We don't really do news especially with the likes of WENB around but if you're after a synopsis of the news so far on PES 2009 you could do worse then check out our thread in the PES 360/PS3 forum that summarises the announcements and media released so far.

There's also a seperate thread for discussion should you decide you need to air your views on the above.

To summarise it further, it appears to be a shiny PES 5 with knobs on.

We've restructured our forums to better cover the different flavours of PES and also to allow its main competitor to have its own space as well. The changes are as follows:

The PES PlayStation forum is now PES Xbox 360 and PS3 and will cover discussion of the games for the current generation of consoles.

The PES Other Consoles forum is now PES PS2 and Wii to cover the earlier or different versions of the PES game engine.

The Other Football Games forum is now a FIFA forum to cover any FIFA based discussion. With a few exceptions this was already a FIFA forum in everything other than name so it's merely an acknowledgement of what people have been asking us to do recently. Any other football games are now covered by the Other Games forum.

The Online Gaming forum is back as a main forum again and should be used from now on to organise any online leagues and tournaments regardless of the game.

The Non-English forum has been closed and removed. It was an experimental forum and never really took off after the initial interest.

Existing threads have or will be moved to match the new setup. If you have any questions or comments about these changes, feel free to reply here.

The staffing situation has stabilised after a few recent changes so I wanted to confirm the team that we have in place to look after the forums.

Completely new to the team are OPM and Red_Phoenix. The German Evo-Web connection being strengthened further. Both have contributed positively to the forums over the years and I'm sure will continue to do the good job that they've started.

Hawke and eddy edwards had been moderators in the past but for some reason weren't, anyway they're back in the fold fully.

A full list of the staff and where they usually lurk can be found in the Site forum and will be kept updated.

The staff are extremely important to the site and how it runs so I'd like to publicly thank everyone that donates their own time to keep Evo-Web going in a mostly orderly fashion.

After seven years of sterling service to Evo-Web, one of the founding members, Chris Wright (CW) will be stepping down from his role as Administrator at my request. The change will take effect over the next couple of weeks.

The decision has been made over a couple of months and is one that hasn't been made lightly. I have only come to this conclusion because I believe in the long run it is the right thing to do.

Evo-Web has been suffering a little over the last year or two and this change is the start of a planned rebirth to inject new life into it and bring it back to being the hub of independent Pro Evo (and other football games) based discussion.

Having worked with Chris for a while we have had our occasional differences with how the site operates, which has eventually culminated in this move but his loyalty to Evo-Web has not been in question. Indeed, he was here before me when the initial site founder first installed a forum package and christened it "Evo-Web".

Chris will hopefully continue to play an active part in the community and has indicated his wish to do so. The Evo-Web predicts game will still be run by him unless he gets too annoyed with me.

I am a genuine person and honestly thank Chris for the work he's put into the site over the years and the help he has given me along the way. While this is just a little forum on the internet, the people behind it are real (man) and the respect I have for them is unfeigned.

Gamesweasel got to ask three questions. One of which turned out to be why PES 2008 was an absolute disgrace to modern day gaming.

You can find the details at Gamesweasel.

The producer of the Gamesweasel podcast will be interviewing the team behind Pro Evolution Soccer next week - they'd really like some questions from the real fans of Pro Evo that they can grill the developers with; so if you'd like to put some forward for the interview then you can post them here.

They hope you'll see this as a good opportunity for fans to get some feedback over to the developers for the 2009 version.

As a cynical web admin, I hope they'll listen.

EDIT: It turns out this is only about the Wii version.

Announcing www.pes2008league.com.

The new PES 2008 league is a fully automated tournament where players battle their way through several divisions to try and reach the one and only Premier League where the winner of the tournament is decided.

There's support to find the best player for each platform for PlayStation 2/3, Xbox 360 and PC.

To welcome 2008 to our football videogaming community we have just added a videos section to the site - http://video.evo-web.co.uk/. It can be used to upload videos in the same way YouTube and other pale imitations are. Any video can be uploaded as long as it's relevant to the site and adheres to the same forum rules used everywhere else (see the FAQ section).

You'll need to create a seperate login to use on the video site but providing you were a member on Saturday 22nd December 2007 you should find that your login details from the forums work fine for the video site too.

The video section is still in development so we'd appreciate feedback/comments on how you find it. There's a thread in the site forum for this purpose.

Enjoy.