Seventeen more fighters at the welterweight and lightweight divisions complete the EA Sports MMA roster, bringing to 60 the total number of combatants in the game.
Denmark bans the advertisement of energy drinks, I guess because they provide gratuitous amounts of energy or something. What’s that got to do with video games? Well, EA Sports MMA is shot through with energy drink ads.
Recently, the CEO of MMA promotion Strikeforce mentioned he’d visited Cowboys Stadium. As Strikeforce is a licensing partner of the upcoming EA Sports MMA, some took that to mean the site might show up in the game. They’re right.
Movin’ right along – EA Sports MMA is revealing its roster piecemeal. This week we’re shown 22 fighters eligible at the game’s middleweight class, eight of which were also revealed as light heavyweights last week.
EA Sports MMA is revealing its roster of fighters week by week, beginning with the heavyweights last week. This week, a 17-fighter light heavyweight roster was unveiled.
Madden launch week is probably not the best time to drop pre-release hype for your sports game, unless you’re EA Sports MMA. Those guys will take on anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Earlier today EA Sports revealed plans for Fight Night Champion next year, but let’s not forget the publisher has a combat sports title coming out this year – EA Sports MMA, whose career mode is showcased in 17 new screens.
Two retailers’ listings now peg FIFA 11 for an earlier North American release date – September 28 – which would seem to resolve a packed October schedule for EA Sports that must now accommodate EA Sports MMA.
Conventional wisdom holds that EA Sports saw UFC Undisputed’s success, said wait a minute, we’re the Fight Night guys, and started hustling out a competitor. That’s crap, says Peter Moore, and EA Sports MMA’s floor demo backs him up.