NFL's Sunday Ticket Pulled from PlayStation 3
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.
Inside EA Sports, Why Madden Must Be Called 'American Football'
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.
Football: The Kotaku Review
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."
Footballer Makes Million-Dollar Move After Playing a Video Game With…
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.
Oh God, It's A Bad Lip-Reading Of The Entire NFL
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
Wow, Final Fantasy's Combat Really Is Based On Football
I've written before about how RPGs parallel football in many ways
If You're Mexican, You Can't Speak Spanish to FIFA 13. But You Can Speak …
Football Is Basically An RPG
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.
Madden's Loss of Fantasy Exposes the Reality of Sports Video Games
How To Turn Fantasy Football Into An RPG
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.
Wii U's Touchscreen Features Prominently in FIFA 13's Shooting, Passing…
Scottish Team's Bankruptcy Means FIFA 13 Faces a Financial Decision, Too
Here are the 64 Players Vying for the Madden 13 Cover—I Think
In past years I've used the Saturday before the Super Bowl to handicap the field for the next cover of Madden NFL. Since the last time I did that, EA Sports put the honors up to a fan-voted, 32-player tournament in 2011, and on Thursday announced it was doubling that field to 64 for 2012.
NFL 2K5 Says New England Wins a Super Bowl Shootout
Earlier this week, the official Madden NFL 12 simulation of Super Bowl XLVI took both the underdog and the under for the first time in the past nine years, calling the New York Giants as 27-24 winners
Tebow Works Another Fourth Quarter Miracle—in Madden Bowl
His season may be over, but Tebow Time has not run out. And if last night's news about the Madden NFL 13 cover is any indication, get ready to see a lot more of the Denver quarterback during the off-season.
Fans to Pick Next Madden Cover from a Field of 64 Players
At Madden Bowl XVIII, EA Sports' Anthony Stevenson just announced that the cover athlete for Madden NFL will be voted on by fans for a second year. This year's field will be doubled to 64 candidates, and the first round of voting will be a "play-in" round pitting NFL teammates against each other to determine their…
The Long-Forgotten Threat That 'Always' Made Madden Nervous
So much is made of NFL 2K5 and the blaze-of-glory conclusion to its rivalry with Madden NFL that it's easy to forget another title once threatened EA Sports' glamour franchise. In fact, the Madden team also feared NFL GameDay until the end.
EA Sports Drafts Two from MIT, Colorado State
Four months ago, EA Sports opened up applications for a four-month fellowship
EA Sports Envisioned Return to PC with "Madden NFL Online"
EA Sports, which ended publication of Madden NFL for the PC in 2008, evidently had plans to return to that platform through a browser-based game sometime in 2010, according to mockups created by a former staff designer. The label was serious enough about the project to build a working, mouse-driven interface for the…
Tecmo Bowl's Still Running After Touching Down at 20
Chet Holzbauer can't remember any other gift from that mad Christmas Day scramble 20 years ago. As far as he knows, the cacophony of torn paper came to a stop, like the needle coming off a record, when he and his brother unwrapped Tecmo Super Bowl.
EA Sports Delights in Signing Away Pro Evolution Soccer's Three-Time…
Back in January, one of Lionel Messi's teammates on FC Barcelona let slip that the football superstar greatly enjoyed playing EA Sports' FIFA series
NFL Told EA Sports to Keep Late Hits Out of Blitz
When NFL Blitz was announced in October, I asked the game's producer, Dave Ross, what kind of hitting action the game would feature, given the league's increased sensitivity to violence and head injuries since the last version of the game was released in 2003. Ross said at the time they were still working through…
If Video Game Developers Could Redesign Football
People get hurt playing football. It may seem inevitable when you've got three 300-lb. pass rushers bearing down on a quarterback over and over again. But how could that reality be different? That's the question that came up during Practice, New York University's inaugural game design conference that was held this past …
EA Sports Resurrects NFL Blitz, the Ultimate Arcade Football Franchise
Midway's classic game of over-the-top seven-on-seven football returns with online multiplayer and HD graphics this January, when EA Sports releases NFL Blitz, a downloadable game for the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.
Locked out LeBron Finds Work in Madden
With the first two weeks of the NBA season canceled thanks to the lockout, some players have gone looking for alternative employment. Gordon Hayward of the Utah Jazz, for example, was in a Starcraft pro gaming tournament this past weekend
