Archive for the ‘Football’ Category
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College Football Game of the Week: ASU @ Oregon
From here on through the bowl season I'll be featuring one game a week using NCAA Football 08. The game will be played through and include the summary and statistics along with game highlights via clips and screenshots through EA Sports World. This week the #4 Arizona State Sun Devils (8-0) head to Autzen Stadium to face the #5 Oregon Ducks (7-1). Oregon is favored by 7 1/2 points. The winner will position themselves at the top of the Pac-10 and keep their National Championship hopes aliv...
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NCAA Football 08 gets a patch of its own
While the upcoming patch for Madden has been looming for a while, there wasn't much expectation that NCAA Football 08 would receive one as well. Despite that one was released just recently (under the radar) for the PS3 and seems likely to be out for the 360 in the near future. I am hoping to get word on the status of the 360 patch soon. **See update below the summary for the latest news.** Unfortunately some of the major issues such as the depth chart button lag were not dealt with, howev...
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EA clarifies on Madden 08 franchise fix in upcoming patch
As I suspected the patch for Madden 08 will include a fix to the franchise mode that has been causing people to prematurely end their franchises. Unfortunately this information was apparently cut off from the previous blog posting by EA that detailed what the patch was fixing. How they managed to miss that and take four days to clarify I don't know, but now everyone can calm down. In addition to everything mentioned earlier the patch will will address: Franchise - Fixed bug where the FA ...
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Running up the score
Over the past couple weeks the Patriots have taken heat from some of the media and many fans for what is being perceived as running up the score. It got me to thinking about how it is viewed when playing head-to-head video games. In many online communities running up the score is viewed as being cheap and unsportsmanlike. However there are many people out there who will keep playing and trying to score even with an insurmountable lead. When it comes to the Patriots, I don't have a problem...
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Quick Sunday notes
There are a couple of things going on in the community that are worth mention. Before I get caught up in the NFL games and my addiction to GameShow I wanted to post a few items that are of interest. (1) EA is trying to get a feel of how many people use the vision cone in Madden. They are considering removing it from the game completely for 09 in order to free up the right analog stick for another use. I appreciated the attempt to appease the hardcore crowd but it was a flawed idea that...
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Madden 08 roster update #4 gets updated
EA has released a revised roster update #4 which originally came out on October 23rd, the details of which you can find here. It seems likely that the motivation to do so came from having a few players with the incorrect race, such as the newly added Koren Robinson. This gave them the opportunity to make a handful of other changes that occurred too late to get them in before, such as moving Ronnie Brown to the IR and replacing him with the recently signed Samkon Gado....
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Details on the Madden patch
As I previously posted, the second (and more significant) patch for Madden 08 is on the way. In a producer blog the details of what will be fixed with this patch were revealed. Fumble Fix - Reduced fumble chances in certain situations. This has been tested thoroughly and we feel that people will be happy with a more realistic (and more fun!) number of fumbles. This was priority number 1 for us. DB Reactions- changes to the way that DBs play man coverage. Defenders in man coverage won't...
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Complete details of Madden 08 roster update #4
The next roster update (#4) for the 360 and PS3 versions of Madden 08 came out on Wednesday October 24th. There are a bunch of changes to weapons and ratings along with transactions and moves to the IR. There are even explanations included for each change this time! Details on all roster updates released throughout the year can be found here. Continue on to view all of the details of the latest roster update. (more…)...
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