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The Line Drive for January 8
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, deal alerts, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. ♦Coming up on last week to vote in all the various categories of the Community Awards. ♦Still to come are the awards for Best New Feature and Sports Game of the Year. ♦Summarized all the biggest sports gaming stories of 2016 for Sporting News. ♦Discussed many of 2016's most important stories on the latest Press Row Podcast. â...
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Playoffs content opens up in Madden NFL 17 Ultimate Team
With the NFL Playoffs kicking off this weekend EA Sports has introduced Playoff-related content to Ultimate Team in Madden NFL 17. The Predictor went live earlier in the week while these new additions include the ability to earn special Team Leader cards and turn in extras for special cards featuring players appearing in the Playoffs. The Team Heroes for the month are gone and in their place are Playoff Team Leaders. Adding all 10 of a team's Playoff Players to their respective set will u...
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Madden NFL 17 roster update details heading into Wild Card Weekend
The roster update following the end of the regular season is now available to download in Madden NFL 17. After two weeks without updates this one obviously takes on more significance with greater ratings movement across the entirety of the league. The MVP-like push from Aaron Rodgers finishing with 6 straight wins from the Packers moved him up 2 more points to 96 Overall matching where he began the season. On the other end of things last year's MVP, Cam Newton, dropped another 3 points fi...
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End of Year Community Awards: Best New or Non-Yearly Sports Game of 2016
Only a few categories remain to be opened in the annual Pastapadre Community Awards and the latest to do so goes to the best of the sports games that either made their debut in 2016 or don't release on an annual schedule. Previous winners in the category include Rocket League, The Golf Club, and UFC Undisputed 3. Casey Powell Lacrosse 16 was a pleasant surprise, with accessible and fun gameplay, Career Mode playable as both 'Coach' and 'Player,' and a well-designed sharing system wi...
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Press Row Podcast: Biggest Stories of 2016
Every year it’s important to look back on developments within the sports gaming genre, not just as a reminder of what has happened, but as insight into the direction individual franchises are going and the trends within the industry that will impact them all. Bryan Wiedey and Rich Grisham discuss some of the most important stories of 2016 in the new year's first episode. Reference Link: The biggest sports video games stories of 2016 Check out the podcast through iTunes for iO...
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Madden NFL 17 has its commentary update heading into Wild Card Weekend
The 19th commentary update for Madden NFL 17 has gone out with the broadcast team of Brandon Gaudin and Charles Davis reflecting on the events taking place and storylines that have emerged as the Playoffs begin. Madden has been receiving these real-world commentary updates regularly throughout the year which apply to Play Now and Online games. The duo has also recorded additional audio for modes like Franchise and Ultimate Team. Another commentary update is out in Madden NFL 17. Here'...
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NFL Predictor opens in Madden Ultimate Team
The latest promotion in Madden NFL 17 Ultimate Team arrives in time for Playoffs. It involves completing new Solo Challenges that give out True or False tokens and then placing those into the new Sets that are related to the the four games that will take place on Wild Card Weekend. Two Solo Challenges are currently open and upon completion each awards an NFL Predictor 8-Pack with those badges then turned into the Sets. The predictions that can be made are not just based on the resul...
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The best NBA 2K17 ‘Start Today’ teams for different challenges with the new year
Many look at Christmas Day as the unofficial start to the NBA season. It's an excessively long 82 game season after all with a great number of them being perceived as largely, if not completely meaningless. That has especially been the case in the age of "super teams" with fans just waiting for the Playoffs when those few teams will inevitably go head-to-head. That however is something that can be played out differently in video games and the new 'Start Today' feature for MyLeague Mode in...
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