FIFA 19: In a league of its own

Fifa 19 will be at the top of many Christmas lists. Ed Power explains how it has become the world’s biggest video game

It was the summer of 1992 and in an apartment in Vancouver’s eastern suburb of Burnaby, Bruce McMillan was sleeping with the lights on. More accurately, the source of the illumination was a computer monitor which McMillan, a team lead at the Canadian division of computer games giant EA Sports, made sure to leave on through the night. On it, tiny pixellated figures dashed after a ball.