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Madden 09 IGN hands-on preview
IGN has posted up their hands-on report for Madden 09 and also added some new screenshots. Overall it recaps most of what is already known about the game without much in the way of first-hand opinion, which is what we'll be able to provide next week out of the community event. You can read the full preview here, while a new gameplay video which includes an instance of the Rewind/Backtrack feature and the first time hearing the new commentators has been added and can be watched here (make sure ...
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NCAA Football 09 official team ratings
EA Sports has released a spreadsheet that contains the finalized team ratings in NCAA Football 09. You can download that from here in excel form. It contains the offense, defense, and overall rating for each team. For those who haven't seen the top 25 rankings that can be found here. What are your thoughts on teams that might be overrated or underrated? Florida State may be the team that jumps out the most as blatantly overrated....
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First details on Madden 09 for the Wii
As with what we've seen from NCAA Football 09, this year's release on the Wii for Madden 09 will help to kickoff the All-Play brand of games on that console. The idea behind it is to make the games more inviting to inexperienced players who have felt the games have been intimidating and confusing. The entire line of All-Play will be designed from the ground-up for the Wii as opposed to receiving a port of the PS2 version with motion controls tacked on and mini-games added. Yesterday Peter M...
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Many of the Facebreaker characters profiled
A recent TeamXbox preview of Facebreaker included profiles of many of the characters that will be included in the game. There are still some that they weren't shown to them, however they are able to vaguely describe several that haven't been seen in any of the screenshots or videos yet. Personally I'm looking forward to the monkey, though I think overall I'm more interested in the potential of Photo Face than these characters. In total they were able to talk about 11 of them. You can read t...
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NCAA Football 09 comparison video
EA Sports has posted up a new video for NCAA Football 09 that spotlights some of the advancements the game has made this year compared to last. You'll see examples of what I could only describe after playing as the natural look and feel in the movement of players. That includes the movement during pre-snap and while catching kickoffs, running down the sidelines, convoy blocking with celebrations, bobbled catches, and post play continuation. It's a pretty extensive look at areas that haven't be...
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Upcoming football community event
As mentioned yesterday there are a couple of community events taking place in the near future. The first one covers the three football games as NCAA Football 09, NFL Head Coach 09, and Madden 09 will all be available for significant hands-on time. There will also be some presentations and producer interaction taking place. This will be held next Thursday and Friday (5/29-30) with travel days buffering. When it comes to the subject of embargoes this is how it will likely shape up. NCAA will ...
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Facebreaker preview and new screens
IGN has posted up a first look preview for Facebreaker to go along with some new screenshots which includes a previously never before seen British character. This is by far the most in-depth preview of the game and contains a lot of good information. You can read the full article here. The gameplay, at its roots, is actually no more complicated than a game of rock-paper-scissors. There are light and heavy attacks that can be launched either high or low and then there's the defense of parrying...
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EA extends offer deadline for Take Two
The news that was alluded to for today regarding the EA offer for Take Two is that the deadline has been extended yet again. It now is set to expire on June 16th. The actual offer has not changed and still sits at $25.74, the same value (2 billion) as it has been since it was initially revealed back in February. Unfortunately there is no indication of movement one way or the other and the uncertainty will continue for the time being. As of close on Friday over 6.2 million shares had been tende...
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