Microsoft will soon begin offering ESPN programming through the Xbox 360's Live Marketplace. This will include full college basketball and football games within 48 hours of their completion as well as original programming such as Madden Nation and The Contender. Full games: $3 SD, $4.50 HD TV shows: $2 SD, $3 HD While it never hurts to be given more options, I just don't see this being very successful. People watch games live for a reason. Who would be willing to pay that much to catch ...

Fans of FIFA 08 and the MLS will be interested that EA is currently running a competition using the interactive leagues feature in the game to support your favorite MLS playoff squads. Play as your MLS team in the current match-ups and accumulate points for them by winning to see which team has the ultimate fans. Check out the link in the EA forums here for more details and discussion....

Here is a list of suggestions/ideas I have come up with for GameShow. Most of these were just noted as I was playing and I feel could make GS even better. If you have any of your own feel free to leave them in the comments and I can have those passed along as well. -Friends lists so you can find them when they're on and invite them into rooms or easily pull up their stats. -It would be nice to have chat ability. Even if it is just for in between sessions. -Have updated leaderboards/st...

Night number two of GameShow and once again I got locked into it for over four hours. Thought I would add some more observations. Again if anyone has feedback or suggestions I can have that passed along to the team at EA. I made a couple notes on things I'd like to see below as well. -I've added a tag page for GameShow. So any postings related to it can be found there in one place. Just click gameshow in the tags section of the sidebar. Right now it includes the initial news that GameShow h...

I have a major problem with EA Sports GameShow. It is way too addictive. I didn't expect to be, but I got hooked on it within minutes of firing it up. I had planned to feel it out and run through a couple of the sessions, but ended up staying on for almost four hours right through the end of the live broadcast portion of the day. I used to enjoy trivia type games. I loved the different versions of You Don't Know Jack when I was younger, but I didn't anticipate having that same interest now....

It appears that the launch of EA GameShow has come and gone under the radar. It had been in closed beta for a short while but now is fully operational and open for anyone to play. The free sports trivia PC game is now available for download at the official website. You'll need to create an EA ID, but if you already have one you'll be able to skip that step. I have no idea how my EA ID wasn't already registered but it didn't come up so I had to do that anyway. Then download and install the p...

There is an excellent interview over at Totalvideogames with FIFA Street 3 producer Joe Nickolls. It goes into great detail on many aspects of the game from the technical side (such as using the NBA Street: Homecourt engine and using the AI from the FIFA series) to talking about many of the game modes and how it can be compared to the previous FIFA Street games. You can check out the full interview here. Various media sites have also posted up their hands-on impressions which are a little...