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The Xbox One Gives The First Look At The Future Of Sports Video Games
EA Sports had an outsized presence at the Xbox One’s debut today, peeling the tape off something called the Ignite Engine and teasing a “very special relationship” with the console. But it offered few specifics of that beyond some exclusive DLC for the FIFA franchise.
Keep The Fans Happy — Or Break Their Hearts — As An NFL Owner In Madden 25
If they can live with themselves, NFL fans will be able to do some truly sick and depraved things this year with the new Madden video game. Like charge fans $30 for a beer. Like buy out the Green Bay Packers. Like drive that franchise down to Mexico in the middle of the night, and abandon it there.
Madden Again Seeks To Put Up More Of A Defense
Around this time each year, Madden bombards us with the annual list of improvements they say they’ve made to the defence. And when the game gets arrives, I’m still usually playing it as I have for years: by calling a play and letting the CPU deal with it. But one new move does look useful for a tool like me.
It Seems Easy, But Tiger’s Greatest Feat Is Damn Hard In A Video Game
In no rec league could I ever throw a no-hitter. Alone on a basketball court I’d need half an hour to score 69 points — and a trampoline to dunk. But I can do all of those things in my living room. Video games give us the conceit of doing the impossible, but only now has one demonstrated how hard that really is.
Female Footballers Still Sidelined In FIFA 14
Women won’t make an appearance in FIFA 14, despite an insistent campaign of petitions to include them and a summit, last year, that left one organiser with the feeling that it was just a matter of time before women would be included in the world’s most popular video game for the world’s most popular sport.
Familiar Names Get Paid In MLB 2K13′s Perfect Game Contest
A contestant accused of cheating in last year’s scandal-plagued MLB 2K Million Dollar Challenge pocketed $US25,000 in this year’s contest, staged under a new format — and with the exploits patched out. William Haff, of Owatonna, Minnesota, is not a finalist for a $US250,000 grand prize in this year’s contest, but he still did better than in 2012, when he won an all-expenses-paid trip to New York to compete for a winner-take-all million-dollar prize. (He was eliminated before the final round).
Minnesota Vikings Cut JRPG Fan
Chris Kluwe, the outspoken NFL punter, World of Warcraft and JRPG fan we’ve featured here frequently over the past season, was let go from his team, the Minnesota Vikings, today. Kluwe would frequently refer to his team’s upcoming game in the language of an MMO. His next objective, so to speak, is to find a new guild.
Producer Of Michael Vick’s Video Game Won’t Give Out His Real Name
In one of the more unusual interviews I’ve seen for a new, licensed sports game, the producer of Mike Vick: GameTime, on iOS, asked that his real name not be used. Might being associated with Vick, the NFL quarterback who did federal time for running a dogfighting operation, have something to do with that?
