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What Exactly Are Simulations Simulating?
In a slightly different take on the old 'we take too much from film techniques' argument we're all familiar with, a post at the Brainy Gamer takes on television techniques in simulations. Madden et al. aren't simulating playing a sporting event, he says, but watching one on TV:Less has been written about the defining role television plays in the design and presentation of games, especially sports titles. Long-running franchises like the Links series of golf games have gone by the wayside, largely because their simulation of the sport relied more on playing the game than watching it played.More »
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Madden Celebrates 20 Years This August 12 With Special Collector's Edition
John Madden's jowls celebrate twenty years of video game cover art exposure this year with Madden NFL 09. The game will be shipping in North America on August 12 arriving with a nifty 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition when it does. The CE packs in both Madden NFL 09 and NFL Head Coach 09, as well as "exclusive classic Madden NFL gameplay, and an extensive library of exclusive bonus video content," according to EA.
The traditional twentieth anniversary gift is china, so we hope EA follows suit with a special porcelain case or a John Madden commemorative Hummel figurine. The full press release, with Peter Moore and Chris Erb quotes about how exciting this year will be, is after this.
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French Footy Team Give Wii The Boot
Euro 2008's coming up. And for France, it's serious business. Having come up short in the World Cup final in '06, Les Blues want to go one better and come home with some silverware. To this effect, coach Raymond Domenech is putting his foot down, outlawing anything that could cause unnecessary injuries to his players. Like the Wii. Seems the risk of injury while playing a round of Wii Boxing is far greater than that found in the rigorous 2-a-day football training sessions demanded of professional players, so the low-impact game console's the one to go.Les joueurs de l'équipe de France de foot privés de Wii [INV] [Image: Getty]
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New England Manager Bans Gaming
Newly-appointed manager of the England football team, the astute, snappily-dressed and very Italian Fabio Capello, has wasted little time in stamping his authority on the perennially underachieving national side. Gone are visits from friends and family before a game. Gone are mobile phones once the team's checked into a hotel for a match. And gone are videogames. Capello believes the England team's obsession with their consoles had contributed to a "PlayStation culture", which was distracting them from the job at hand. Sounds harsh, but then if I was being paid millions of dollars a year to play football and all I had to do was not play games a day or two before a match, I think I could manage.Capello bans England from playing games [MCV] [Image: Getty]
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NFL Tour Screenshot Blitz
Depending on where you live, NFL Tour is either in the store today or heading there tomorrow, and EA has decided to remind you that their game exists with a veritable cornucopia of screenshots of the arcade sports title previously known as NFL Street. It's kind of odd, really. I was a big fan of NFL Street despite the cheapness of the power moves, and was looking forward to the next game in the series. Change the name and alter the premise just a tad and suddenly I am so disinterested that the release completely sneaks up on me, despite having read this week's WIG. Still, I've always been a fan of arcade football, and I do have this GameStop gift card...*sigh* Back in a few.
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LSU Football Players Use Games to Prepare
Video games - like sports - aren't always fun and games, and Louisiana State University has joined a handful of Division I schools that are using a rather elaborate modified Xbox game to reinforce lessons learned on the field. The game (simulator?) is customized for each school and even quarterback, allowing different experiences for different players. More »
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Crecente Plays Football
NaturalMotion is currently working on a new next-gen football game called Backbreaker for next year. One of the features of the game will be the ability to assign your own colors, logos and names to your team's players. So, to show off the feature, the folks at NM threw together a little Kotaku team featuring our signature pink and green colors and our own Crecente as Quarterback. I don't know what's funnier, the pink uniforms or the thought of anyone on the Kotaku team (with the possible exception of Fahey and Luke) playing football.
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Will being one of the best-looking, best-animated football games on the market help Naturalmotion's Backbreaker triumph over the Madden juggernaut when it is released next-year? Highly doubtful, I know. The core of the football gaming crowd is NFL fans, and without an NFL license it probably won't drum up big sales no matter how awesome it looks in motion. Now if the Madden folks could just get their hands on this engine...hmmm.
Backbreaker's Generic Beauty
Will being one of the best-looking, best-animated football games on the market help Naturalmotion's Backbreaker triumph over the Madden juggernaut when it is released next-year? Highly doubtful, I know. The core of the football gaming crowd is NFL fans, and without an NFL license it probably won't drum up big sales no matter how awesome it looks in motion. Now if the Madden folks could just get their hands on this engine...hmmm. 
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Spiky Mammal Football Adventures
Football season is upon us, and with Tecmo Bowl already out for the Wii Virtual Console, there's only one NES pigskin game worthy of a commemorative rerelease. This morning sees NES Play Action Football (500 points) take the field. Sporting 10 real teams with real players, it is one of the most technologically advanced NES games out there, as well as being one of the few to use voice clips. For those of you who would rather be a ball than play with one, spin up Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the Genesis (800 points) and relive Sonic's first meeting with Knuckles the
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Get The Black College Football Experience With Black College Football Experience
Video game football is about to get yet another contender, this time with a decidedly specific bent as tongue twisting developer Nerjyzed Entertainment has announced Black College Football Experience or BCFx if the former grows to tiresome. The Unreal Engine 3 powered college football game brings together three historically black college and university conferences, including some 40 teams for "an incredibly fun football game for the whole family to play."
So what is the Black College Football Experience? As a lily white dude whose closest hands-on experience with such a thing was flipping past a FAMU game once, I'll have to wait for the PC release to find out. Based on the press release, it's apparently not only football, but halftime shows, too, as you'll "step into the boots of a drum major" for an interactive battle of the bands. Hey! I like rhythm games, too!
Far more details are available at the Nerjyzed site, but a handy press release follows.
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NaturalMotion Tackles Football With Backbreaker
"Backbreaker is the first football game with truly interactive tackles. By utilizing our motion synthesis engine, euphoria, players will never make the same tackle twice, giving them an intensely unique experience every time they play the game," said NaturalMotion CEO Torsten Reil. "Backbreaker puts players in the middle of the gridiron by providing a pure, realistic football experience only possible on next-generation consoles."If the game ends up anything like that video, NaturalMotion could give EA a run for its money in 2008. Wow. Just wow. More »
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Frankenreview, Mario Strikers Charged (Wii)
Some people call it soccer, others call it football, and most Americans just call it boring. But as the world's national pastime, kicking a ball around into a net is pretty ultimate. Combined with Nintendo's most famous characters in history, you get Mario Strikers Charged.
But is the game any good? Hit the jump for our Frankenreview: every bit of every review in the entire Universe thrown out, so you can read less.
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Testosterone Stirring Madden 08 Screens
Every year I buy Madden twice. Normally I am not a fan of football whatsoever, but there are two times of the year where the testosterone starts to stir. Madden launch day, which inevitably finds me waiting in line with a bunch of people I have nothing in common talking in a tongue almost completely foreign to me, and then around Super bowl time, when I find myself rebuying the game after having handed it off to a friend days after the initial purchase. As soon as it comes, it goes again, like catching a light sneeze. The fact that I just vaguely referenced a Tori Amos song is testament to both my lack of interest in the sport as well as the sheer primal power of football. Looking at these new Xbox 360 screens I am starting to feel it all over again.
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Which Football Game is the Best?
In a painstaking review process, one reviewer weighs the merits of the two big football games of the moment: NCAA Football 08 and All-Pro Football 2K8. Breaking down graphics, offensive plays, defense controls, graphics, modes of play, freshness, extras, ouxtras and realism, there is one inarguable conclusion—a verdict undeniable in its truth. More »
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2K Woos Football Fans With Hip-Hop
What do you do when you are marketing a football video game but just about every aspect of the sport that makes it popular is owned by another gaming company? You call in the hip-hop luminaries. In a play I believe they took directly from Sun Tzu's The Art of War, 2K Sports, being unable to associate All-Pro Football 2K8 with anything resembling organized football have launched their "Football Resurrected " campaign in preparation for the game's launch on July 17th. More »
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Mario Strikers Gets Father and Son Promotion
Ian Wright and son, Shaun Wright-Phillips have signed on to promote Mario Strikers Charged Football in the UK. Both men are well-known in England for their footy talents and will promoting the game in different ways. Shaun will be featured in a television commercial for the game where he will show off the online attributes of the upcoming Wii game. His dad, Ian, will be making an appearance at GAME on Oxford street on the European launch date (May 25th) to play against people in store and sign autographs. More »
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