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The Line Drive for February 5
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, deal alerts, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. ♦EA Sports is still thriving in 2017 despite a few high profile failures thanks to FIFA. ♦Monday is the last full day to get the Super Bowl Edition of Madden NFL 17 for $20. ♦Press Row Podcast latest episode focused on EA's booms and busts is now on Youtube. ♦Pre-orders of MLB The Show 17 are 20% off for Amazon Prime members...
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Madden Bowl winner represents latest black eye for EA Sports and eSports
EA Sports is hoping to build Madden into a popular eSport. In terms of viewership they've been gradually climbing despite some inherent challenges. However they've had their share of growing pains with Madden NFL 17 as the entertaining games haven't proven to be the story. The Madden Classic held in early December had its championship game determined in part by a QB freeze bug that resulted in a fumble that was returned for a touchdown. That specific bug was fixed 10 days later with a ...
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Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 to receive another update next week
The next patch for Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 is scheduled to arrive on Thursday, February 9 and will most prominently add a number of updated likenesses along with the introduction of MyClub to the free-to-play edition of the game. Previous updates to PES 2017 delivered PS4 Pro support, more updated likenesses, and enhanced the presence of partners Liverpool and Dortmund with their stadiums, anthems, and classic kits. Over 100 players will be visually enhanced through the update "spanning...
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Mutant Football League taking another run at a Kickstarter campaign
Back in 2013 a crowdfunding campaign for Mutant Football League achieved only 19% of its ambitious $750,000 goal. Development on the game never ceased however and now its back for another shot at getting support through Kickstarter. Mutant Football League is seeking $60,000 and is already almost a third of the way there in its first day. Generally Kickstarter projects need to make about a third of their goal within the first two days to be on pace for a successful campaign so this is a ve...
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Press Row Podcast: EA – Booms and Busts
Electronic Arts’ stock is trading at all-time high levels and in looking forward to fiscal year 2018 (April 2017-March 2018) the company revealed a number of interesting facts and plans related to their various sports franchises. There’s the good: FIFA 17 was the world’s biggest selling sports game in 2016 and the company continues to see its digital revenue driven largely by Ultimate Team and free-to-play mobile show no signs of slowing down. There’s the ba...
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FIFA 17 was the world’s best-selling game
Besides another NBA Live cancellation and other news on the upcoming fiscal year, Electronic Arts yesterday revealed that FIFA 17 outsold every other video game in 2016 worldwide. That's not necessarily a surprise but that the franchise continues to grow year-over-year may be one. The latest game in the series is up 8% compared to FIFA 16 over the same stretch of time. The biggest reason for that may be the new story mode "The Journey" that was introduced in FIFA 17. Over 10 mill...
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Early 2017 NBA Live console game cancelled, but EA planning release for next fall
The NBA Live franchise has now been delayed or cancelled four times over a seven year span. In releasing last quarter's fiscal report earlier today, EA Sports revealed the remaining release schedule for their calendar year that runs through the end of March. After being listed in Q4 (Jan-Mar) since NBA Live 17 was announced as being "delayed" last May the game has now been dropped from the calendar. It's not unusual to discover a game has been delayed or cancelled in this manner. In th...
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$20 digital Madden NFL 17 Super Bowl Edition with bonus MUT packs available for one week
For the third consecutive year EA Sports is offering a special digital version of Madden on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to coincide with the Super Bowl. For PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold members the Super Bowl Edition of Madden NFL 17 can be purchased for $19.80 and is only available until the morning of February 7. The Super Bowl Edition includes the standard game plus five All-Pro Packs for Ultimate Team. Those each feature three Gold or better cards and have a combined eq...
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