Fox Sports and Watercooler Look To Score With Epic Goal Facebook Soccer Game

Sports is a largely untapped genre on Facebook and companies are looking to grab a piece of the pie in order to take advantage of a highly engaged audience that loves sports. We’ve covered news like ESPN’s partnership with Playdom to launch branded sports games this fall, signaling a strong interest from sports media companies in the social gaming space. The latest announcement comes from Watercooler, makers of Kingdoms of Camelot, who is partnering with Fox Sports to release a soccer game called Epic Goal on the web and Facebook.

The casual title differs from EA’s latest fantasy soccer management game on Facebook by providing a playable action game, somewhat similar to a console experience.

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