The lowdown on FIFA 12

We’re big fans of the FIFA football games here at Culch Towers and last week I was lucky enough to travel to EA’s London headquarters to check out the next installment, FIFA 12, which is due in the autumn. I’d been on a similar trip last year but this year’s trip came a month earlier as the team were keen to get even a pre-alpha version in front of people to test out the new features. If you’ve played FIFA 11 then you’ll know how faithful it is to the real thing and it’s clear that the team at EA, led by producer David Rutter, has tried to push on. David spoke to us about three key innovations for 2012:

Pics: Rubberbandits Strung Up on a Spit

Someone somewhere is ingenious at photocall concepts because we just got these images of The Rubberbandits strung up by the hocks to promote their gig at the Limerick Pig ‘n’ Porter festival (July 15th - 17th). They’re donating the proceeds of their spot to online mental health community ReachOut.com. Tickets are €15 from the usual.