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The score was out of reach. The fans had given up. The result would have no effect on the season. Nothing suggested Greg Jennings and the Green Bay Packers were about to execute the most famous come-from-ahead touchdown miracle in NFL history. More »
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The Madden NFL-inspired Pecover Vs. EA federal class-action antitrust lawsuit picks up steam, as law firm Hagens Berman notifies class members they have until June 25 to be excluded from a potential payday. More »
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Raptr, the gaming social network counting more than a million users, examined their gamers' habits with Madden NFL 10 and found gameplay spikes sharply - beyond Christmas-sales levels - about a month before the newest version releases. More »
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Cowboys fans have no shortage of pride in their team. Confidence, different story. Chewblaha faced a guy who demanded his opponent pick the Lions. He took the challenge and took him down with "the greatest 63-yard drive in Madden history." More »
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An estimated 350,000 people played last year's Madden NFL 10 once online and never played it online again, series creative director Ian Cummings recently told Kotaku. More »
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Four American gamers lost to non-Americans in the second annual Gillette EA Sports Champions of Gaming Tournament in New York City last night. But then, in a twist, two pro athletes beat two of the tournament-winning gamers. More »
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Sometimes I wonder if, in the future, a sports commissioner raised among our generation will fire up NBA 2K37 at the end of a terrible week, and let his cares melt away in a league where nothing bad ever happens. More »
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Seen in the health and beauty care aisle at Target, where one doesn't expect the Madden NFL 10 demo discs to be. Thanks, Nicholas! More »
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A week ago EA Sports removed Kurt Warner and other NFL players who retired at the end of the season from the final Madden roster update. Pressure from the game's community and a sports gaming website has restored them. More »
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EA Sports is mighty proud that its Madden NFL simulation has correctly predicted the Super Bowl winner all but one time since it's run the promotion. But how did its predictions for the season, made back in August, turn out? More »
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Speaking to Bloomberg Television, EA Sports boss Peter Moore said his division will soon introduce a version of its Madden NFL game to Facebook users, saying it is essential that the football simulation be made more accessible. More »
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Every year since 2004, EA Sports has used Madden NFL to predict the outcome of the Super Bowl, and they've only been wrong one time. Is a New Orleans Saints win guaranteed? More »
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The second patch for EA Sports' Madden NFL 10 adds the tribute helmet sticker Tennessee is wearing for Steve McNair, murdered in the offseason by his deranged mistress. Philadelphia defensive coordinator Jim Johnson also gets the memorial treatment. More »
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I can't imagine how scary it is for a developer to pitch a football video game when their name isn't EA Sports. I imagine a room full of people going dead silent before someone says, "You mean like Madden?" More »
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With at least one potential game of the year exclusively nesting on the Playstation 3 and a price drop under its belt, the PS3 has had a pretty darn good year. More »
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New Halo, new downloadables for Mass Effect, Fallout 3, and Grand Theft Auto, new Forza. It was a pretty good year for Xbox 360 owners. More »
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Cris Collinsworth took over as the color analyst for the Madden franchise last year. John Madden retired from broadcasting this year. As this video suggests, it's only a matter of time before the ex-Bengals receiver takes over the title More »
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If anyone was crazy enough to spend $4 on a tiny virtual football jersey it's those whacky NFL Football fans. More »
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The so-called Madden Curse, which doesn't involve witch doctors as much as it does wacky concepts like "regression to the mean" and "injuries in a full-contact sport," claimed one of this year's two cover boys in week one. More »
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Prior to the release of Wolfenstein, Raven Software designer Manveer Heir promised a full refund to anyone who bought the game if it outsold this year's Madden. It did not. It didn't come close, actually, according to NPD Group estimates. More »
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Madden NFL 10 co-cover athlete Troy Polamalu did just fine in the season opener between the Titans and the Steelers last night, until an injury put him out of commission for 3 to 6 weeks. More »
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Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello had a right to be discouraged by sales of the latest Madden NFL football game from EA Sports. While it managed to be August's bestselling game in the U.S., sales were definitely down. More »
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This year's sales of Madden NFL football may not be living up to Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello's expectations. He calls sales of Madden NFL 10 "discouraging," indicating they're down from the previous year's. More »
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Travel back in time to the 1960's before the fourth American Football League became the AFC with the AFL Legacy Pack, due out later this month for Madden NFL 10. More »
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"Small, unmarked bills" is the clichéd demand of an armed robber. Not in Jacksonville, Fla. A holdup artist told a GameStop employee to fill his bag with games - Madden NFL 10, to be precise. More »
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Well, well. Now we know why Gameloft was in such a hurry to get NFL 2010 for the iPhone out the door this month. EA Mobile says Madden NFL 10 will release to the iTunes store by opening day. More »
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Did you buy a copy of Madden NFL from its 2006 version forward? You too can be a plaintiff in the lawsuit against Electronic Arts, over its exclusive-rights arrangement with the NFL. More »
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Ah, August, the time for two-a-days, water breaks, and EA Sports making special dedicated announcements for Brett Favre. The publisher of Madden NFL 10 says Favre will join Michael Vick on the next roster update, which goes out tomorrow. More »
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Not unless your name is Taylor H. He was chosen at random from more than 500 correctly answering entrants, the Charger fan living in Eagles country - Lancaster, Pa., to be exact - took home my copy of Madden NFL 10. More »
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A lot of the year-to-year "advances" in Madden are about as subtle as noticing the change in typefaces in the white pages. "Real-time natural grass growth physics." "Crowd boos its own mascot." "Authentic third-quarter beer cutoff." You get the drill. More »
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EA sent me two copies of Madden NFL 10 by mistake. So I'm giving the second away, but I want to be sure it goes to a San Diego Chargers fan. Or at least someone who knows NFL history. More »
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As we reported Friday, EA Sports will add Michael Vick to its Madden NFL 10 roster on Aug. 19, pending league approval. ESPN got a hold of Vick's game attributes, and as expected, he's off his Madden 08 form. More »
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Twitter reveals the story of Chad Johnson Ocho Cinco's afternoon today, in which the Bengals receiver boasts of his gamer cred, can't configure his wireless, fulminates at the lack of avatars that look like him, and finally tweets his gamertag. More »
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Time was, EA Sports' Madden franchise released on the weekend, not a Tuesday. "Madden Football Friday" predated the "Madden Holiday" of the past dozen or so years, and it returned again this week. But is it back for good? More »
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Last night the Springfield, Ore., Game Crazy treated about a dozen people to tailgate food and a Madden tournament. Despite the hype, the launch memories many of them shared had little to do with the highest-selling franchise of all time. More »
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Within hours of Madden NFL 10's midnight launch, NFL pariah Michael Vick was signed to a two-year contract with Philadelphia. Vick's not included on the retail version's roster, so an immediate question is, when will he be added? More »
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EA Sports has come up with a way to get online franchise codes for Madden NFL 10 to anyone who bought the game and didn't find their code printed on the back of the instruction manual. More »
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Australia, homeland of beloved former Chargers punter Darren Bennett, got Madden NFL 10 a day earlier than the rest of the world - part of that whole day-ahead, winter-is-summer, up-is-down, toilets-flush-in-reverse thing. But they didn't get free Online Franchise codes. More »
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This year's Madden launch is midnight Friday, rather than Tuesday. So if you're picking it up at 12:01 a.m., if you're going to a retailer party, if you're already playing with a broken street date copy, send us your pics. More »
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Madden football is always like a new girlfriend. You spend about four dates wondering where this is going, and then maybe something happens that makes you want to spend all your time with her. More »
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