Towards a Monopoly: Examining FIFA’s Dominance in Simulated Football

Simulating the world’s most popular sport is big business and the most popular titles in the industry are Electronic Arts’ FIFA (2015-2019) franchise and Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) (2015-2019). A rivalry that begun in 1995, the last 24 years have seen the games modify, adapt and transform t...

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Main Author: Deshbandhu, Aditya (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2020]
In: Gamevironments
Year: 2020, Volume: 12, Pages: 49-76
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B FIFA / Soccer / eSports (Contests) / Videospielemarkt
RelBib Classification:ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B gamevironments
B Gaming Economics
B Game Studies
B Simulated Sport
B FIFA
B PES
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)

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