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Friday, August 13, 2010
More Great NCAA ScreenShots
Posted on August 13, 2010 at 07:27 PM.
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'.

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Category: NCAA Football, Games
Monday, August 9, 2010
Loving TeamBuilder in NCAA 2011
Posted on August 9, 2010 at 05:19 PM.
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.


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.
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.
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.
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!

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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.
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
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Posted My First Story - Fracture
Posted on March 27, 2010 at 06:16 AM.
I absolutely loved the Saints Row series of game. Saints Row 2 so enthralled me that I joined the official forums where I stumbled upon the Stilwater Stories, a collection of short stories written by fans of the games. One of the stories there by Lossefalme really motivated me to take a stab at writing my own story.

As a software ... Read More
Category: Games
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Dissecting My XBox 360
Posted on March 24, 2010 at 08:47 AM.
The XBox 360 has been the worst console I have ever owned in 30 years of gaming. That in and of itself speaks volumes, but the fact that I'm having to take it apart in order to fix it screams either inferior design or corporate greed. Greed you say? Yes. Greed. In their zest to get to market first, MicroSoft released their XBox 360 to the public knowing full well they had 50+% failure rates. Dumping a product that consistently fails within a year of the sale would typically lead to a ****action ... Read More
Category: Games
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Ultimate Madden Team
Posted on March 20, 2010 at 10:13 PM.
I was looking for screenshots for Madden Ultimate Team and came across this image. If you are familiar with Madden and his love for Brett Favre, then you'll appreciate the pic. Enjoy!
Category: Madden 11, Madden 10, Games
Friday, March 19, 2010
Madden Sales 2005 Through 2010
Posted on March 19, 2010 at 12:04 AM.
There's been a lot of discussions regarding Madden sales, whether they are down or up over the last 5 years. Everyone seemed to have a different opinion on the matter. To clear up the confusion I decided to take a few minutes to graph it out. I used VGChartz.com as the source. Unfortunately they did not have any PC numbers for the game, so I believe the graphs don't quite tell the whole story.

PC sales slid over the years to the point they stopped supporting the PC back in 2008 ... Read More
Category: Madden 10, Games
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Just Bought 22 Games for Roughly $250
Posted on March 18, 2010 at 02:25 AM.
I have never purchased from GameStop online before, but today that changed as they were having a buy 1 get 1 free on their preOwned games. I ordered 22 games for roughly $250 total or the cost of 4 brand new games. Take a look at the list and see if I got a good deal. For 22 games, the total came to about $11.50 per game. Needless to say, my 'to play pile', just got a LOT bigger.

Here's the list, all on the XBox 360:
  • Blood Bowl
  • CSI: Deadly Intent
  • Darkest
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Category: Games
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
God of War III Ultimate Edition
Posted on March 16, 2010 at 05:21 PM.
I posted this originally at GameSpot, but thought I would share it here as well. I received my God of War Ultimate Edition from Amazon. I love the Pandora's Box. The artwork is really nice as well. I'm a little disappointed though as I thought there was another CD that would be part of the bundle, but come to find out it's downloadable content on my PS3. Unfortunately I never listen to music on my PS3. Hopefully there's a way to transfer it to my computer/iPod so I can enjoy it everywhere ... Read More
Category: Games
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
TONS of Good Games on the Horizon
Posted on January 27, 2010 at 04:09 AM.
I typically only buy games used, but there are a ton of new games over the February and March timeframe that are going to make it hard for me to wait. Almost all of these are going to be guaranteed buys for me with only Clash of the Titans, White Night Chronicles, and Last Rebellion being on the edge.

God help me. There will be no sleep until April.



XBox 360 / PS3 Games
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Category: Games
Saturday, December 19, 2009
How 2K Sports Rights the Ship
Posted on December 19, 2009 at 01:26 PM.
MMChrisS recently blogged on 2K Sports: The Inevitable Demise. While I agreed with his assessment of the problems facing the company, I do believe all is not lost and the ship can be righted if bold steps are taken to salvage what is there and chart a path for the future.

It's been some bad news over the last couple of years at 2K Sports, that's for sure. All Pro Football 2K8 had weak sales, Prize Fighter was knocked out of the ring, MLB Front Office Manager was a no hitter, MLB lost ... Read More
Category: Games

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