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Backbreaker Scores A Proper Trailer
505 Games and NaturalMotion's Backbreaker finally gets a proper trailer, complete with pulsing soundtrack and overdramatic voiceover. More »NCAA Football β Where My High School's Name is in the Game
At my high school - among the smallest in North Carolina - we aren't known as the "Rams" or the "Cardinals." We're "The Buckin' Elks." And Brad Nessler says that name - all of it - in NCAA Football 10. More »Rumor: EA Sports' New Title is a Wii Football Trainer
Earlier this month, EA Canada's community manager tweeted that the company would announce a new sports title in January. Rumor now has it the game is an (American) football-based trainer with NFL branding. More »Free-to-Play Football "RPG" Gets Update
Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online American football strategy game, counts a million games played since its public release two months ago and says it will put out an update early this week that enhances gameplay and playcalling. More »The 2010 Video Game Bowl β and Playoff β Spectacular
Do you want a college football playoff? Do you love the tradition of a New Year's Day packed with A-list bowls? You can have both, as shown by Stick Jockey's video game simulation of a 16-team tournament - and 27 bowls. More »Backbreaker Going For Broke
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 »Survey Points to Potential New Features in NCAA 11
An EA Sports survey asks respondents which feature, from a list of 13, would most likely drive their purchase of NCAA 11. Possibilities include an "athletics director" mode, and broadcast presentation similar to what was done in NCAA Basketball 10. More »Morale Booster Connects Troops with NFLers on Xbox Live
Members of the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers engaged U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq in a Guitar Hero battle, which would have been a heart-warming story if brickheaded quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hadn't called the game "Rock Band" on the teevee. More »Free-to-Play Madden Alternative Inks Four More Celebs
Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online fantasy sports/RPG hybrid Kotaku profiled two months ago, has signed agreements with four more coaches to use their likenesses as opposing AIs within the game. More »Free Dark Elves In Every Blood Bowl
The PC adaptation of the Games Workshop board game that put the fantasy in fantasy football is getting a free dose of hot Dark Elf action next month. More »Madden Patch Adds Hideous Seahawks Uniforms
An upcoming patch to EA Sports' Madden NFL 10 will deliver plenty of gameplay tweaks and, most noticeably, the Seattle Seahawks' vomit-colored crossing-guard outfits (pictured), which everyone has been dying to see. Or dying because of seeing them. More »Madden Arcade Coming To XBLA, PSN
Today EA announces Madden NFL Arcade, a downloadable, pick-up-and-play, 5-on-5 football game for those of us who get dizzy looking at all of those X's and O's. More »New Compliment: Football Player's Performance Is Beyond Video Games
There are many things in this world — movies with lots of explosions, for example — that people will say are "just like a video game." Today we have an example of something so amazing it is beyond video games. More »Show Your NFL Pride On Xbox Live
If anyone was crazy enough to spend $4 on a tiny virtual football jersey it's those whacky NFL Football fans. More »The Next Modern Warfare Trailer Will Be Televised
Activision is kicking off a multi-million dollar advertising campaign for Modern Warfare 2 with a new trailer, airing during this week's installment of NBC's Sunday Night Football. More »Madden iPhone Micro-Review: The Biggest Small-Time Football
Reebok Giving Away the Madden AFL Pack for PS3
Madden's AFL Legacy Pack became available for download this past week, and official league apparelista Reebok is giving away the PS3 version for entering their sweepstakes. Just drop in your name and email and the code's yours. More »Will the Madden Curse Strike Fitzgerald? You Bet! (Literally)
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 »So I Went to a Fight, and a Video Game Broke Out ...
NFL Hitched to the Oregon Trail
To salute the NFL's opening night, Slate cooked up this video: The NFL Hits the Oregon Trail. Mike Vick goes hunting, DontΓ© Stallworth crashes the wagon, and of course, everyone gets dysentery, the end. More »The Free Madden Winner is β Probably Not You
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 »