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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.

September 2, 2011
News

EA Sports Seeks Ex-Football Players For Games Development Fellowship

EA Sports, in collaboration with the NCAA, will later this year begin offering paid fellowships to former college football players seeking experience in a games development or sports entertainment career. The players will work in the EA Tiburon studio, where the NCAA Football and Madden series are developed.

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.

August 2, 2011
PlayStation

What You Get With EA Sports’ New Premium Subscription

What is EA Sports’ Season Ticket? It’s a $US25 VIP pass, good for a year, getting you past the velvet rope to your favourite sports game on a weekend when everyone else is still playing last year’s edition. It offers a 20 per cent discount on paid downloadable content.

PlayStation

EA Sports Subscription Gets Diehard Fans In The Game Early

EA Sports will offer an annual subscription for hardcore sports gamers, which includes a three-day, pre-release full-play preview of five of the label’s most popular titles, and a 20 per cent discount on their paid downloadable content catalogue. EA Sports’ “Season Ticket” begins Aug. 27 with Madden NFL 12, and it will cost $US25.

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 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.

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