PES 2017 Officially Announced With New Gameplay Features and Screenshots

Konami officially announced the release of Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 on Wednesday. Per a press release provided to me from Konami, the game is set to premiere during theUEFA Champions League Final in Milan and 2016 PES World Finals of the UEFA Champions League eSports event on May 27-28.

While the debut stage is a large and impressive one, this announcement comes as no surprise considering how well the last two versions of the game have been received. PES 2015 and 2016 garnered Metacritic scores of 82 and 87, respectively. When you compare that to the scores for FIFA 15 (82) and 16 (82), the argument could be made that PEShas eliminated the gap between the two franchises.

Per Konami, there are nine highlighted new features/focus areas in the initial information rollout. They can be divided into two categories: gameplay and visuals. Let’s look at the planned visual improvements first.

Precise Pass

Combining Real Touch and real ball physics, passing is an art form in PES 2017. Many factors determine the speed and accuracy of the ball. The pass that is made on the best situation and timing will generate a perfect trajectory, creating a great satisfaction when a killer pass is made.

Real Touch

See how different players control the ball in unique and different ways based on where and how you control them, dictating the flow of the game based on how they react to the unpredictable movement of the ball.




Advanced Instructions

Strategies that are quite individually defined such as Tiki-taka and Tight Marking which is strongly based on team ideology can be set in Advanced Instructions, which adds a huge variety in how you plan to win.




Goal Keeping


Keepers see a great jump in quality through added motions and animations, creating the most agile keepers in PES history. Attacking moments will be more dramatic than ever, bringing the best feeling of achievement when that goal is scored.




Corner Kick Strategies

Control the defensive strategies on a set piece, such as marking zonal or Man to Man. Offensive options also included such as specific player movement.




Total Team Control


Users can instantly change the attacking and defending mentality of the team, which can be tweaked and carefully controlled with simple controls, being able to immediately react to the unpredictability of the sport.




Authentic Visuals


For PES 2017 the visuals have seen a major upgrade, offering Authentic Visuals thanks to the further incorporation of Fox Engine. Nothing has been left untouched, from player models, lighting, crowds, pitch and stadiums totally revamped. Never has a game looked so real.




Adaptive AI


For the first time in a football game, the AI will learn how you play! Player and team behaviour has always been a staple of the PES series, and for PES 2017 Adaptive AI will change sports games forever.




Natural Player Movement


Hundreds of new animations have been added to bring the players and goalkeepers to life – but it doesn't stop there. New features such as Real Touch and Precise Pass see huge benefit, giving a vast array of movements when trapping and passing the ball.


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GoDaddy made an app for entrepreneurs to get feedback on their startup ideas

While most associate GoDaddy with domains, the company has become an integral part of supporting small businesses around the world. Whether this is by providing email hosting, website creation, or SEO services, the site is often the first stop for someone thinking about starting a small business online.

And interestingly enough, the company even said that customers will frequently call GoDaddy’s customer support line to pitch and get feedback on their business ideas.

The team at GoDaddy saw an opportunity. Why not create a community where these customers can connect with fellow entrepreneurs, investors, and even GoDaddy senior management to get feedback on their businesses?

So Flare was born.

Launching today, the app lets users create a business idea and ask other users yes or no questions that better help them understand if there is a market for their product or service. For example, you could submit an idea for on-demand cookie delivery, and ask the question “would you pay $10 for this?”. Other users can then see ideas and answer yes or no, giving valuable feedback to the entrepreneur.

The app’s main page is a list of three ideas that you can either swipe left to ignore, or swipe right to indicate interest in. If more than 10 people indicate interest in a specific idea, it becomes popular, and enters the stage where users can answer the various questions posted by the entrepreneur. But why only three ideas and not a scrolling list? GoDaddy wanted to maximize the amount of feedback each entrepreneur would get, so it is forcing users to give a yes or no answer as to if they like the idea.

One cool feature – the app will tell you what business ideas were submitted from entrepreneurs in your area. This is especially useful for brick and mortar based ideas, like a retail store or restaurant.

Flare will also verify certain users to give them credibility, a way the company hopes to increase the chances that small-time business owners can get feedback from CEOs and other well-known businesspeople. GoDaddy’s CEO Blake Irving will be on the app at launch, as well as other senior management from the company.

Rene Reinsberg, VP of Emerging Products at GoDaddy, explained that the goal is to allow entrepreneurs to get feedback on businesses at the idea stage, since nowadays most crowdfunding campaigns (which were arguably once supposed to be built just around ideas) require a lot of upfront polish and capital.

That being said, GoDaddy obviously has a vested interest in encouraging as many people as possible to start companies, as more small-businesses started means more services purchased from GoDaddy.

But in the company’s defense, there is currently no connection between the app and GoDaddy services. While Reinsberg did mention that they could potentially add services down the road like connecting Flare users with someone to build a website for their new idea, this definitely isn’t yet on the product roadmap, and isn’t even necessarily a bad thing.

Ultimately, if used responsibly by its user base, Flare can end up being a legitimate benefit to entrepreneurs looking for a little extra feedback than they are getting through existing channels.

Flare is available now for download on the iOS App Store, and will come to the Google Play Store next month.

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Top 15 quotes every Enterprenuer should know on leadership

Every Enterprenuer is responsible for the success of their business.
With that kind of pressure, it’s easy to feel stressed, lonely and overwhelmed at times.
That why I am giving my favourite quotes from great leaders on being a great leader.

1. Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter." Jaachynma N.E. Agu

2. “A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.” - Ovid

3. “It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)” - Latin Proverb

4. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” - Albert Schweitzer

5. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” - Andrew Carnegie

6. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

7. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” - Jim Rohn

8. "My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better." - Steve Jobs

9. “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” - Peter Drucker

10. "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." – Jack Welch

11. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” - Brian Tracy

12. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” - Aristotle

13. "A leader...is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind." - Nelson Mandela

14. "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams

15. "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." – Rosalynn Carter

About author :
Joshua is writer, programmer and an animator. He also loves playing games in his leisure time.