFootball 'Problems', Promises Improvements
"We will strive to improve the current situation"
There's been a lot of talk surrounding Konami's botched launch of eFootball over the past 24 hours, which currently holds an "Overwhelmingly Negative" rating on Steam, and the company has now come out and apologised publicly. In a statement, it was acknowledged that the game has suffered a lot of...
Roundup Sorry Konami, But These eFootball Bugs Are Absolutely Hilarious
And terrifying in equal measure
Just for context here, this writer is a massive Pro Evolution Soccer fan. The development team has done wonderous work with gameplay over the past 20 years, but, for whatever reason, the higher-ups at Konami decided to kill off the PES brand earlier this year, and the replacement is eFootball, which so far is shaping...
News eFootball 2022 Receives 'Overwhelmingly Negative' Reviews At Launch
The PES replacement is off to a worrying start
Konami unveiled the PES replacement eFootball earlier this year, serving as a free-to-play game that will evolve with new features over time, but its initial launch (it went live last night) has gone down noticeably poorly so far. Players have swarmed social media to share their impressions, with the...
News Konami's 'eFootball 2022' Launches For Free On Xbox This Month
PES has gone, eFootball has arrived
It was announced back in July that Konami was wrapping up the long-running Pro Evolution Soccer series in favour of a brand-new free-to-play experience called 'eFootball', and now we know it will launch for Xbox on September 30. eFootball will utilise a new engine compared to PES (Unreal Engine instead of the FOX...
News EA Issues Confident Statement In Response To PES Going Free-To-Play
"We've seen this happen before"
Konami rocked the boat last month when it was announced that Pro Evolution Soccer would be wrapping up after 25 years, and in its place would be eFootball - a brand-new soccer experience utilising a free-to-play model. From a FIFA perspective, EA was asked during yesterday's earnings call about the company's reaction...
News PES Fans Aren't Happy With eFootball's 'Photorealistic Visuals'
"Did they really skip a year to come up with this?"
Today has been dominated with the news that Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) series is being totally disbanded and replaced with something called eFootball, which will be a new free-to-play experience arriving this autumn. The reception to the announcement has been somewhat mixed, but over at...
News PES Replacement 'eFootball' Will Be Tailored For PvP Gameplay, Rather Than Player Versus AI
"This provides a greater thrill than what AI can provide"
Konami made a big splash this morning by announcing that the PES brand is being replaced with something called 'eFootball', a brand-new free-to-play experience which is set to arrive on Xbox this autumn. There have been mixed reactions to the announcement, with some praising the move and...
News Konami Is Replacing PES With 'eFootball', A New Free-To-Play Experience
It's the end of an era
It's the end of an era, folks! Konami has today announced that the PES brand is officially being dropped and replaced with 'eFootball', described as a "next-generation, free-to-play football simulation experience." The new game will be out this Autumn for Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, utilising the Unreal Engine...
