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  • Madden NFL 13 Cover Candidates: AFC South
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    Posted March 4th, 2012 at 8:45 am 8 Comments »
    EA Sports continues their reveal of candidates for the upcoming 64 player tournament to capture the cover of Madden NFL 13. One division per day will be announced leading up to the start of voting in the round of dual team representatives on March 7th. The Texans present the strongest duo from the AFC South - though Arian Foster has to be considered the favorite. In what may be the worst player ever included in cover discussion the Jaguars get saddled with Blaine Gabbert as one rep. Thoug...
  • Madden NFL 13 Cover Candidates: NFC East
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    Posted March 2nd, 2012 at 2:30 pm 25 Comments »
    EA Sports continues their reveal of candidates for the upcoming 64 player tournament to capture the cover of Madden NFL 13. One division per day will be announced leading up to the start of voting in the round of dual team representatives on March 7th. Today's division is the NFC East which offers up favorites from both the Eagles and Giants who could see either of their reps go deep in the tournament. Who will emerge out of those pairings will be especially interesting. The notable omiss...
  • Madden NFL 13 Cover Candidates: AFC East
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    Posted March 1st, 2012 at 2:15 pm 25 Comments »
    EA Sports continues their reveal of candidates for the upcoming 64 player tournament to capture the cover of Madden NFL 13. One division per day will be announced leading up to the start of voting in the round of dual team representatives on March 7th. Today's division is the AFC East which offers up tournament favorites in the way of Darrelle Revis and Rob Gronkowski. The Bills get the weakest duo with Ryan Fitzpatrick who tanked after getting a big contract extension and Stevie Johnson ...
  • Madden NFL 13 Cover Candidates: NFC West
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    Posted February 29th, 2012 at 2:15 pm 11 Comments »
    EA Sports continues their reveal of candidates for the upcoming 64 player tournament to capture the cover of Madden NFL 13. One division per day will be announced leading up to the start of voting in the round of dual team representatives on March 7th. The NFC West is today's division and contains a couple tournament favorites with Marshawn Lynch, Patrick Willis, and Larry Fitzgerald the biggest contenders from the bunch though the latter two could fall to their teammates. Sadly for Rams ...
  • Madden NFL 13 Cover Candidates: AFC West
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    Posted February 28th, 2012 at 2:15 pm 36 Comments »
    EA Sports has begun to reveal the candidates for the upcoming 64 player tournament to capture the cover of Madden NFL 13. One division per day will be announced leading up to the start of voting in the round of dual team representatives on March 7th. The AFC West is the first division to roll out and contains a tournament favorite in Tim Tebow and two special teams players - who finished the season rated 98 and 99 respectively - from the Raiders. The Surprise here is probably Dwayne Bowe,...
  • Robert Griffin III Will Share Cover of NCAA Football 13 With Past Heisman Winner
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    Posted February 27th, 2012 at 9:00 am 19 Comments »
    ESPN Central Texas is reporting, as first noted by The Gaming Tailgate,  that Robert Griffin III will be on the cover of NCAA Football 13. Given that some sort of focus with NCAA 13 seems to be Heisman winners of the past it then makes sense that the latest Heisman would play a role in the marketing of the upcoming title. It's unclear though exactly where RG3 would fall as a potential cover athlete and given that the news seems based on involvement with a cover shoot that doesn't elimina...
  • Focus Put on Defense for Madden NFL 13
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    Posted February 21st, 2012 at 2:15 pm 110 Comments »
    In an interview with Game Informer the chief creative officer at EA, Richard Hilleman, exclaims that a focus is being put on defense with Madden NFL 13 while also going into some thoughts on the shift in development team leadership and philosophies. "They are doing big things this year," he said. "They're making big changes. Those are big changes that are going to break a lot of stuff, and they know that. What we're after is a better defense that's more fun to play." Statements like these ...
  • Recapping the Madden NFL 12 Player Trait Feature and Changes From the Season
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    Posted February 14th, 2012 at 1:30 pm 59 Comments »
    One of the more valuable gameplay-centric additions in Madden NFL 12 came with player "traits". They allowed for improved player differentiation on the field, another way to target the right players in Franchise mode to fit a particular play style, and additional items for fans to debate outside of just ratings. The feature added a new level of definition to players that had been desperately needed for a long time but there is room to expand on that going forward.  (more…)...