Archive for the ‘Madden’ Category
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Gamestop Madden Monday: Returning Missed FGs
This week's Gamestop Madden Monday focuses on the ability to return missed field goals and includes two new screenshots of Devin Hester in position to do so. One of these Madden NFL 09 innovations is the ability to return missed field goals. Over the past couple of years, we've seen in the real-world NFL how a seemingly insignificant field-goal attempt can be turned into a momentum-changing, or even game-deciding, touchdown return. It will be a nice change to force people...
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Who will be the NBA Live 09 cover athlete?
It's that time of the year when the cover athletes for the upcoming NBA games become a topic of discussion. Given that the NBA Live cover is expected to be announced first and that 2K has shown the tendency to stick with one guy for multiple years (considering the season Chris Paul had that seems likely to continue) this will be a breakdown of the most likely candidates for the NBA Live 09 cover. Over the past three years the cover of NBA Live has been announced between late April and mid...
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Madden 09 debut video
Gametrailers has posted the first truly representative footage from Madden 09. Unlike the usual first trailers for games this one focuses on displaying gameplay and some of the new elements that surround it. Just recently it was IGN that put out a short clip showing off Madden 09 which came from an especially early build of the game (didn't include commentators and or even show off the play call screen or any presentation enhancements). About the only thing to get out of it was the snow visual...
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Madden 09 online update
In his latest forum posting, Madden 09 lead producer Phil Frazier notes a couple of things relating to the game including a statement that they are likely going to be able to get variable weather into online unranked games. In the course of one week it has gone from no online weather, to talking about the possibility of it, to it being a 95% certainty that it'll be included. Hopefully that will include online league games which are in essence unranked games as well and would add to the experie...
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Madden 09 gameplay footage and online play details
Well I was wrong about nothing significant coming out in an effort to avoid getting swallowed up by GTA IV on its release day. IGN has the full details on Madden 09's online leagues via an interview with two of the Madden developers which you can read in its entirety here. It focuses on the league aspect but later in the interview shifts to discussion on the Virtual Training Center. They've also posted up the first gameplay footage. You can watch that video by clicking here (make sure to watch...
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Gamestop Madden Monday: Options on Demand
Continuing with their "Madden Mondays" blog feature for the third week in a row Gamestop has posted details on the picture-in-picture play call window. You can read the posting in full here. To keep the game moving, the Options OnDemand PIP Play-call Window will streamline the flow of important information, like player and team stats, instant replay and even Madden Tips, which suggests a feature you haven't used yet with a video tip explaining it. Think of it as the animated ...
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Madden Draft Analysis
With the 2008 NFL Draft now complete it is time to look at which teams improved their rosters the most for Madden 09. Continue on to view my breakdown of each team's potential instant impact picks for this year. Be sure to vote in the poll at the end for which team had the best Madden Draft. (more…)...
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Live Blog
I'll be around throughout the first round updating on a regular basis. Keep refreshing for new things that have been added such as draft thoughts and rookie Madden screenshots coming out of EA's Madden 09 draft page (which will include "trading cards" with the rookies). I'll also try to respond questions posed in the comments just keep in mind I can only give my thoughts on items surrounding Madden and NCAA that are public knowledge and not hands-on specific until 5/2. 1145: If the draft go...
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