This is getting ridiculous. I mocked EA earlier because they weren’t able to deliver on the on-line community promises. Turns out the data was handled by a third party, and their systems were fried. My bad. They still could have put up a notice about that.
So easportsworld.com is now accessible and so is my NCAA [...]
Entries Tagged as 'EASports'
EA makes me cry
July 23rd, 2007 · 5 Comments · Gaming, Sports
Magazine covers and EA Sports
June 20th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Gaming, Sports
If you’re a sports fan and you’ve perused the magazine rack at your local bookstore, you’ll notice most of the pre-season rags will have an athlete from your favorite team on the cover. “Cool,” you think, “everyone will see the great Troy Smith on the cover of Althon Sports pre-season magazine.” Well, not everyone. Some [...]
Sequels, sequels everywhere
August 9th, 2005 · 4 Comments · Gaming
This NY Times article is the latest in a long line of both EA bashing and bemoaning of sequelitis that is rampant among major video game publishers. This passage is getting the most attention:
By year’s end, Electronic Arts plans to release 26 new games, all but one of them a sequel, including the 16th version [...]
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Football X’s and O’s
August 1st, 2005 · No Comments · Sports
While the NCAA 2006 criticisms are piling up, The Blog for the Sports Gamer points to a forum discussion about a game-stopping flaw in Madden 2006. If you don’t have (or feel like making) an account on Operation Sports, here’s the pertinent information:
20 yard dropback shouldnt be an issue this year. whats going to be [...]
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The ‘mystery’ of FIFA Street
April 28th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Gaming
The ‘mystery’ of FIFA Street : Guardian Unlimited Gamesblog
This is a great read about how EA is slowly taking over the world, one poor(?) video game at a time.
This is why FIFA Street is number one. It hits all the right buttons. It is mainstream, but yet has an ‘edge’. It has good graphics. It [...]
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Next-Generation Madden
April 24th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Gaming
I, for one, was not too impressed with the next generation of EA’s Madden Football. I watched the 60-second commercial that ran on ESPN during the NFL draft (which I’m sure by now is available online) and it didn’t do it for me.
First, the models look hyper-realistic. They look like a cross between NFL Blitz [...]
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Hail to the Victors…
April 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Gaming
… Hail, Hail, to EA Sports, the owners of all Licenses!
I saw this first over at Evil Avatar (I’ll avoid referring to them as EA for a while) and then saw pretty much everywhere else, but EA has scooped up the NCAA football rights. Big surprise.
What does surprise me, though, is this “Collegiate Licensing Company” [...]
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Electronic Arts, ESPN hook up in exclusive 15-year deal – News at GameSpot
January 17th, 2005 · No Comments · Gaming
Electronic Arts, ESPN hook up in exclusive 15-year deal – News at GameSpot: First and foremost: Electronic Arts is a company in the business of making money. Having exclusive rights to things like the NFL and ESPN will give them the only game in town. Having said that, they are playing quite dirty with Sega/Take [...]
NCAA 2005 is only 11 days away!
June 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Gaming, Sports
I posted that earlier link from work, I don’t think I’ll be doing that much anymore. Probably wouldn’t be the most appropriate activity, even though I was at lunch. Either way, I probably won’t post much from work.
NCAA 2005 is going to be sweet! Some say the pump-up-the-crowd angle will be done poorly but I [...]
Taking EA to task
October 9th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Commentary
Good post over at Dubious Quality, wherein Bill takes EA to task about the future of their sports games. Thoughtful stuff. Thinking about this is disconcerting, if Bill’s vision of the future comes true.
In other words, NBA Live might be an absolute train wreck, so bad that EA wouldn’t send out advance copies for review, [...]
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