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Whatever Happens, Johnny Football Is A Video Game Legend

By all rights, Johnny Manziel should have engraved his name on the Heisman Trophy yesterday. He quarterbacks one of college football’s most archetypal brands, the Texas A&M Aggies, and has had an outstanding season running the nation’s most demanding gantlet, the Southeastern Conference. On Saturday he and A&M deposed Alabama, the No. 1 team and defending national champion, on its home field, in TV’s game of the week. He was captured in two dazzling Heisman-pose photographs that will likely make their owner a ton of money. And then there’s that winning smile of a nickname, Johnny Football.


EA Sports Has Not Killed Named Rosters In Its College Football Video Game

“Roster Share”, a service in which NCAA Football 13 players trade edited rosters over EA Sports servers, has been down for a few days on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. This has given rise to conspiracy rumours that EA has spiked the feature, especially as it’s tied to a use-of-likeness lawsuit brought by former college players.


NCAA Football Must Use Crowd Psychology To Stand Apart In Sports Video Games

This year, NCAA Football included 24-track audio, pulled from an ESPN broadcast at one of the college football’s biggest stadiums, hosting one of its best rivalries. The “Go Blue” you hear at Michigan Stadium comes through loud and clear any time you play in Ann Arbor, as the Wolverines or a visitor, as it should. It should be easy to re-create one of the best crowds in the game.


Which One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other? NCAA 14 Must Supply An Answer

The development team didn’t need to read a dozen reviews, all saying the same thing, to know where NCAA Football stood. A single presentation, in a creative debriefing shortly after the game’s July release, said enough. Four screenshots were shown, from NCAA 10 in 2009 to NCAA 13 this year. Guess which one comes from which game, the presenter asked.


You Can’t Say That In A Video Game—Why, Someone Might Think You’ve Been Drinking

Even for an NBA 2K13 soundtrack curated by Jay-Z himself, the butchery of Puff Daddy’s “Victory,” was to be expected. That track contains four N-words, eight F-words and nine S-words, and this is a game played by 10-, 11- and 12-year-olds.


EA Sports Rolls Out Red Carpet For School Barred From NCAA 13 Club

The mistaken exclusion of South Alabama, a newcomer to college football’s top division this year, from NCAA Football 13 left EA Sports wiping a crateful of egg from its face back in June. Both USA and the embarrassed label would have to stew for another year, until NCAA 14, before the problem could be solved.


New Getups Now Available For Free In NCAA 13

NCAA Football 13‘s “Uniform Store”, meant to deliver the latest variants on the college football getups you see on the TV, finally has some threads to offer. Twenty-three uniforms are now available through the feature — free — although it is not yet accessible through the PlayStation 3.


If Your Game Isn’t Getting Patched, Consider It A Warning

THQ found the time to re-rate fighters for UFC Undisputed 3 a third time but still hasn’t delivered a patch for the game, now six months after its release, despite THQ’s promises it would continue to support the title even after the news it sold the licence to EA Sports.


Backhanded Box Quotes: Pro Hater Edition

Welcome back to “Backhanded Box Quotes”, a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic, Amazon and elsewhere. Good luck getting a job with Irrational Games if your game shows up here.


How To Punish Penn State — From The Comfort Of Your Living Room

When the NCAA leveled crippling sanctions against Penn State a week ago, harshly penalising the football power for its lack of institutional control in a 13-year sexual abuse scandal, it wasn’t long before I was asked if the NCAA Football series, this year or in the future, would incorporate any of these bans and restrictions.


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