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College Football Game of the Week: ASU @ Oregon
From here on through the bowl season I'll be featuring one game a week using NCAA Football 08. The game will be played through and include the summary and statistics along with game highlights via clips and screenshots through EA Sports World. This week the #4 Arizona State Sun Devils (8-0) head to Autzen Stadium to face the #5 Oregon Ducks (7-1). Oregon is favored by 7 1/2 points. The winner will position themselves at the top of the Pac-10 and keep their National Championship hopes aliv...
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Team and top player ratings in College Hoops 2K8
Gametap has released the top 25 rated teams and a list at each position of the top rated players from College Hoops 2K8. Kansas: 88 North Carolina: 88 Tennessee: 87 UCLA: 87 Arkansas: 86 Georgetown: 86 Memphis: 86 Michigan State: 86 Kentucky: 85 Louisville: 85 Marquette: 85 Georgia: 84 Providence: 84 Arizona: 83 Auburn: 83 Clemson: 83 Connecticut: 83 Duke: 83 Indiana: 83 Mississippi State: 83 Pittsburgh: 83 Stanford: 83 Syracuse: 83 Texas: 83 Texas A&M: 83 C...
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NCAA Football 08 gets a patch of its own
While the upcoming patch for Madden has been looming for a while, there wasn't much expectation that NCAA Football 08 would receive one as well. Despite that one was released just recently (under the radar) for the PS3 and seems likely to be out for the 360 in the near future. I am hoping to get word on the status of the 360 patch soon. **See update below the summary for the latest news.** Unfortunately some of the major issues such as the depth chart button lag were not dealt with, howev...
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FIFA 08 MLS Interactive Playoffs
Fans of FIFA 08 and the MLS will be interested that EA is currently running a competition using the interactive leagues feature in the game to support your favorite MLS playoff squads. Play as your MLS team in the current match-ups and accumulate points for them by winning to see which team has the ultimate fans. Check out the link in the EA forums here for more details and discussion....
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Suggestions for EA GameShow
Here is a list of suggestions/ideas I have come up with for GameShow. Most of these were just noted as I was playing and I feel could make GS even better. If you have any of your own feel free to leave them in the comments and I can have those passed along as well. -Friends lists so you can find them when they're on and invite them into rooms or easily pull up their stats. -It would be nice to have chat ability. Even if it is just for in between sessions. -Have updated leaderboards/st...
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March Madness 08 and College Hoops 2K8 updates
Gamespot has a hands-on of College Hoops 2K8 Legacy Mode which you can check out here. Also a few new features for have been revealed. New to this year’s edition of the 2K Sports’ College Hoops series is PlayVision, allowing gamers to execute every play on the court to perfection. PlayVision draws out each play step-by-step, detailing where on the court to pass, move, and watch for a screen. Each step of the play is illustrated with a diffe...
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EA clarifies on Madden 08 franchise fix in upcoming patch
As I suspected the patch for Madden 08 will include a fix to the franchise mode that has been causing people to prematurely end their franchises. Unfortunately this information was apparently cut off from the previous blog posting by EA that detailed what the patch was fixing. How they managed to miss that and take four days to clarify I don't know, but now everyone can calm down. In addition to everything mentioned earlier the patch will will address: Franchise - Fixed bug where the FA ...
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Running up the score
Over the past couple weeks the Patriots have taken heat from some of the media and many fans for what is being perceived as running up the score. It got me to thinking about how it is viewed when playing head-to-head video games. In many online communities running up the score is viewed as being cheap and unsportsmanlike. However there are many people out there who will keep playing and trying to score even with an insurmountable lead. When it comes to the Patriots, I don't have a problem...
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