Ahhhh, the joys of sports. Why would we even bother watching if we knew the results beforehand? As we all know, the team who is supposed to win will win, and the statistics will always prove to be correct 100 percent of the time in the end. I saw Brad Pitt in Moneyball, so I know how this game is played. I also know that Madden never gets the Super Bowl wrong, except when it picks...
Maybe not so much with the millions of people who buy it every year, but Madden NFL has been struggling with a bit of an image problem over the last several years with gamers. Current generation technology has not seen enough of a technological boost to allow them to advance the series forward beyond slight tweaks, but with the power of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, all that is about...
EA will not be releasing a game in its NCAA Football series in 2014, stating that it is "evaluating our plan for the future of the franchise." The decision comes from a long and difficult legal battle between the NCAA and student athletes who have begun demanding compensation for their efforts. General Manager of American football at EA Sports took to EA's blog The Beat, to explain the...
The NHL franchise was, for a time, the undisputed best sports game coming out on a year-to-year basis. EA found a way to catch lightning in a bottle again and again, and the series went on to suck free time away from tons of NHL fans around the world. Now? Fatigue is starting to wear in. It's been awhile since EA has even found a reason to rethink this franchise, and that fact shows...
It’s Super Bowl weekend! Time for some FOOTBALL! EA is pumped and all set to get you geared up and psyched for another fun year with Madden NFL. Only, 2013 is no ordinary year for the series. With all the talk of Mega Man, Metal Gear, Street Fighter,Final Fantasy and all of our favorite classic gaming series turning a quarter of a decade this past year, we forgot another long running...
FIFA 13 is absolutely the best soccer game available for this year. The physics, the mechanics and all of the UI enhancements have created a great experience for fans of the beautiful game. When reviewing sports titles, capturing the essence of what makes them so good or bad is the general goal. Here are those things. The First Touch is the deepest. First Touch is one of the...
If you're a hockey fan, then you likely already know about the lockout. The NHL has been put on hold this year, and the game won't resume until the owners and players can get together and hash out a brand new Collective Bargaining Agreement. That leaves us, the fans, waiting. It's pretty ironic, then, that NHL 13 can be game of waiting around. You'll wait to play, you'll wait through...
Another year, another Madden. EA Sports has been producing this yearly football series for a long, long time now. With age, the title has fallen victim to minute changes and predetermined perceptions. People see a new Madden, and they think they know exactly what the game has to offer. This year's effort, though, changes in all the right places. Expect better presentation, better...
The NHL franchise is one that's seen a wave of small changes since 08. See, it was NHL 07 that introduced the skill stick to the world of hockey. Since then? It's been years of slight changes and additions. That's the problem with the sports game genre. Every year sees marginal tweaks and additions; that is, until a revolutionary new mechanic comes into play. From the EA Sports rep...
EA Games have announced that they will be shutting online game servers down for 11 of their games on April 13th of this year. Here's the full roster of games losing online functionality, courtesy of EA: BOOM BLOX Bash Party for Wii Burnout™ Revenge for Xbox 360 EA Create for PC, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 EA Sports Active 2.0 for PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 EA Sports Active...