Tag archive: Madden

For the last eight years, EA Sports has proudly fired up the current iteration of Madden, and simulated the Super Bowl predict its winner, generally with favorable results. EA is proud to call their sports games some of the best simulators around, so it makes sense that they fire them up for the big events and pass on the results—whether it be the Super Bowl, the World Cup/Champions League Finals, or the Stanley Cup. Besides, if they didn’t do… Read More

Update:  Now that Madden 12 has been released, we have revisted this article and updated it with the most recent victims.     It started as a joke. A player makes the cover of the Madden franchise and is subsequently seriously hurt the next year, or they take a dramatic downward turn in their performance. Everyone began to joke and say there was a curse, which all but the most superstitious dismissed with a laugh.  Then it started to get… Read More

The website TheFreedictonary.com defines the law of diminishing returns as “The tendency for a continuing application of effort or skill toward a particular project or goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain level of result has been achieved.” And that is my Madden 12 review, thanks for reading, folks. I kid, I kid. Well, sort of. The Madden franchise is one that has managed to defy expectations year after year, and again and again come… Read More

EA Sports is a beast. It is a massive money maker for the publisher, and it continues to hold the attention of millions of rabid fans thanks to a fairly consistent string of quality sports titles. And in this new age where downloadable content for games is not just common but profitable, EA has come up with a new way to offer some online content, give their fans a bit extra and make some scratch off of it in the process, naturally. Earlier… Read More

A few weeks ago, Electronic Arts launched a contest in which fans were asked to vote on which NFL player would be featured on the cover of this summer's Madden NFL 12 release. It's a mixed blessing to be chosen for the honor of course because of the fabled (yet always proven) Madden Curse. Regardless, it's still a big deal, and the fans have now spoken: this year's Madden 12 cover athlete will be… Cleveland Browns… Read More

It wouldn’t be a new video game system if there weren’t at least a few sports games to go with the launch, and EA has stepped up to fill that role with a port of the Madden franchise. With the multiple options that the publisher has to choose from, you would expect EA to have a sports game ready for the launch. You just don’t expect it to be this dull. Madden for the 3DS is an attempt to cram a complex game into a simplistic package, and as a… Read More

In its earnings briefing over the weekend, Nintendo was forced to defend lagging sales of the Wii and DS. Speaking to the company's success, President Satoru Iwata revealed that for 2010, Nintendo games accounted for more than half of the top 20 U.S. software titles for the year. We've typed out the full list below, which is fairly revealing. Though Nintendo systems hold 11 of the top 20 spots, Nintendo-published games account for… Read More

It is just a video game analysis, and nowhere near a scientific study. In fact, they are probably way off. In other words, please don’t kill the messenger, Bears fans! EA Sports has issued its picks for the AFC and NFC Championships to be played this week, with the winners according to EA will be the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The games were simulated using EA’s Madden 11, and while both games were close, neither were… Read More

In what may be the largest example of poking fate in the eye ever, EA has decided to dip its corporate toe into the shark infested waters of Hollywood, then take the long standing superstition of the Madden Curse and turn it into a movie. If you are unfamiliar with the Madden Curse, it is something that began as a joke, then turned into a full on superstition. Since 1999, the cover of the video game Madden Football has featured a current NFL… Read More

Former NFL player Michael E. Davis—perhaps better known as Tony Davis—has filed a lawsuit against video gaming giant Electronic Arts, alleging his likeness was used in EA's Madden NFL 09 video game, but that he was never compensated for it. And the suit isn't just about Davis: he's seeking class action status on behalf of roughly 6,000 retired NFL players who claim their likenesses were used in the game, but were… Read More

Electronic Arts' latest update to its football franchise, Madden NFL 09, lands at retailers today…and already the curse of sports-video-game packaging has struck the game. Madden 09 boxes were originally to feature quarterback Bret Favre in that familiar Green Bay Packers uniform. But Favre went to the New York Jets last week, meaning Madden 09 is redoing its boxes with Favre in a Jet's uniform. Of course, in the game,… Read More

It might be one of the most self-congratulatory press releases to come around these parts lately (PDF), but video game mega-publisher Electronic Arts apparently has some reason to shout and dump an ice-filled cooler of Gatorade all over itself: apparently Madden NFL 07 sold more than two million copies during its first week of release, the best first-week performance in the game franchise's 17-year history. And, in a sign of the… Read More

Electronic Arts today said that their latest Madden NFL franchise game, Madden NFL 06, is now appearing on store shelves for the Playstation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. A PC version will be available on August 17, with a PSP version to follow on September 20. EA has a made a few changes to this latest Madden NFL version, the company said. They've added a new QB Vision Control feature which gives you a… Read More