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In this blog you will find insights into game design decisions, concepts, mechanics and execution from a hard core long time gamer with an extensive gaming collection (over 600 titles) that spans every console ever created from the Pong paddle to the PS3

Saturday, December 8, 2012

NCAA Team Builder - Assassin's Creed Themed Team

Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:43 PM.

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I'm a huge fan of the Assassin's Creed series, and created a custom team that I've used the last 3 years now in the NCAA series. They can be found here for NCAA 13, and believe there is an 11 and 12 team for them as well if you want an earlier version.

http://www.easports.com/teambuilder#...849:1351703315

Team Name: Arcadia Assassins
Coach: Ezio Auditore

Team Logo

Alternate ... Read More

Category: NCAA Football

Friday, August 13, 2010

More Great NCAA ScreenShots

Posted on August 13, 2010 at 07:27 PM.

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As much as I dislike the animation in EA Football games due to missing frames, I have to admit that I am greatly enamoured with the graphics/art of NCAA 2011. The images are breath taking, and nigh close to the real thing. Here are some more I took with my offline franchise Devine Dragons in a game that went into 4 OT's!

If you want to see more images, be sure to check out the thread in the forums titled 'The Photographic Side of NCAA Football 2011'.

Category: NCAA Football, Games

Monday, August 9, 2010

Loving TeamBuilder in NCAA 2011

Posted on August 9, 2010 at 05:19 PM.

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TeamBuilder was originally planned for Madden, but due to other priorities was never able to be delivered. It finally found a home in NCAA 2010 and definitely for the better of the NCAA franchise. Though a year older now, and with little new functionality (from what I have been told), I have found TeamBuilder thoroughly enjoyable to use to create a team, and even more enjoyable to play with my custom team in Dynasty mode. I recently created a team called the Devine Dragons (from a city in Texas, ... Read More

Category: NCAA Football, Games

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Madden 11 Demo Impression

Posted on July 27, 2010 at 09:29 PM.

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First thing I noticed when playing the game was Gus Johnson coming through all 7 of my speakers, which was nice as few games make use of all surround sound properly, especially on the 360. The next thing I noticed was that the rendering yet again has not been fix. Animations are not fluid and it still looks like I'm looking at a flip through book book from the 1920s rather than a game rendered on a ... Read More

Category: Madden 11, Games

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

NCAA 2011 Still Images Look Great

Posted on July 20, 2010 at 10:08 PM.

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Whether you think NCAA is a great game, or yet another bust, one of the things that stands out about the game, and has for most EA Football games for years, is the still images. While the game failed to fix the rendering problems, and the animations continue to play out faster than the game can render them, when paused, the game looks great. In fact, from the right angles, it's nigh photo realistic.

People have been taking great shots from their games and sharing them online. Don't ... Read More

Category: NCAA Football, Games

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Why Madden Sucks 'Less' - A Retrospective

Posted on June 19, 2010 at 12:52 AM.

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In March of 2009, prior to learning of the new leadership at Tiburon and the new direction for the Madden franchise, I wrote a forum post titled "Why Madden 2009 Sucks". This was at a time I was extremely frustrated with the quality of Madden as I had just finished up my 1000 points on the XBox 360 and couldn't even continue playing franchise offline.

I didn't exactly put a lot ... Read More

Category: Madden 11, Madden 10, Games

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Exclusive Madden 11 News!

Posted on May 11, 2010 at 05:32 PM.

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A couple of months ago inspired by all of the complaints about Madden and all of the negative speculation, I thought I'd have some fun make a top 10 list. I ended up making some bogus news items. This was originally written for a thread on the Madden forums, but the mods didn't think it would go over well and based on the last weeks responses from some users I have to agree. So enjoy these in the spirit they were meant - fun!

Category: Madden 11, Games

Thursday, April 22, 2010

(Retracted) EA Sports Betrays Their Fans For Ads

Posted on April 22, 2010 at 12:27 AM.

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EDIT/RETRACTION: Not sure what the best way to do this is as several folks have read it and replied. I could delete it, but folks might claim I was trying to hide it, so I'm choosing to leave it and explain my error.

Upon further review of the video, it looks like Coca Cola Zero Ad is part of the video loop and not part of the game. After last years use of the overlay Ads in the ... Read More

Category: Games

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Madden Moment - 1994 NFC Championship Game

Posted on April 11, 2010 at 12:59 AM.

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Madden 09 contained a feature called Madden Moments. Now, I can't claim to have played it, but there's one game that I always replay with every football game I own year in and year out, and that's the 1994 NFC Championship game (actually played in January of 1995) where the Dallas Cowboys faced the San Francisco 49ers. I watched this game, I screamed at this game, and the outcome was one that to this day I wish I could change. It's a Madden Moment I would definitely play over and over agian if ... Read More

Category: Madden 11

Saturday, April 10, 2010

I Want Windows 7

Posted on April 10, 2010 at 09:16 AM.

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I'm not a windows fan, especially after purchasing my first MacBook Pro laptop a little over a year ago which I'm still using and loving to this day. However, after viewing this Ad for Windows 7, I have to say I am VERY interested in the new OS. I don't know what it is, but windows has never looked or sounded more sexy.

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