PES 2022?’ we’ve got some bad news for you: Konami has announced that from this year onwards, its perennial sports franchise will be called eFootball.
Under its new name, the series will become a free-to-play digital-only football experience arriving later this year. It’s quite a departure from what fans are used to from the series to date, then.This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the series change its name, though: back in the day, Konami called its football franchise Winning Eleven.
Then it became Pro Evolution Soccer. Now it’s eFootball. And it’s not just a name change: Konami has announced that eFootball is a free-to-play, “all-new football simulation platform” developed in Unreal Engine, ditching the Fox Engine it used in generations.
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