Wednesday, September 23, 2015

The Road to Putting Women Into FIFA 16 (And Why It Matters)

Since its debut in 1993 (innocuously titled FIFA International Soccer), the FIFA video game series has become an institution; its appearance on end-of-year best seller lists as reliable as death and taxes.

This year, EA announced the biggest change to FIFA since its inception. In a series expected to be improved annually through small technical increments, the announcement that women’s teams would be playable in FIFA 16 arrived with a surprisingly progressive thud. It has been talked about ever since.

“We made the announcement months ago, yet at at Gamescom, it was still one of the first topics brought up,” says FIFA 16 producer Nick Channon. “And that to me is really important. That’s how big it is.

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