The best games of the decade on PCDec 6, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun It’s been an eventful decade for PC games, and it would be hard for you to summarise everything that’s happened in the medium across the past ten years. Hard for you, but a day’s work for us. Below you’ll find our picks for the 50 best games released on PC across the past decade. (more…) Football Manager 2020 coming in November, and to Google Stadia tooAug 27, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Sports Interactive today announced their next annual Football Manager sequel, though they don’t have much to say about it. What they do say is that as well as Windows and Mac, this year’s kickabout management sim will launch on Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming platform. SI make the unusual claim that all those processors Google have hanging from balloons in their clouds will actually make FM2020 quicker on Stadia than other platforms. Huh. But imagine having the cash to run thousands of kettles generating clouds yet not the cash to rehire Manager Man as the official chin, torso, and clenched fist of the box art. Shameful. (more…) Football Manager 2019 Touch January Transfer Update OUT NOW!Mar 6, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsWe're delighted to announce that the 19.3 Winter Transfer Update for Football Manager 2019 Touch is now available to download on Steam. If playing on Windows or Mac via Steam the game should update automatically when you launch Steam or close the game - if not try closing and restarting Steam. This update is fully save game and cross-sync compatible. Whilst fixes in the changelist below are save game compatible, for access to the latest database and competition updates you will be required to start a new game. Fixes and tweaks in this update include but are not limited to those listed in the changelist. This update of FM19 Touch also includes the latest match engine (1930) and many of the gameplay and balance changes included in FM19's 19.3 update. FOOTBALL MANAGER 2019 TOUCH -- 19.3.1 UPDATE CHANGELIST ==================================================== --------- - Added the Winter Transfer database to include 2019 winter transfer & data updates - Prevented AI clubs letting players leave on free transfers too often - Fixed instance where user could be stuck in a match after viewing highlights - Improved loading times for some challenges - Fixed instance where player would ask for a new contract then be unwilling to sign it - Various other stability and bug fixes - Various Match Engine (version 1930) tweaks including (but not limited to): - Fixed bug with keeper reach on some high shots - Improved keeper reactions to free kick and penalty shots - Fixed rare instances of keepers picking up back passes or not reacting to them - Fixed keeper controlling ball then never moving to pick it up or kick it - Removed a restriction on striker and creative attackers offering out ball - Fixed incorrect offside example - Fixed couple of issues related to VAR - Adjusted attacking player marking when preventing GK distribution at goal kicks - Adjusted marking of players coming short for throw-ins - Fixed instances of central midfielders bunching close to ball - Made players cross slightly earlier when possible - Slight encouragement to pass ball forward more when optimal - Fixed issue where player marking edge of area at set piece doesn't always engage ball player who receives it outside area - Fine-tuned shot and pass accuracyFootball Manager 2019 preview: a meaningful step forward for the seriesOct 9, 2018 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun 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 glory. And it will always, to quote SI s Director of Development Marc Duffy, aim to achieve suspension of disbelief in the player s mind. The question then, as with all annual series, is the extent to which the game advances on its predecessors. In the case of Football Manager 2019, the studio is bullish about their ambitions for this year s release. (more…) Football Manager 2019 firing Manager Man in NovemberAug 7, 2018 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Another year in the Football Manager series means another set of tweaks and revisions to the well-established formula, as we’ll see in the newly-announced launch of Football Manager 2019 (and its streamlined sibling Football Manager Touch 2019) on November 2nd. Expect the addition of Germany’s DFL Bundesliga and the shock firing of the series mascot, Manager Man. This mysterious sportsdad, also known as Ian Football (lore deep cut: he’s canonically the son of Manfred Mann but wanted to make his own name off his own work), has graced the box art of every game since FM2005 but now… he’s fired. It’s a scandal. (more…)
