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Caught Flatfooted By Xbox 360, EA Sports Vows It Won’t Happen Again
11Few sports video games are truly timeless. Even the best — MVP Baseball 2005, NFL 2K5 — show their age and shortcomings immediately, and more than their contemporaries in other genres. It’s the special burden of sports titles, tasked with reflecting both the state of the art and the state of reality inside a one-year…
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Oh, By The Way, Don’t Count On A Curtain Call For Video Games’ MVP
Getting an Internet signal inside LA’s Orpheum theatre is always a crapshoot. For years, it’s been both a daydream and a nightmare that I’d be liveblogging Electronic Arts’ E3 keynote as Andrew Wilson or Peter Moore finished EA Sports’ segment and then, pretending to forget something, turned and said, “Oh, by the way.” Then the…
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PC FIFA Won’t Get EA Sports’ Next-Gen Engine
Sorry, Master Race. That superduper Ignite Engine that EA Sports is bringing to its next-generation games? Yeah, it’s not going to power any upcoming PC version of FIFA. That’s per FIFA community manager Rob Hodson, who had this to say on Twitter.
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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…