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FIFA 16 Cheapest Deals in the UK
With the release of Fifa 16 you will be looking for a great deal to purchase it. The average price seems to be a lot more than previous releases so below is a guide on where to get the cheapest deals in the UK.

Xbox 360

Zavvi: FIFA 16 Xbox 360, £36.99 and free UK delivery

365 Games: FIFA 16 Xbox 360, £36.99 and free UK delivery

Toys R Us: Xbox 360 FIFA 16, £39.99 and free UK delivery

Tesco: FIFA 16 Xbox 360, £40 and free next day click and collect

GAME: FIFA 16 Xbox 360, £41.99, and free UK delivery

Morrisons: FIFA 16 Xbox 360, £41, UK delivery from £1

Xbox One

Toys R Us: Xbox One FIFA 16, £40.99 and free UK delivery

Morrisons: FIFA 16 Xbox One, £42, UK delivery from £1

Amazon: FIFA 16 (Xbox One), £42, and free UK delivery

Tesco: FIFA 16 Xbox One, £42 and free next day click and collect

Currys: FIFA 16 for Xbox One, £42 and free click and collect

Zavvi: FIFA 16 Xbox One, £42.99 and free delivery

GAME: FIFA 16 Xbox One, £44.99, and free UK delivery

Argos: FIFA 16 Xbox One, £45.99 and free UK delivery

PS3

Toys R Us: PS3 FIFA 16, £39.99 and free UK delivery

Tesco: FIFA 16 PS3, £40 and free UK delivery + free next day click and collect

GAME: FIFA 16 PS3, £41.99, and free UK delivery

Argos: FIFA 16 PS3, £44.99 and free UK delivery

Morrisons: FIFA 16 PS3, £41, UK delivery from £1

PS4

Toys R Us: PS4 FIFA 16, £40.99 and free UK delivery

Currys: FIFA 16 - for PS4, £42 and free UK delivery

Tesco: FIFA 16 PS4, £42 and free UK delivery + free next day click and collect

Morrisons: FIFA 16 PS4, £42, UK delivery from £1

365 Games: FIFA 16 Game PS4, £42.99 and free UK delivery

GAME: FIFA 16 PS4, £44.99, and free UK delivery

Argos: FIFA 16 PS4, £45.99 and free UK delivery

Deluxe and Super Deluxe editions

Tesco: Fifa 16 Deluxe Edition PS3, £52 and free UK delivery + free next day click and collect

Amazon: FIFA 16 Deluxe Edition (PS3), £58.92 and free UK delivery

365 Games: FIFA 16 Deluxe Edition Game PS4, £54.99 and free UK delivery

Zavvi: FIFA 16 - Deluxe Edition Xbox One, £64.99 and free UK delivery

GAME: FIFA 16 Super Deluxe Edition, £79.99 and free UK delivery

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Football Manager 2016 for £22.99 offer
Football Manager 2016 is released on 13th November but can be pre-ordered now. The RRP price on this through Steam is £34.99 but you can now pre-order through cdkeys.com for just £22.99.

The link to this offer is available using the link below:

Football Manager 2016 for £22.99

You can pay using PayPal and will receive a product code to retrieve using your Steam account.

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Football Manager 2015 Summer Transfer Update
If you are a Football Manager 2015 player then you will want the latest transfer updates. We have found that the best place to get these updates are from LFCMarshall and can be downloaded from the link below:

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Football Manager 2015 Summer Transfer Update

COMMENTS

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The Evolution of Gaming
Many people will still remember the delights of playing console games in the 1980s, such as the Atari console games that used to be so popular. Of course, as we moved into the 1990s, these consoles and games started to seem positively primitive with advancements during the 1990s enabling gamers to enjoy what seemed to be far more sophisticated games and consoles. This included gaming via consoles such as the Sega Master System II and the Commodore 64 Games System.

Computer gaming also became increasingly popular in the 1990s, with many people switching from console games to PC games thanks to the more sophisticated and exciting games that were brought out due to the technological advancements that were experienced. This is something that continued through the 2000s, particularly during the first few years when there seemed to be a spurt in popularity and sophistication when it came to gaming. Games such as Final Fantasy, God of War and Mass Effect had players glued to their screens for hours at a time.

Evolution through mobile gaming

Over the past decade or so, gaming has evolved even further. This is not just as a result of the advancements in quality and technology in terms of graphics and content but also the rocketing popularity of mobile devices. Mobile gaming has now helped to revolutionise the gaming industry and while many people still play on their high tech consoles and PCs, millions are also enjoying a wide range of gaming options using their smartphones and tablets.

Online gaming has enabled consumers to enjoy a wide range of gaming entertainment including online casino games to play while on the go. Sites such as Betsafe offer players a wide variety of gaming options ranging from online poker through to virtual slots machine games. This has provided players with a convenient alternative to heading to a bricks and mortar casino or even playing from their PC, as Betsafe provides a safe and speedy way of enjoying these games on tablets and smartphones.

Many mobile device owners also enjoy downloading a variety of simple games that can be played while on the go via sites such as iTunes or the App Store. Users of various platforms including Android and iOS are able to indulge in fun games such as Angry Birds and Bebbled, which have become extremely popular despite their simplicity compared to the more advanced PC and console games that are available today. 

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Xbox One Free Games - Assassins Creed Black Flag
As you may be aware, Xbox Gold membership now means that you get two free games each month to download and keep. Most of these are junk and not even worth the hard drive space a game download takes up, but this month is different...

One of our favourite ever Xbox One game releases is now free to download for the entire month of July - Assassins Creed: Black Flag.


All you need to do to get you hands on this fantastic free game is to login your to Xbox One console, go to your free games with Gold and start the download - its pretty big and will take some time but its worth it!

There are also other free games for Xbox 360, but seriously, who cares - just get playing ACBF!

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Football Manager 2015 - "The Steam servers are too busy to handle your request for Football Manager 2015 Error 53"
If you are installing a fresh copy of Football Manager 2015 through Steam, when you try and load the game after a seemingly successful download and install, you may receive an error similar to this one:

"The Steam servers are too busy to handle your request for Football Manager 2015 Error 53"

If you get this, then the reason is either exactly what it states and the Steam servers are too busy, but more likely, your Anti-Virus or Firewall program is blocking the installation from completing.

In our case, we had McAfee installed with the firewall and on-access real time scanner running. We disabled all the McAfee utilities and run the game again - it completed the install without any problem at all.

Once the installation is complete, you can re-enable all your firewall and Anti-Virus programs and the game should work perfectly well after that.

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Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Update allows Xbox 360 gameplay!
Good news on the gaming front - Microsoft have finally started listening to their customer base (years after its release but never mind!) and have now applied an update to the Xbox One console allowing users to now play Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One console.

This is good news for those that spent years collecting 360 games and then invested in the new Xbox One only to find out that none of the old games could be played on it!

So now you can get out the retro games or purchase some classics from eBay for a fiver and get them working on your next gen console!

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Xbox One Live Streaming to Windows 10
So, something that we have been waiting for is finally here - Xbox One live streaming through to Windows 10!

You have to be in the Xbox Preview Program and obviously also have Windows 10 installed, but all you have to do to get this working is to fire up your Xbox One and enable the streaming in your settings.

To do this, go into your Xbox One Settings and go to Preferences, then ensure that you have enabled "Allow game streaming to other devices (beta)" like the image below:


Then you need to go onto your Windows 10 machine and open up the Xbox One app. You should also connect your Xbox One control pad to your machine through the USB port.

Select "Connect" from the left side menu and then add your Xbox One console. You then need to ensure that you click the "Stream" option towards the top middle of the page displayed.

When you have done this, you should then see your Xbox One displayed on your Windows 10 machine and off you go - simple as that!

There are a few bugs in the system as you would expect and Microsoft have said that they are working on them, but we would like to hear from you about your experiences with this new technology.

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Football Manager Classic 2015 Released for iPads
The best Football Management simulation game of them all has now launched on the iPad.

Football Manager 2015 Classic is basically the full game that you normally get on the PC but for the more modern iPads. This is great news for FM addicts and we have tested the game and it is absolutely brilliant and very highly recommended.

The game is a little on the pricey side at $19.99 US dollars or £14.99 in the UK but it is very much worth it.

You can get the game from the App Store using the link below:

Football Manager Classic 2015

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FIFA 15: Knuckleball Achievement
FIFA 15: Knuckleball Achievement with Alberto Costa of Aston Villa against Manchester United in the Premiership. Just run and whack it!

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Gaming Geeks Home - Website Merge
We have taken the decision to shut down our neglected sister website, gaminggeekshome and we have now merged all the posts from that site into our site here at techygeekshome.co.uk.

Most posts are pretty old so you will have to search through our archive to find them or click the "Gaming" tab on the menu above, but we will now adding more gaming features to our website as well as technical guides, news and utilities.

If you feel you would like to make a contribution on this side of the website, maybe by writing a review of a game you have recently played or any cool gameplay videos, then please feel free to send us an email to gaming@techygeekshome.co.uk and include your details so that we can credit you for the write up.

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Epic GTA V Car Jumps
Collection of epic car jumps from Grand Theft Auto V.

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Football Manager 2015 - Attacking Tactic
If you want to score an absolute shed load of goals on Football Manager 2015 then this is the tactic for you...

This is a very attacking tactic and we have been testing it for a few weeks now and yes, you do score a lot of goals but if you are not careful, you also concede just as many (we have had quite a few 5-5 draws!). So, if you are going to use this tactic, then we would advise that you have three quality central defenders and a world class goal keeper or else you will let in more than you will score.

The tactic looks like this:


As you can see, our defenders are hardly world class which is probably why we have leaked so many goals! But even with the misfiring Aston Villa, we scored over 90 goals in the last season. 

On a side note, if you can sign up Vagner Love - he is brilliant in the English Premiership! Also do not forgot that Victor Valdes is available on a free until the next transfer update comes out. Denis Suarez (its not Luis!) is also world class as is Odegaard.

If you really want to go for it, you can also push up your two wide men in to Attacking Midfielder positions like this:


But this is leaving you very short at the back so do not use this against the bigger teams or else it will be game over before you even get a chance to score!

So, if you want to download this tactic you can grab it using the link below:

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Microsoft Xbox One Controller Drivers for your Windows Computer
If you would like to use your Microsoft Xbox One controller with your PC or laptop, you can do this by simply installing the correct drivers on your computer and using the charging USB cable.

So, first of all, you should install the drivers, you can get these from the links below:

Windows x64 Drivers

Windows x86 Drivers

Once you have these drivers installed on your computer, take your Xbox One controller and the USB charging cable and plug it into the USB port on your computer.

Your computer will now quickly go through the plug and play hardware installation process and you should now find that you can use your Xbox One controller on your Windows machine.

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Football Manager 2015 - Will not load - Error 55 - Incomplete Installation
We recently had a number of issues with getting Football Manager 2015 to run after downloading the game through Steam. Whenever it tried to update just before starting the game, Steam would pop up an error stating Incomplete Installation Error 55.

Bit frustrating considering we paid £30 for a game we cannot now play!

However, a quick fix is available, all you need to do is run the following command (assuming this is where you have Steam installed):

 C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\bin\Steamservice.exe /Install   

You must ensure that Steam is fully closed before doing this and for good measure, might be worth running it from an elevated command prompt.

After doing this, Football Manager 2015 run with out any issues at all.

The problem apparently is to do with Anti-Virus programs stopping the steamservice.exe from fully installing.

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Download PC Drivers Now for Xbox One Controller
Softpedia have today reported that Microsoft have released the drivers to use your Xbox One controller with your Windows computer!

This is excellent news for gamers and long awaited.

See the full article here:

Download PC Drivers Now for Xbox One Controller

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Dead Rising 3 Review for the Xbox One Console
Dead Rising 3 for Xbox One, Zombie slaying fun.

PROS

Lots of replay value, better save system, hours
of fun game play.

CONS

Too many Zombies at times, some boring
missions, Humans enemies too tough.

REVIEW

With only seven days till an atomic bomb is dropped on
the city of Los Perdidos, Nick Ramos must escape from the zombie infested
streets before it’s too late. With every exit out of the city blocked, Nick
requires the aid of friends to escape whatever the cost may be. And so begins,
Dead Rising 3.

I would first like to say that this is only the second Dead Rising game I have played as I never got around to playing the second game. As a result my comparisons are between the first game and this one. That being said, I can easily say that Dead Rising 3 is the best launch game for the Xbox One.

While it may not be graphically impressive for the system, it makes up for it in its fun to play and highly addictive gameplay. The idea is simple, Zombies roam the streets and you simply
‘kill’ them with any weapon you can find, while finding other survivors and
helping them to safety. The weapons range from useless items like shampoo bottles
to the powerful battle-axes and swords. The game also boasts a good range of
guns with the likes of pistols, shotguns and machine guns.

Without a doubt the biggest selling point of this game is the ‘Blueprint Weapons’. Spread out around the game world are these blue prints that unlock combo weapons that deal more damage and also give higher XP points (PP in this game). One such example is when you combine a lead pipe with a
machine gun it creates a four barrel gun. Combing a Chainsaw with a meat cleaver will somehow create two mini chainsaws. These all make no sense in their logic but that just adds to the stupidity of the game which somehow works in its favour. It’s not a game to be taken too seriously nor does it try to be. There also blueprints to create vehicles that are used to travel between the four areas of the map. These are created by combining two types of transport together such as a bike with a steamroller which creates a sort of bike of death with flamethrowers on the front. Two cars will create a
Junk Car that can fire acid and then there is stranger ones like combining a forklift with a party van, I won’t spoil that one for you.

As I mentioned, the map is split into four main areas that are connected by two highways. They are all open world but as the game progresses, some the roads have military checkpoints setup to make it more of a challenge to get around. This is a little annoying at first but it is mainly
put there to make the gamer explore on foot more and see parts of the map you
may have simply drove past. The world contains countless shops, bars, restaurants and
other such places where the player can stock up on food and supplies at any time. Some shops also have clothing, which gives you the ability to change the look of Nick. They range from Mexican Wrestler, Fung Fu master and Beach Bum to
the even stranger ones such as Women’s Lingerie (O_O) dresses and ‘Cow Girl’
style clothing. While you may not want to wear these (or do, it’s your choice!)
it just adds to the humour of the game. Of course there are suits and tuxedos
as well if you wish to be sensible.

Touching on the subject of graphics, the game is one of the weaker entries at launch. Textures up close are quite good and the zombies do look amazing but it isn’t anything that couldn’t be done on the last generation consoles. But one thing this game does well though is keep up the
frame rate. At one point I was driving a car down the street with at least 200
if not 300 zombies on the screen at once and it played smoothly with no lag.
Cut scenes are very good with strong voice acting and believable character
movement.

One small point though is that Nick is always a little bit too surprised every time something happens. For example, while making my way to a location, I chop and smash my way through hundreds of Zombies with no real fear
in Nick’s performance. However, in the next cut-scene, he entries a room that has about six zombies and he acts with fear and horror and this scene is about halfway through the game. It’s not too bad to start with but when you havenkilled well over 30,000 zombies at this point, it doesn't match the game. The game does boast some of the strongest violence I have
ever seen in a game. You can chop off pretty much any part of the Zombies with
some strong graphic detail. At times, the violence is a little too strong but
this is why the game is an 18. If you dislike gore then you may not enjoy this
game.

Moving on to the sound, all I can say is they are clear and match the items well. Hitting something with wood sounds like wood and the same for metal. As I said the voice acting a truly well done if not a little cheesy. There is music in the game but it acts more of an ambiance that does
become more excitable when under attack from large groups but apart from that
you won’t even notice it half the time.

One last point is the game has a leveling up system that really does help in the game. Unlike the poor and tacked on leveling up in say
GTA5, this game pretty much requires you to do this to increase your health, strength and general speed in completing tasks.

I feel that this is really the only true full retail game that has been made for Xbox One. While all the other games are ports (COD, BF4)
or are barely even a shadow of the previous games in its series (Forza 5), this does feel like a full game from start to finish. Nothing feels left out for DLC and there is more content then you could wish for. I do have suspicions that
this game might have already been in production for Xbox 360 and at some point
was ported over as it is so large for a launch game. But those are just my
theories.

Overall, DR3 is a truly fun blood and guts game that has
moments of horror and comedy. It may be a little frustrating at times but the
overall game is enjoyable you should at the very least try it as a rental.

Best Xbox One launch game.

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Wolfenstein The New Order Walkthrough
If you are playing Wolfenstein The New Order, you may want a walkthrough guide to help you with some of the trickier parts. Look no further - below is a 54 minute walkthrough taking you through part 1 of the game.



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EA & Need For Speed Rivals - Nothing but problems!
Recently, I started playing Need for Speeds Rivals on the new Xbox One console. This is a title that I'm very familiar with and have played all versions over the many years of the Need for Speed franchise.

However, Rivals has been nothing but a major disappointment - don't get me wrong, the game itself is brilliant - no complaints there, the problem is with the bugs in the game.

Firstly, once installed and having gone through the rather long tutorial, I end up at the Police Command Center ready to race. However there is one problem with that - my car will not accelerate forwards or backwards!

So, I contacted EA support and got one of their live technical support guys. After much messing around, I decided that I'd just pull the power from the Xbox One console and try again - this worked, I started the game up again and the car moved and off I went to continue playing my new game. Great!

I then noticed after a few days of game play that the loading of the game was taking longer and longer, sometimes up to 10 minutes to load. WHY?! This I have still not got to the bottom of, although I've changed my AllDrive settings to Friends only instead of public and this has speeded things up a bit - although I'm losing out on the public AllDrive (that I'm not too bothered about...).

Then, yesterday, the final straw. I had got to around level 19 on the cop chapters. I had a spare hour so I thought that I'd fire up the game and use the spare time wisely by jumping into my Lamborghini I had left behind the day before. The game loaded up and I noticed that I had a Marussia and that I was on chapter 4 - what is all that about?!

Having found this post on EA forums....

My Progress on my profile have been erased XBOX ONE

I added my comments to it and then went back to EA support. Eventually I got yet another useless chap obviously with a script and we ran through all the usual crap you have to go through with support folk and after numerous reboots of the Xbox One, he then came out with the line:

"Sorry Sir but your saved game is corrupt, there is nothing I can do to help, you will have to start again"

Well - not good enough. Why has it corrupt? How has it corrupt? in 25 years of gaming I don't think I've ever hit a corrupt saved game on a console! Now the most advanced console in the world is doing this along with (according to the EA forum post above..) huge amounts of other people.

Come on EA - admit your mistakes and give us a refund! I won't go into the problems I've had with Fifa and Battlefield just yet!

We'd love to hear from you if you have had similar experiences with EA games and in particular Need for Speed Rivals.

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XBox One - Need for Speed - Rivals - Car will not move!
We have had reports of people purchasing Need for Speed: Rivals for their Xbox One and installing the game, starting the tutorial at the beginning and then to find that the car does not move!!

A quick fix for this is to completely power off your Xbox One console and start up the game again - this should now work fully and will not happen again...


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