Despite a lingering scrappiness, this is the best PES in an age (provided you're not playing on PC).
Feature“I want to be seen as the best”
What drives a semi professional PES player to the top.
One of my favourite things about being a football fan is that the game isn't the only thing you hear about any more. The demands of a seemingly insatiable 24 hour news media has meant that journalists get the chance to tell stories that go beyond the sport itself.
Diego Maradona threatens to sue Konami over PES 2017 likeness
UPDATE: Konami says player likeness is being used "appropriately, with the basis of the license."
UPDATE 03/04/2017 5.28pm: Konami has issued the following somewhat confusing statement regarding the Diego Maradona lawsuit to Kotaku:
The new Konami is doing very well indeed
Profits up in the post-Hideo Kojima world.
Konami is the not the Konami of old. The Japanese company has ditched Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and big-budget console video game development in general in favour of mobile games, casino machines and... gyms.
PES 2017 has a permanent Trial Edition
Plus, Anfield's new main stand.
Konami has announced a permanent Trial Edition of PES 2017.
PES 2017 to get Liverpool stadium's new stand in November
Your move, FIFA 17.
When FIFA 17 came out, Liverpool fans moaned (shock horror, I know) about the lack of Anfield's new stand in-game.
The dog's Busquets.
What is it about football games? While fans of other genres can expect not just consistent output but steady improvement from their favourite series, those of us to whom pressing X means pass rather than jump have long known it's best to approach our major releases with trepidation. One year the game might feel too slow, the next too fast. One year it's too easy to score, another too hard. In what other iterative releases are the core mechanics in such a state of constant flux?
(I have a theory about the most talented developers not being interested in sports - but we'll save that for another time.)
Take last year's PES, for example. While the game was universally well-received, its flaws - such as lenient referees and dodgy 'keepers - hadn't been apparent in its predecessors. If key parts of the game work less well in 2016 than they did in 2010, what faith can we have that the series is really getting any better?
PES 2017's unlicensed club team names are as brilliant as ever
East Dorsetshire vs South Norwood? Why not?
If you, like me, played PES back in the day, you'll remember with fondness the silly names for clubs Konami came up with because it didn't have official licenses.
Has nine clubs, including Arsenal.
A PES 2017 demo comes out on 24th August 2016 in Europe on PlayStation 4, PS3, Xbox One and Xbox 360. There's no demo for PC.
FIFA 17 partners with Man United, so PES 2017 partners with Liverpool
*Grabs Kloppcorn*
As a die hard Chelsea fan I could not be more delighted to report that PES 2017 has partnered with Liverpool.
FeatureNew licences and a new feistiness see PES take the fight to FIFA
Konami reaches for the big guns with PES 2017.
The media room deep inside the west stand of the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona has hosted all manner of announcements and unveilings over the course of the famous stadium's 59-year history but not many, you suspect, quite like this.
FeaturePro Evolution Soccer 2017 is a slower, more considered spin on Konami's series
Yes, Konami is still making video games (and yes it's fixing the roster updates).
The first surprise, perhaps, is that Konami is still actively making big budget console titles. Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 isn't a new Pachinko machine - it's a proper, bona fide video game. It's a very good one, too, as you might have expected if you've been paying attention to PES's return to grace in recent years, topped off in in 2016 with arguably the most exquisite PES yet, even if it it was let down slightly by its stunted roster updates that saw it lag behind its competition even as it trumped it in most other areas.
Here's our first look at PES 2017
Squad goals.
Konami's announced PES 2017, due out this autumn, alongside a few screenshots.
