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Madden Gets A Card Game

1:00AM Luke Plunkett | EA Sports have announced that “Ultimate Team”, a downloadable game mode built around trading cards that was first introduced in last year’s FIFA, is now making its way to Madden 10. More »
Hands On

KFC Madden NFL Box Unboxing And Review

1:00PM Owen Good | On the heels of 2008’s Guitar Hero: World Tour KFC Fully Loaded Box Meal, this year the purveyor of alleged poultry allegedly from the Bluegrass State has teamed up with EA Sports for the KFC Madden NFL Box. More »
Culture

Football Fans β€” Here’s Collinsworth NFL 10

1:00PM Owen Good | Cris Collinsworth took over as the colour analyst for the Madden franchise last year. John Madden retired from broadcasting this year. As this video suggests, it’s only a matter of time before the ex-Bengals receiver takes over the title More »
News

Guitar Hero, Madden, Eliminate Play The Monetisation Game

5:30PM AJ Glasser | Kai Huang, Peter Moore and Neil Young forecast a grim future for physical media at the University of California at Berkeley’s PLAY Conference this past weekend. 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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EA, Dawg Apparently Settling $25,000 Madden Lawsuit

9:30AM Owen Good | By the end of this month, Cleveland supafan John “Big Dawg” Thompson should resolve his civil suit against Electronic Arts, alleging the unauthorised use of his likeness in the publisher’s Madden NFL series. More »
News

Now The Fans Are Suing EA For Appearing In Madden

1:40PM Owen Good | Following up on the latest litigation involving the Madden NFL franchise, GameSpot finds that a former North Carolina footballer, a licensing group for boxers, and one of the Cleveland Browns’ infamous “Dawg Pound” inhabitants want a piece of Electronic Arts. 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

Where Madden Plugs A Gap, Another Sees A Running Lane

2:00AM Owen Good | In building a football video game without a full NFL licence, Jeff Anderson discovered his toughest pitch wasn’t to investors, but the press. “They’d say, β€˜Don’t you understand? You’re not supposed to be making a football product. That’s EA’s job.’” More »