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Former Sky pundit and long-time FIFA colour commentator Andy Gray will not feature in EA Sports' FIFA 12.

The former Scotland international player will be replaced by Alan Smith, who joins Martin Tyler, Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend in the game.

So Andy Gray gets the boot from Sky Sports and now EA Sports for being a sexist pig, but Tiger Woods doesn't get the push for being a lying, philandering dirtbag? Great double standards.

Any road up, full press release after the jump.

Check out the video below, which features some of the technology behind EA Sports' FIFA 12. The new "impact engine" really is rather impressive - offering some very convincing interactions between players such as dribbling while shielding the ball and reworked realistic injuries.

Electronic Arts has announced that a demo for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters will be released on PSN and Xbox Live on March 8th.

The demo will feature the famous 18th hole at the Agusta National course.

All the details after the break.

Well this is completely bonkers. Electronic Arts has cancelled NBA Elite 11.

According to EA COO John Schappert development of future NBA Elite releases will be handled to EA Tiburon. EA Canada had been developing this year's game.

EA Sports says that FIFA 11 is the fastest selling sports videogame having already sold 2.6 million units in Europe and North America by Saturday October 2nd.

Sales compared to the launch of FIFA 10 last year are up 29 percent.

"We’re thrilled at how fans embraced FIFA 11 last weekend, and we are excited to be able to offer one of our most popular game modes – FIFA 11 Ultimate Team – for free this November," said EA Sports boss Peter Moore. "This is a landmark achievement for EA SPORTS – we’ve shattered sales records at retail, critics are praising FIFA 11 as being one of the most authentic and innovative titles ever, and fans are connecting and competing with other gamers around the world and have logged a record number of online connected game sessions."

The publisher has also revealed it will release the FIFA 11 Ultimate Team mode as free content for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 games in November.

Yesterday I was invited over to Electronic Arts to play NBA Elite 11. I used to be quite a fan of basketball games but I grew bored of their lack of evolution and more importantly player involvement.

Can EA Sports turn around the malaise in the genre and create a basketball game that will appeal to gamers who may not be fans of the sport?

Well, let's see...

EA Sports has released a short video which shows how the stamina and fatigue attributes have an effect on player abilities in the forthcoming football game.

Check it out after the jump:

Electronic Arts European boss Jens Uwe Intat says that FIFA will retain its dominance over the rival Pro Evo franchise this year.

While FIFA has been clearly better than the last few Pro Evo releases this year looks like it might be a closer fight.

We'll find out when FIFA 11 is released on October 1st (Sept 28th in US) and PES 2011 on October 8th.

Source: MCV

EA Sports has released the following movie which shows off new features for FIFA 11 including 11v11 online play, personality+, pro passing and be a goalkeeper.

You'll notice the movie ends with the news a demo will be released on September 16th.

Check out the video and further details after the jump:

EA Sports has announced a new name for its official NBA Basketball series - the first game being NBA Elite 11.

The game will be released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in October.

More after the jump.

EA Sports has today announced NHL Slapshot, an ice hockey game endorsed by the great Wayne Gretzky and featuring a hockey stick controller for the Wii.

Full PR after the jump.

EA Sports and the Canadian Hockey League have signed a deal that will keep the three Canadian leagues in the NHL Ice Hockey franchise for another four years.

The practical upshot for this year being that NHL 11 - which goes on sale on PS3 and X360 in September - will feature all the teams and players of the Western Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

Full PR after the jump.