Last year, in a visit to Electronic Arts Tiburon, the NCAA Football development staff told me about plans to introduce more lifelike broadcast presentation to the game. It was going to be a tiered thing all along.
Tomorrow I’m hitting the road for a cross-country move, the sixth time I’ve driven the width of the nation since 2001. As I was boxing up my video games it occurred to me that some of them will have made five of those journeys by the time I reach North…
Even if a lockout doesn’t happen – even if the dispute between owners and players is solved tomorrow – the labour unrest in the National Football League will have ramifications reaching well into the future – for video games.