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Free-to-Play Madden Alternative Inks Four More Celebs

1:40PM Owen Good | Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online fantasy sports/RPG hybrid Kotaku profiled two months ago, has signed agreements with four more coaches to use their likenesses as opposing AIs within the game. More »
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Free Dark Elves In Every Blood Bowl

3:40AM Mike Fahey | The PC adaptation of the Games Workshop board game that put the fantasy in fantasy football is getting a free dose of hot Dark Elf action next month. More »
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Madden Patch Adds Hideous Seahawks Uniforms

11:30AM Owen Good | 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 »
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Madden Arcade Coming To XBLA, PSN

1:40AM Mike Fahey | Today EA announces Madden NFL Arcade, a downloadable, pick-up-and-play, 5-on-5 football game for those of us who get dizzy looking at all of those X’s and O’s. More »
Culture

Compliment: Football Player’s Performance Is Beyond Video Games

8:00AM Stephen Totilo | There are many things in this world—movies with lots of explosions, for example—that people will say are “just like a video game”. Today we have an example of something so amazing it is beyond video games. More »
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Show Your NFL Pride On Xbox Live

2:40AM Mike Fahey | If anyone was crazy enough to spend $US4 on a tiny virtual football jersey it’s those whacky NFL Football fans. More »
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The Next Modern Warfare Trailer Will Be Televised

5:40AM Mike Fahey | Activision is kicking off a multi-million dollar advertising campaign for Modern Warfare 2 with a new trailer, airing during this week’s instalment of NBC’s Sunday Night Football. More »
Hands On

Madden iPhone Micro-Review: The Biggest Small-Time Football

7:20AM Owen Good | 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 long-time fans should expect? Or is it just a big-name brand’s toehold on a new platform? More »
Culture

Will The Madden Curse Strike Fitzgerald? You Bet! (Literally)

2:00AM Owen Good | 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 »
Features

So I Went To A Fight, And A Video Game Broke Out …

2:00AM Owen Good | 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? More »