EA Sports sims smarter than you might think

So an octopus named Paul predicted a bunch of World Cup matches correctly, pfft, so what - he'll be dead in two years anyway. That's if the Germans don't eat him before that. What's really interesting is that EA Sports used their 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa title to simulate the World Cup, a first for the developer, and it also picked Spain as the winner. Now that's hardly impressive by itself, until you consider that EA Sports have been using their Madden franchise to simulate the NFL Super Bowl for 7 years, and it has only picked the winner wrong once.

EA Sports will no doubt carry this World Cup prediction practice into the future, so before placing a bet on the outright winner in Brazil 2010, it might be worth hanging out for the games industry giant to chime in. On that note, 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa has taken a price dive, so if you're after some cheap football fun on your console, now's the time!