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Why Robin Makes Batman Better “Brett” is easy to spell. B-r-e-t-t. “Favre”, not so easily. But to review: F-a-v-r-e-. Not “Farve”. If you’re a football fan, you should know that. And if you’re EA, you damn well should know that — especially because he’s the coverboy! Reader Devon points out that Brett Favre’s name is mispelled in the collector’s edition menu in Madden 09. That’s a pic of it right up there. Well, at least EA didn’t put “Brett Favour”.
Thanks, Devon for the tip!
And you thought I had forgotten. That’s right ladies and gents – today is August 12th – and that means a new Madden 09 launch trailer. I hope you grabbed the chips and salsa because in this trailer we get a look at some of the gameplay you can expect if you head over to your local retailer and pick up a copy.
Madden 09 is out! And to commemorate the event, Sony Computer Entertainment America are offering a special US$US 199.99 Madden 09 PSP bundle. The 20th Anniversary pack includes a “Metallic Blue” PSP-2000, a copy of the PSP game, NFL: In Just One Play UMD, a Beats PSN voucher and a 1GB Memory Stick PRO Duo. This is the only time that the Metallic Blue PSP-2000 will be offered in North America.
Hit the jump for the full release.
Here’s the full version of the thirty second Madden 09 ads that’s been running on American TV for the past week. This full version will be screened on the Jumbotron at tonight’s Maddenpalooza.
Thanks, Rye!
When Madden 09 coverboy Brett Favre announced his retirement from retirement and was traded to the Jets in early August, EA was left in a pickle! See, because Madden 09 had Favre in a Packers uniform. But, as we posted earlier, football fans who desire 100 percent accuracy in their Madden box art will be able to download a Favre-in-Jets-uniform cover. See that right up there? That is your Jets Favre cover!
Thanks Rye for the tip!
No, not in THAT WAY. Pwn or Die (the Funny or Die network’s venture into gaming) talked to everybody’s favourite Cybergirl Gamer. She’s insistent that Madden 09 widows/girlfriends will be able to play the game with their significant others and have just as much fun. In fact, Jo’s gonna grab it, and she never thought she’d enjoy a sports title. But the training mode and the dual-difficulty levels for cooperative play sold her.
And for you pervs, there’s nothing provocative in this, unless you count the glimpses of the covers of Playboy in the background. Oh yeah, you know you’re looking. I call that the 7-Eleven Eyeball, the scanning “Where is that thing I need” look on your face while you check out the covers of the girlie magazines. Actually, I use that when I’m at the grocery store and looking at Glamour. And Cosmo. And Woman’s World. Dude, the cake on last month’s cover was unreal. Where was I anyway …
Jo Garcia Talks Madden 09 [Pwn or Die]
Hey, sports fans! We know you read Kotaku. Or, at least, some of you care about sports. Maybe even care about Madden. So you’ll find this of interest: with the Packers QB being traded to the Jets today, it leaves EA in a pickle. They’d put him on the cover of Madden 09 in a Packers uniform, convinced – like everybody else – that he’d stay retired. So with Favre now due to suit up (or at least hold a clipboard) for NY this season, what are EA going to do with the cover? The game’s not out yet, they can mock up a new, Jets-branded image, right? Nope. They’re just going to leave it, a testament to a time when Brett Favre was going to be remembered as a future Hall of Fame QB, and not the meddling star of a modern-day sports soap opera.
It’s that time of year again! Madden 09 comes out in a week and John Madden has some things to say about EA’s latest rendition of the game. He discusses how Madden’s recent improvements have impressed Fox Sports to the point that they wished to make the television broadcast further resemble the game! We really have come full circle.
I’m just glad to see that Mr. Madden still has something to do with the title. At least we both have something in common, we both don’t fly (well) in planes.
Will he? Won’t he? WILL HE? Who knows. The soap opera over the future of “retired” Packers QB Brett Favre is reaching farcical proportions. Example: this (100% serious!) report on ESPN entitled “Report: Favre sends text message to Packers GM Thompson” (“Favre sent a text message to Packers GM Ted Thompson on Saturday — and Thompson’s reply was that he is on vacation and the two men will have to talk later). Whatever. Regardless of the real media circus, however, EA were smart enough to include a little feature in Madden 09 where you could not only tempt the future Hall-of-Famer out of retirement, but tempt him to suit up for the team of your choosing.
Let’s find out! Das Gamer was in attendance at Madden 09′s launch party the other night, and seems about the only interesting thing that went down was a mass confession from some of the game’s previous cover stars, spilling on their more eccentric Madden betting habits. Daunte Culpepper, Madden 2002′s cover star while with the Vikings, “won and lost a few mortgage payments on a game of Madden”. Exorbitant, yeah, but some of the other guys were a little more creative. Marshall Faulk (Madden 03) had to let somebody else drive his Bentley for a month. And Ray Lewis (Madden 05) used to play Madden for on-demand push-ups, which he’d then hold in reserve, and cash in while he and his teammates were out at restaurants, etc. Ah, must be tough, these lifestyles of the athletic and mega-rich, eh?
Madden Cover Stars Reveal Their Madden Betting Habits, Deny Curse At EA Event [Das Gamers]
