With the start of another NFL season comes another entry to EA Sports’ long-running Madden football series.  Over the last few years EA Sports has added different nuances to the gameplay in order to enhance the experience and while nothing vital was truly “added” to the core gameplay, the latest entry is also one of its more polished.

Madden has been the best-selling football game this entire generation for a number of reasons.  The most obvious of which is ..read more

Though nobody expected a Cleveland Brown to win EA’s Madden NFL 12 Cover Tournament, the Cleveland Browns fanbase pulled through for running back Peyton Hillis to earn the cover of Madden NFL 12 with a huge 66% of the vote. With over one million votes being made between Philadelphia QB Michael Vick and Cleveland RB Peyton Hillis, it’s surprising that Peyton won with over 700,000 votes, which tops his previous highest total of over 500,000 votes that it ..read more

While the players and owners do as much as possible to make sure that we will have a terrible NFL season ahead of us, EA is keeping our fantasy football hopes alive with the Madden 12 Cover Vote that pits 32 potential cover athletes against each other in a March Madness-style tournament to determine who will be on the cover this year. We are now in the semifinals with four remaining athletes that include some expected players and ..read more

With the rapid growth in popularity with mixed martial arts in 2008, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) sought a video game publisher to help capitalize on the trend.  With an established track record, UFC first went to EA Sports–who quickly denied the top MMA circuit and even went as far as saying “MMA is disgusting and is not a sport.”  Rejected, the UFC turned to THQ and ended up gaining a lot of success and critical acclaim with their multiplatform ..read more

The NBA season is underway, and whether you’re a fan of the world champion Los Angeles Lakers or you’re a loyal Warriors fan wondering when it’ll finally be time to believe again.  That time has become because NBA Jam is back.

If you’ve never heard of the NBA Jam series, you must be really young.  Because of its outrageous gameplay, NBA Jam was once the pinnacle of basketball games.  Dunks from the free throw line, the lack of referees, ..read more

It’s a shame the National Hockey League isn’t that big in the United States.  Every year since the 08 edition, the NHL series of hockey games has steadily improved year after year, consistently giving players the best hockey simulation possible.  This year, EA Sports has added Madden’s “Ultimate Team” mode to NHL 11′s already impressive repertoire, and it looks like another winner.

NHL 11 is a hockey simulation that benefits from the fact that it is the only one ..read more

Madden and the Wii; it’s a match made in heaven. The Wii is the best-selling console in the United States, and Madden has always been the best selling sports game for quite a few years now.  Year after year, EA Sports has done what they can to make the Wii version of the game stand out, and this year’s entry stands out once again, with emphasis being put upon what’s arguably the most important mode in the entire series.

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With the NFL Hall of Fame ceremonies beginning to fade out, the pre-season has just begun and with that comes another year of Madden football.  The release of Madden is always one of the most anticipated releases every summer, and it’s not a surprise considering the sport’s growing popularity.  While the league may be entering a lot of uncertainty going into next season—we do know one thing for certain and that’s whether or not this year’s version of the game ..read more

With NFL teams getting ready for training camp, it’s time for armchair quarterbacks to get ready for what’s become the most anticipated sports release every summer—Madden.  And with the playable demo being released on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace just this week, it’s even more reason to get excited.

As outlined in our impressions from E3, the new focus this year is in its GameFlow playcalling system.  The inclusion of this new system allows playcalling to take less time ..read more

The conferences aren’t completely changing, at least not due to the events of this summer, but at least you can change the virtual landscape of college football. NCAA Football 11 features several upgrades and changes that improve the visual, presentation, community, and the controls quite a bit. Despite a few kinks in the armor, NCAA Football 11 offers enough improvements that it is easily worth a purchase for football fans.

The biggest additions to NCAA Football 11 are Pro-Tak, Real Assignment ..read more

As the conferences are being shaken up to change the future of the NCAA, the virtual landscape remains steady as NCAA Football 11 nears its release. The team at Tiburon is putting in a lot of effort this year to fix a lot of the things that fans have been wanting for years, which should at least make this year’s game the one to watch. We got our hands on the new demo to see how much these ..read more

While the folks at EA have tried their hand at an arcade football game for a while now, but it has taken until now that they captured the Blitz style of simplicity. Madden NFL Arcade is a much more simple game overall than recent Maddens have been and that makes for an arcadey experience that can really be a lot of fun in multiplayer.

Madden NFL Arcade does trim down what you expect from the traditional NFL experience that football fans ..read more