The Super Bowl is almost here, which means it's time to pretend you care about football! Being a Bears fan, I'm all about whatever makes people the unhappiest, since my team isn't playing for. Do I actually have to root for the Patriots? I might be sick. I need something else to keep my mind off the thought of… » 1/30/15 2:00pm Friday 2:00pm

A federal appeals court ruled a lawsuit by ex-NFL players against Electronic Arts can move forward, the AP reports. The lawsuit seeks compensation over Madden NFL featuring ex-players on "historical" teams in everything but name. EA lost a similar lawsuit brought by ex-NCAA players. The company settled for $40 million. » 1/06/15 6:25pm 1/06/15 6:25pm

Donny Moore is in charge of determining player ratings in Madden (and rates them on Twitter, too). Sometimes he ranks people too high, and sometimes he ranks people way too low: » 8/26/14 1:58pm 8/26/14 1:58pm

Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman will be the latest player to grace the cover of the Madden series—he'll be on the cover of Madden NFL 15 when it comes out in August. » 6/06/14 8:45pm 6/06/14 8:45pm

The upcoming video game Football Heroes: Pro Edition will sport a license from the NFL Players Association, making it one of the only non-Madden game in a decade to include pro football players' names, according to the game's creators and the players' group. » 5/30/14 1:15pm 5/30/14 1:15pm

Aww, look at his little soccer ball head. Celebrating the onset of soccer fever, Activision is releasing special edition Skylanders: Swap Force toy 'Kickoff' Countdown (clever) this Sunday, May 18, at ToysRUs locations across the country and online. » 5/14/14 2:20pm 5/14/14 2:20pm

Did you think sports games would be safe from the industry-wide insistence on turning everything into a first person shooter? I hope not. » 5/06/14 9:00pm 5/06/14 9:00pm

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! » 1/29/14 1:19pm 1/29/14 1:19pm

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. » 1/28/14 1:00pm 1/28/14 1:00pm

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. » 1/22/14 9:30pm 1/22/14 9:30pm

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… » 9/18/13 11:34am 9/18/13 11:34am

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. » 9/10/13 12:00pm 9/10/13 12:00pm

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. » 8/13/13 10:00pm 8/13/13 10:00pm

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. » 6/15/13 7:00pm 6/15/13 7:00pm

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. » 1/17/13 7:30pm 1/17/13 7:30pm

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. » 1/16/13 10:30pm 1/16/13 10:30pm

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. » 10/23/12 1:00pm 10/23/12 1:00pm