Miles Jacobson Obe: Last News

Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson OBE has shared that the studio would have been “more than happy” to feature Apple TV‘s Ted Lasso in Football Manager 23, though says EA “got there first” with FIFA 23.While discussing Football Manager 2023‘s approach to realism, Jacobson told NME that the Football Manager series has a history of embracing its lighter side, with a range of fictional or humourous crossovers available to play in prior games.“There used to be this show on Sky called Dream Team, featuring a team called Harchester United. Harchester United were in Football Manager,” shared Jacobson.

Sports Interactive has shared an update on the “multi-year project” of adding women’s football to the Football Manager series, though it won’t be ready in time for Football Manager 23.Speaking to NME, Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson OBE shared that progress on adding women’s football is going “alright,” and said that a more detailed update would be shared with a blog in the “next couple of weeks.”“On the research side, we’ve made some really big decisions recently to be able to kick that off properly, we’ve got a bunch of researchers around the world who are busy beavering away,” said Jacobson. “Animation-wise, we’re 90 per cent complete now with the motion capture animation that we’re looking at doing.