Reddit noticed this today, as did EA Sports' official forums in December. And now it's confirmed: EA Sports based its Football Ultimate Team card for Pelé, the greatest footballer in history, off a 44-year-old picture of him relaxing in the tub.
If Football—that is, the American National Football League football—used the same naming scheme as "Dungeons & Dragons," we'd call it "Beer Commercials & Cheerleaders."
Motions captured. Whether you care about Madden games or not, this short video from The New York Times, offers a cool inside look into how motion capture is done for a video game. Gotta love the part about mo-capping "fidgets." Seems fun!
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With the Super Bowl around the corner, it seems important to put all the hype behind the big event into perspective—particularly if you think the average sports fan and video game fan have nothing in common.
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The Super Bowl is coming up. It's one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Weirdly, this is in spite of the majority of people on this planet not knowing how the hell American Football is actually played.
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Immensely popular and ridiculously lucrative, the Madden NFL series of video games is an entertainment behemoth. It is also forever and inextricably tied to its source material: the real, live version of the sport it simulates. It is the Christopher Reeve of video games, never really discussed on its own merits, but in …
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EA Sports managed to goad Madden NFL pitchmen Colin Kaepernick and Russell Wilson into making one incredibly ridiculous bet when their teams meet next week: The loser will shave off an eyebrow. Not in the game, either, in real life.
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DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket, the service delivering all over-the-air NFL games broadcast on Sunday afternoons during the league's regular season, will no longer be offered on the PlayStation 3. IGN reports that Sony has confirmed the end of the arrangement.
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Once upon a time there wasn't much of a dispute over the word "football." Over here, it meant cheerleaders, instant replay, and concussions. Over there, it meant relegation, riots, and flopping. Then came the Internet, and commenters stomping around in one another's mud puddles.
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Queens Park Rangers offered a club-record sum to acquire Loïc Rémy, the French international footballer, from Marseille, but to hear the striker tell of it, the money wasn't the deciding factor; it was a video game.
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At this point, I feel like I don't have to introduce "Bad Lip-Reading," the mega genius works of music and misinterpretation whose ranks include Twilight 's gummi bear and Michael Bublé's "Russian Unicorn," that second one better known as my Actual Favorite Thing On The Entire Internet.
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I've written before about how RPGs parallel football in many ways, and how the ebb and flow of an NFL game mirrors traditional turn-based combat.
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I watch a lot of football. I play a lot of RPGs. And I've always had this theory that they're not all that different.
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Lots of people make jokes about how fantasy football is an RPG for jocks and blah blah blah. It's really not. It's more like a complex version of roulette.
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