Archive for the ‘NCAA Football’ Category
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One NCAA Player Likeness Lawsuit Ends in EA’s Favor
While the well-publicized lawsuit against EA Sports, the NCAA, and the Collegiate Licensing Company steams towards a trial set to begin in March 2013 (see the details on that here) a ruling has come down that offers insight into the legalities and could even have a greater impact. EA has won a dismissal in a case brought originally in 2009 by former Rutgers QB Ryan Hart in New Jersey, reinforcing the idea that video games are artistic works rather than commercial speech - and therefore pr...
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NCAA Football 12 Patch Now Available
It took nearly two months for the patch to arrive and attempt to address several of the severe issues in NCAA Football 12 - but it is here now for both the PS3 and Xbox 360. Broken new features like Custom Playbooks, player tendencies changing in edited rosters, problems in Online Dynasty, and console freezes are just some of the highly publicized issues that were discovered. Essentially this patch is intended to address problems that shipped with NCAA 12 rather than improve the gameplay or ...
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The Latest on the NCAA Football 12 Patch
Ever since announcing the outline for the upcoming NCAA Football 12 patch at the beginning of August EA Sports has been quiet as to when it would arrive. Originally stated to be out by the end of the month it appears that is now unlikely to happen and it will be slipping into September. In the first update on the patch since August 2nd EA stated today that it has now cleared through internal testing and has been submitted to Microsoft and Sony. Generally the hardware certification process...
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NCAA Football 12 Tops July Sales Charts
There were several notable developments that came with the release of NPD's official sales numbers for July. Overall it was the weakest performance for video game sales since 2006 and NCAA Football 12 easily took first place. It was already known the game was seeing increased sales over the prior year - 17% for the first two weeks - and it ended up finishing 15% higher when comparing respective first month numbers. (more…)...
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Loss in NCAA Player Likeness Lawsuit Would Have Huge Financial Impact on EA
According to CNBC's Darren Rovell a loss in the player likeness lawsuit brought against Electronic Arts, the NCAA, and CLC that is currently making its way through the courts (trial scheduled to begin March 2013) could potentially cost the company $1 billion. That would amount to a full quarter of the company's yearly revenues. Check out the detailed breakdown of the lawsuit and all the latest developments in this recent article. If all athletes are included in the class, and EA loses...
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Upcoming NCAA Football 12 Patch Details
It took three weeks but EA Sports has finally responded to the issues in NCAA Football 12 by releasing details on the upcoming patch. Expected to be out by the end of August the patch will address the severe problems that have been documented such as the broken custom playbooks, player tendencies flipping in edited rosters, injuries not carrying over week-to-week in Online Dynasty, random freezes, and more. Overall the update's intention seems to be to fix all the problems rather than pro...
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NCAA Football 12 Prompts Outlets to Question Need for Buying Games Day One
NCAA 12 released to generally positive reviews - though the consensus via Metacritic is down a significant four points vs NCAA 11 - and I laid out several issues with the game in my review and the closer analysis on features. Despite that EA Sports has yet to address the problems which have become the story since release and left consumers largely out in the cold as they work on patch behind the scenes. (more…)...
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Electronic Arts Denied Request for Dismissal in Player Likeness Lawsuit
Less than three months ago Electronic Arts was dismissed from the high profile lawsuit brought against them as well as the NCAA and Collegiate Licensing Company. The suit alleges improper use of player likeness through various forms of merchandise and media including video games in which the parties in question conspired to avoid paying players for their rights. A new ruling however looks to have brought EA back into the fold as a defendant in the lawsuit which has former players Sam Keller ...
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