Originally published in 2007, we've just updated this feature - on why there's no such thing as the "Madden Curse" - to reflect some of the game's more contemporary "victims".

EA Sports have announced that "Ultimate Team", a downloadable game mode built around trading cards that was first introduced in last year's FIFA, is now making its way to Madden 10.

We mention a plastic football accessory for the Wii in our radio show this week, and a plastic Wii football accessory appears! Coincidence? Probably!

We all know how it works: Another year, another Madden. Like any game that has a yearly deadline, sometimes there might be a lack of polish. We've collected 10 videos of glitches from EA's newest outing (Beware: foul language).

Raven Software designer Manveer Heir has mounted a one-man Twitter Wolfenstein marketing campaign, offering to pay for your copy of the game if it manages to outsell Madden 10.

During this week's Kotaku Talk Radio we had on MTV's Russ Frushstick to talk about QuakeCon, cheating in Madden 10, playing easy and other spicy topics.

It may sound like the title of a bad goth poem, but razorblades and roses are just two elements in Wal-Mart's promotional blitz for Madden 10.

EA have quietly, perhaps even accidentally, revealed that their two biggest sporting franchises - Madden and FIFA - will be coming to the iPhone "soon."

The Seattle Seahawks' T.J. Houshmadzadeh, upset he's only rated the sixth-best receiver in his conference in the upcoming Madden 10, has vowed not to play the game no more.