OXM UK writes: "Like the rest of the series, Football Manager 2008 is so gargantuan, so comprehensive, that you may mutilate your backside after days of sitting on it if you don't take the necessary precautions. A nice comfortable cushion would be one option. Either that, or a bottle of antiseptic lotion for the developing sores in your nether regions.
If you're not familiar with the series, then you might have once known it as Championship Manager back when it was solely a PC game - albeit one that sold by the lorry-load. It's the football management sim that is so accurate in its tracking and prediction of player and team development that some league coaches and scouts have been known to dip into it for pointers on where to turn for the next Wayne Rooney (or even Jason Scotland)."
Eurogamer: "It's a shame when relationships end but it's often for the best. Football Manager and me had it all – long intimate evenings, weekends away, the occasional holiday. I'd thought we never split up. But eventually cracks began to appear, the physical side deteriorated, and we became strangers.
As an early adopter of pretending to manage a football team on a computer (i.e. a semi-autistic weirdo), a chronic addiction to Football Manager seemed my inevitable destiny. My first taste was the original Football Manager on the ZX Spectrum, whose bearded creator, Kevin Toms, appeared beaming on the cassette case cover."
Chris Evans reveals the truth of his younger days playing Football Manager and Championship Manager. His evil underhand tactics to win matches are unveiled for all to see.
The UK's loss of talented developers in the sports genre has been 'utterly huge' according to Miles Jacobson, the studio head of London-based Football Manager developer Sports Interactive.
In an exclusive interview with Develop, Jacobson explained that Canada's exemplary tax break rates – which peak at 40% of dev costs – was the reason why a number of British-born developers now work in cities such as Vancouver and Toronto.
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