"Fall is approaching and that means two things; the kids are back in school and EA Sports is going sell a butt-load of absolute regurgitated garbage to gamers. While that might sound cynical, it comes from someone who’s been playing the series since the game was on the Sega Genesis. So with another release comes another dumbed-down edition of videogame football that makes it possible for completely new players to be competitive against diehards. Of course the diehards of Madden football now are pretty much fratboys and, if ESPN’s specials are to be believed, the MOST urban white boys you’ve ever seen. So to fit in, we’ve thrown on our over-sized jersey of teams we have no affiliation with from areas we’d never walk through at night, practiced sounding as ghetto as possible and took to playing Madden 11 online for our review. The question is whether or not we talked trash or if we were playing it. Aww snap!"
There’s no doubting the impact that this week’s Presidential Election has had not just on the US but the whole world. While we can’t forget the result (be it good or bad, depending on your political leanings) we can at least distract ourselves with a few good old fashioned video games.
Luke looks at the most influential features of Madden on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
A jury in U.S. District Court today ruled in favor of Robin Antonick, the original designer and developer of Electronic Arts’ (NASDAQ: EA) best-selling Madden NFL Football games.
ouch, how many millions do EA owe Robin Antonick?
$200 million in revenues for games released between 1990 and 1996
Damages relating to 1997-2013 games will be tried in a subsequent phase of the trial. (I suspect $600 million more, just averaging out)
That is ALOOOT OF MONEY
EA is going to have to compensate 800 million dollar's worth!. Who wants to bet the next big EA title would be pay to win?
Antonick might be seeing hundreds of millions of dollars with this.
Who is surprised by this? It's EA and it's Madden. You almost always pay 60+ bucks for a roster update.
wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG!
Until there is a mass boycott of the game. They will keep doing it. So many people are just plain ignorant about these things. DONT BUY IT IF YOU DONT SUPPORT IT. Don't buy the game then bitch because EA got your money.
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