Posts Tagged ‘latest news’
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Madden NFL 12 Opens With Impressive First Week Sales Numbers
Sales of the Madden NFL franchise continue to climb - along with its digital revenues. Madden NFL 12's opening week displayed a sales increase of 10% over Madden 11 and in doing so is now showing consistent growth as it's tracking 19% over Madden 10's early haul. In the digital arena revenue is up 78% due in large part to Madden Ultimate Team mode as more than 200K card packs have already been purchased. (more…)...
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NFL Rivals Now Available on iOS
From NaturalMotion - the developers behind Backbreaker and Icebreaker - comes NFL Rivals on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for $2.99. With licensed NFL teams (not players or stadiums) and league branding it acts essentially as an update to Backbreaker 2: Vengeance. Players have been skinned in the NFL uniforms and a social leaderboard has been added to track pooled progress during the season as performing for certain teams against that week's actual opponent will help to move them up the r...
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Unlock the Gatorade Celebration in Madden NFL 12 and Prepare to be Disappointed
There currently resides a video on the Madden NFL 12 menu entitled "Unlock the Ultimate Celebration". As with all the streaming videos it pauses every couple seconds making for a frustrating watch - and curiously doesn't even provide the information needed to pull off the special in-game Gatorade celebration. Instead EA Sports tweeted out the specifics yesterday and I went through the process to try it out and record it. In the final 30 seconds of a victory press the following in at the s...
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NBA 2K12 Will Not Include Rookies
Unlike the NFL Lockout, where EA Sports had rights to rookies for Madden NFL 12 regardless of whether there would be a season or not, the NBA lockout will cost its league licensed video game from introducing the incoming rookies. NBA 2K12 will not include any of the rookies drafted in June - as confirmed through a blog posting at Operation Sports from a long-time member who attended a PR event for the game yesterday. The plan would be to add the rookies through a roster update - but that ...
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NHL 12 Complete Team Ratings
The complete team ratings for NHL 12 have come via an Operation Sports video. Offense, defense, and goalkeeping ratings are on display and provide a look not just at top line performers but how each team shapes up depth wise. Pittsburgh comes away with the highest offensive rating, three teams tie for the lead in defense, and Roberto Luongo helps lead the Canucks to the highest team rating at goalie. Overall it's the Penguins who have the highest total rating followed by Vancouver, the Ra...
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Eddie Murphy to Host The Oscars
Eddie Murphy has been selected to host the upcoming Academy Awards, which is scheduled to take place on February 26th 2012. Murphy was once nominated - in 2006 for his supporting role in Dreamgirls. He has more Razzie nominations however as his career took a sharp downturn by taking on roles in some truly terrible films. Still he is fondly remembered for his early career and in particular his brilliant stand-up comedy. Brett Ratner is running the show and chose Murphy, who is in the Novem...
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Madden NFL 12: Hits and Misses
Madden NFL 12 approached release under unique circumstances - a lockout threatening the season, several high level developers departing right in the middle of the development cycle, and the release date being pushed back to the end of August. EA Sports appears to have benefited from the lockout being lifted and the intense excitement for the coming season with the release of the game coming right at the height of anticipation. The enhancements to Madden 12 were meant to satisfy the long-t...
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Tiger Woods 12 Launches for PC and Mac
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters releases today in stores and on EA's Origin.com for the PC and Mac - going for $39.99. The game features Augusta National as well as 14 other courses, "Road to the Masters" career mode, and "Masters Moments". In addition copies of Tiger 12 for the PC and Mac include three months of free access to the web browser based game Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online. Specific to the PC is the ability to play Tiger 12 in one location and pick up with it at another w...
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