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News

EA Has A First Amendment Right To Depict Real College Football Players, Judge Rules

Electronic Arts on Friday won the dismissal of one lawsuit against it regarding its use of identifying characteristics of real college football players in its NCAA Football series. A federal judge said EA’s right to free expression under the First Amendment supersedes a former quarterback’s right to control the use of his likeness.

August 4, 2011
News

EA’s Disaster Plans Don’t Include Billion-Dollar Lawsuits Or Giant Meteors

A cocktail-napkin calculation about what’s at stake in former NCAA players’ lawsuit against EA Sports arrived at a potential cash-and-prizes value of $US1 billion. But as apocalyptic as that total sounds, Electronic Arts doesn’t sound too worried.

July 20, 2011
PlayStation

NCAA Football 12: The Kotaku Review

A century’s worth of traditions spread over 100 teams makes college football one of the top subjects when sports fans start gumming How It Really Oughta Be: Who gets into what bowl, what rivalry should be rescheduled, what schools should be in which conference if everyone wasn’t so fixated on starting their own TV network.

July 19, 2011
News

EA Sports Shows Everyone How You Lobby A Texas Governor

When it comes to negotiations , EA Sports doesn’t mess around. They they know what matters most, and in Texas, that means football.

July 17, 2011
In Real Life

More A Trip Down Memory Lane Than A Road To Glory

Two weeks ago the offers started pouring in. Duke. Vanderbilt. Wake Forest. Places well beyond what my parents could ever hope for me, much less pay for. They aren’t real offers, as I’m not really a football player. That’s OK, I’m not a real college student either. mum and Dad stopped worrying about how to pay my tuition, or if they would even get to, about 20 years ago.

July 16, 2011
Xbox

NCAA Football Fans, Your Real Rosters Have Arrived (On Xbox 360)

There’s always a race to publish the first complete, accurately named roster for NCAA Football 12, and this year it was available on the day of release. However, that doesn’t usually address depth chart placement, equipment details, or for some players, position changes and attribute re-ratings.

July 14, 2011
PlayStation

Named Rosters Already Available For NCAA Football 12

At more than 6000 names, all of which must be manually entered, custom rosters for NCAA Football is annually one of the biggest community projects in sports gaming. Accurately named files were available yesterday – the day of release – for both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions.

July 10, 2011
In Real Life

NCAA Football 12′s Ultimate Conference Call

In NCAA Football 12 players have an extraordinary amount of control over the college football landscape. Many diehards and purists have pursed their lips and grumbled over a wave conference realignments that forsake traditions and regional sensibilities for television contracts. NCAA 12 is their chance to put things right in the world. Their world.

July 3, 2011
In Real Life

Be True To Your School And Make A Video Game Better

NCAA Football 12 isn’t out for another 10 days, but there’s something you can do in the meantime—with the new version of the game, even—that will add to your experience, and others’ too, when it arrives.

June 5, 2011
In Real Life

It’s In The Game, Unless It’s Outside The Lines

Without fail, every time I bring up this job with folks outside the business, the topical jokes start rolling. Whatever the latest controversy or embarrassment is in sports, people ask if that’s going to be simulated in the next edition of Madden, Tiger Woods or NBA 2K.

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