News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming:

NBA 2K13 Starts to Tease its Next Cover Star

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6/20/12 6:30pm

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Two Dozen All-Time Greats Available in Madden 13, with More to be Unlocked

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6/15/12 6:30pm

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Check Out Blake Griffin's Best Dunks as If They Happened in the Original NBA Jam

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5/24/12 6:30pm

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Free-to-Play Football Title Loses Its NFL License

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5/16/12 6:30pm

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Like the Playoffs, the NHL Cover Vote Drags On

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5/11/12 6:30pm

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Nearly 1 Million Perfect Games Were Attempted for a Shot at $1 Million

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5/02/12 6:30pm

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A Baylor Bear, Fighting as a Spartan

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4/26/12 6:30pm

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Cam Newton Challenges His Madden Cover Rival, But He'll Play Anybody—Even You

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4/20/12 6:30pm

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Don't Send Your Ace in Pursuit of Perfection in MLB 2K12

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4/19/12 6:30pm

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The Spartans Will Fight in the (Correct) Shade in NCAA Football 13

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4/18/12 6:15pm

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USC's Song Girls Finally Immortalized in a Video Game

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4/04/12 6:30pm

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Do little jugs get your attention? No? Well, how about the Song Girls of USC, or the Texas Pom Squad. Or a guy from Michigan staring up the crotch of Paul Bunyan. Trophies and university-specific cheerleaders are part of the coat of polish the NCAA…

MLB 2K Winner May Be an 'Ugly Duckling,' but He's Still a Millionaire

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3/30/12 6:30pm

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• The New York Post profiled Wade McGilberry and Brian Kingrey, the two previous winners of the Million-Dollar Perfect Game challenge in the MLB 2K series. McGilberry and his wife, Katy, have an 8-month-old son now, named Braxton. The couple chose to start…

March Madness Hits Hockey as NHL 13's Cover Goes Up to a Vote, Too

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3/29/12 6:30pm

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• With every cover for every game coming out of EA Sports Tiburon being put up to a vote, now their siblings in EA Sports Canada are getting in on the act. NHL 13 will also choose its cover star through a fan-voted contest. Not only that, they're adopting…

No Surprises After One Round in Madden's Cover Contest

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3/28/12 6:30pm

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EA Sports Opens a Bar in Vegas, Baby

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3/23/12 6:30pm

No, it doesn't have a sports book. But the EA Sports Bar at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas will feature Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s, six high definition televisions, and an assortment of, duh, EA Sports titles for patrons to play.

Barry Sanders Advances in the NIT of Cover Contests

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3/22/12 6:30pm

News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming:
• If the Madden cover contest is like the NCAA Tournament, does that make the vote-off for NCAA Football 13 the NIT? Oh, yeah, that's going on, too .... In the vote-off, Desmond Howard has advanced to face Herschel Walker, and Doug Flutie advanced to face…