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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.


Whistleblower On MLB 2K Cheating Scandal At Last Finds Perfect Justice

Yesterday I mentioned that some familiar faces cashed $US25,000 cheques in MLB 2K13‘s Million Dollar Challenge, including a guy accused of cheating in last year’s contest. But I missed another important name: The man who blew the whistle on the scandal.


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.


So, Have You Voted On Madden’s Cover Enough Already?

Have you voted on Madden‘s cover enough already? Help Tecmo Super Bowl‘s de facto world championship pick its pun name for next year’s tournament. Remember when Chris Berman was funny? These are much better.


Uniform Policy: Why Video Game Golfers All Look The Same At The Sport’s Most Prestigious Club

There’s no formal dress code for Augusta National Golf Club as it appears in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, but all created golfers must wear the same thing when they play it this year. This is unintentional, but admittedly a goof-up, two of the game’s designers told me on Friday.


Jet Li Says Video Games Can Totally Be A Sport

Well, here’s an unexpected champion of the plight of the professional gamer: martial arts/acting legend Jet Li. Attending a PvP event for Age of Wushu, a martial arts MMO, Li said “If poker card games and chess both have the players sitting down and are considered sports, why not virtual gaming as well.”


Winners Always Quit And Quitters Always Win — If It’s In A Video Game

After he carded a seven, the dreaded snowman on a par five, a six and a double-bogey on a par three, I half expected to see Rory McIlroy slink off the green, feigning tooth pain. He’d come into this final round atop the leaderboard at 10-under par, and now saw all of that vaporized in the first four holes of a disastrous Sunday.


No, EA Sports Is Not Making This All-Girl Roller Derby Sports Video Game

There are so, so many sports in the world that it seems a pity so few are properly realised in video games. We get football, another country’s version of football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, and that’s about it, if you don’t count console mascots facing off every Olympics in a shameless cash-in.


For Men Who Play As Women, Tiger Woods Will Present A Difficult Choice

For two years now, golf fans have been able to create a female professional and play the men’s PGA Tour with her. The creation of an LPGA Tour mode in this year’s game is another step forward. It’s the tour’s first appearance ever in a console video game, and the first time gamers may play a career mode associated with a real-life women’s professional league.


The Most Hilarious Sports Game Glitches, Now In Motion

The constant progression of annual sport titles has another advantage besides the games getting more and more realistic every year. It creates moments where the players go nuts — suddenly, our ordinary game turns itself into Dragon Ball Z or Super Smash TV. We selected below a few of these from the last few years’ FIFA, NHL and NBA titles.


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