Following up on my earlier post about innovation in console gaming and online communities.

Fifa 10 is really stepping it up now. They have a world EA Sports Fifa community in Beta and it looks really promising.

Through the web you can check out the real time popularity of teams in the console game. Logging in also connects your own contribution in the contest.

Through the console you get real time updates to your favorite teams and league tables. As I understand you can also play the RL league games on your console. I got to check this out..

What kind of possibilities does this open up? It will be exciting to follow the evolving features..

Read more about Live Season on producer Marcel Kuhn’s new blog at Off The Bench.