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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 »
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Show Your NFL Pride On Xbox Live
2:40AM Mike Fahey | If anyone was crazy enough to spend $US4 on a tiny virtual football jersey it’s those whacky NFL Football fans. More »
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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 »
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Federal Judge Rules Video Games Are Protected “Expressive Works”
11:00AM Owen Good | The news here isn’t that Jim Brown, a man who certainly knows his rights, is supporting college players suing Electronic Arts over the use of their likenesses. It’s how he lost his own claim against the Madden series publisher. 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 »
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So I Went To A Fight, And A Video Game Broke Out …
2:00AM Owen Good | When Oregon’s LeGarrette Blount falcon-punched Boise State’s Byron Hout to begin the college football season (and end his own career) it made me wonder: Why don’t we see that in NCAA 10? It’s in the game, right? More »
Culture
NFL Hitched To The Oregon Trail
12:40PM Owen Good | To salute the NFL’s opening night, Slate cooked up this video: The NFL Hits the Oregon Trail. Mike Vick goes hunting, Donté Stallworth crashes the wagon, and of course, everyone gets dysentery, the end. More »
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GameStop Robber Demands Madden By Name
12:40PM Owen Good | “Small, unmarked bills” is the clichéd demand of an armed robber. Not in Jacksonville, Fla. A holdup artist told a GameStop employee to fill his bag with games—Madden NFL 10, to be precise. More »
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