World Basketball Manager (WBM) is a basketball strategy game. It uses the same game-play principles as most soccer management games do and covers all basketball action around the world with 89 national and international tournaments, 852 teams, 10.000 basketball players and 1.000 managers.

WBM has been around since 2003 with a new edition every year and has managed to earn a place in the market as one of the most highly acclaimed games of its genre. The accurate representation of the basketball world forces the players to make the same decisions and face the same problems as their real life counterparts. It deals not only with the sport aspect of the game, but also with financial, managerial, administrative, training, psychological and PR situations that arise in the everyday life of a basketball manager.

Undoubtedly the biggest success of WBM is the real time match engine that produces realistic results and accurate match statistics, using a genetic algorithm for the A. I.

Another huge plus of the game is the big network of researchers that help in data and tournament updates.

All of the above helped WBM establish itself in the minds and hearts of basketball and sports sims enthusiasts over the past few years, with an already impressive and ever growing community supporting the game.

WBM 2009 is here to expand the series with impressive new features and improvements that include:

• Better control in your career and club economics using the ability to make demands to the Administration.
• Improved match algorithm.
• Improved interface.
• Short keys make navigation easier.
• New code makes daily update 27% faster.
• Financial bonus for managers that "build" teams.
• Cohesion bonus for teams with many native players.
• Improved transfers algorithms so that clubs buy more players under contract and less free agents. This will help you sell more players.
• Ability to arrange friendly matches.
• Better fouls balance.
• Ability to cancel timeouts.
• 22 new tournaments raise the total number to 89.
• All major tournament formats have been updated.
• Available in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish and Turkish.
• The most detailed data research so far.
• Windows Vista 64 support.
• Updated Data Editor.
• Ability to change skins.
• Ability to select news breaks in daily update.

World Basketball Manager 2009, developed by Icehole, is currently looking for a publisher.