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more about #madden Karlott: 1. Glad we pay $50 a year for Xbox Live so companies can still do this anyway. 2. Glad to see them taking Madden 08 PC away, since it's the last Madd... more » NoFunShogun: hmmmm..... good thing to know. I've actually been thinking about getting Madden 10, but was debating when (and if) I should get it. If I can expect ... more » Neko_Tech: So glad that Burnout Paradise wasn't mentioned. Since I've bought all of their DLC minus the time saver/Boost special and Party add on and I haven't p... more » Masonvrocks: If only EA would fix their damn online in BF1943...or get better support...reset your router my ass... more » perry570: MADDEN '09 for XBOX1.....?wtf!? since when have they made games for xbox1 for like the past 3 years... weird anyways im all for taking down '07 and... more » Altima NEO: EA is rather quick to kill online services for its games more » Mike Newlad: Gotta love that xbox live fee, it lets you play your games online... oh wait, no it doesn't. more » 1Mystic-G: And yet BF 1942/BF2/BF2142 are still kickin strong on PC. Let's be honest, sports games (aside certain ones) on PC are a waste of development cost an... more » playstationpwns: lol Tiger Woods 07 PC. I bet the server list has been a whole 0 strong for the past 3 years. more » Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.: Servers cost buttloads of money. EA is in the red and has to cut costs. Perfectly logical that if they are gonna host servers, they would only want to... more » Arelan: So EA could technically get to the point where after every year, they shut down the servers, forcing you to buy the new iteration if you want to play ... more » ajacy: when Madden 11 comes out there will be an even LARGER ad that says BUY MADDEN 11: IT HAS LESS ADS!! more » superberg: I suppose it's less surprising to see pop-up ads in sports than any other genre, what with sports programming being absolutely loaded with it. It... more » Ryan_Long: So where does all of this ad revenue go? Obviously not to making the game less than $59.99. What do we get for it? With broadcast TV, you can argue th... more » Serantos: It would be one thing for them to charge less for an ad-supported game. This is not the case, hell, they are even adding advertisements after a gajill... more » jimbojonez: Well, ads for Coca-Cola do *nothing* for realism. Anyone who watches football knows that it would be ads for beer, cars, and erectile dysfunction. more » Bouchart: When I want to play a sports game, I take out Cal Ripken Baseball, NCAA Football or Pro-Sport Hockey for my SNES. No ads in any of those. more » SeattleTed is proud to like Robert Zimmerman: Be sure to check your bank accounts if you paid with your debit card, or your mailbox if you paid via cash. I'm sure you'll find a credit equal to the... more » Culebra: Ewwww. Personally, I think it's sad that advertising permeates sporting events so completely that it's considered part of the experience. But hey, s... more » Maldron: If you're going to put advertisements in a game, then that should be reflected in a game's price. more » -
#madden
EA Shutters Online For Selected Games, Including Madden 09
Game company EA has announced that it will be shutting down online service for "some older EA titles". Included in the list is football game Madden NFL 09 (PS3 and Xbox 360), which was released in August 2008.
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#ads
Madden 10 Now Pops Up Ads with Annoying Frequency
Madden NFL 10's in-game advertising arched some eyebrows when it released, but the grousing quickly blew over. The complaints have returned, as some users are reporting even more frequent pop-up ads, sometimes at the rate of one-per-snap. More » -
#patch
Latest Madden Patch Pays Tribute to Slain QB
The second patch for EA Sports' Madden NFL 10 adds the tribute helmet sticker Tennessee is wearing for Steve McNair, murdered in the offseason by his deranged mistress. Philadelphia defensive coordinator Jim Johnson also gets the memorial treatment. More » -
#balls
Madden Arcade Has Three Balls, Ice Sculptures
As surmised, the additional linemen included in the Madden NFL Arcade rosters are part of another wacky powerup in the game. EA Sports put out a full list and gallery of the "gamechangers" for the downloadable title, due this week. More » -
#stickjockey
Maybe the Greatest of All Time, but not In Its Time
Of the major game-of-the-year awards given out each year, no sports title has ever taken top overall honors. And yet five years later, there is one still talked about in ways that year's winners are not. More » -
#madden
Here are the Madden NFL Arcade Rosters
Yesterday, Madden NFL Arcade announced its Thanksgiving Week launch. Today we get the full 10-man rosters for every team in the five-on-five shootout. More » -
#madden
Madden Arcade to Release Thanksgiving Week
IGN reports that Electronic Arts announced its five-on-five Madden NFL Arcade will release Thanksgiving week, a time of the year that already blends pigskin with parking one's self on the couch for extraordinarily long stretches in front of the tube. More » -
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#madden
Madden Gets A Card Game
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. More » -
#blorf
KFC Madden NFL Box Unboxing and Review
On the heels of 2008's Guitar Hero: World Tour KFC Fully Loaded Box Meal, this year the purveyor of alleged poultry allegedly from the Bluegrass State has teamed up with EA Sports for the KFC Madden NFL Box. More » -
#madden
Football Fans β Here's Collinsworth NFL 10
Cris Collinsworth took over as the color analyst for the Madden franchise last year. John Madden retired from broadcasting this year. As this video suggests, it's only a matter of time before the ex-Bengals receiver takes over the title More » -
#weekendevent
Guitar Hero, Madden, Eliminate Play The Monetization Game
Kai Huang, Peter Moore and Neil Young forecast a grim future for physical media at the University of California at Berkeley's PLAY Conference this past weekend. More » -
#whatnottowear
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 » -
#easports
EA, Dawg Apparently Settling $25,000 Madden Lawsuit
By the end of this month, Cleveland supafan John "Big Dawg" Thompson should resolve his civil suit against Electronic Arts, alleging the unauthorized use of his likeness in the publisher's Madden NFL series. More » -
#easports
Now the Fans Are Suing EA for Appearing in Madden
Following up on the latest litigation involving the Madden NFL franchise, GameSpot finds that a former North Carolina footballer, a licensing group for boxers, and one of the Cleveland Browns' infamous "Dawg Pound" inhabitants want a piece of Electronic Arts. More » -
#review
Madden iPhone Micro-Review: The Biggest Small-Time Football
EA Sports' Madden franchise didn't hit the iPhone until the NFL's first week, trailing Gameloft's NFL 2010 by a month. Does it deliver what longtime fans should expect? Or is it just a big-name brand's toehold on a new platform?
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#freegift
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 » -
#maddencurse
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 » -
#stickjockey
Where Madden Plugs a Gap, Another Sees a Running Lane
In building a football video game without a full NFL license, Jeff Anderson discovered his toughest pitch wasn't to investors, but the press. "They'd say, βDon't you understand? You're not supposed to be making a football product. That's EA's job.'" More » -
#stickjockey
So I Went to a Fight, and a Video Game Broke Out ...
When Oregon's LeGarrette Blount falcon-punched Boise State's Byron Hout to begin the college football season (and end his own career) it made me wonder: Why don't we see that in NCAA 10? It's in the game, right?
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