All those next-gen advancements are coming to the PC for the first time.

This is it. This is the year that football fans on PC have been waiting a while for. EA announced today that EA Sports Madden NFL 24 will be the first release that offers up all of those next-gen features to the PC crowd. This means that stuff like FieldSense and the new Sapien Technology will be included on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC versions of the game.

EA Sports says that Sapien...

Are you ready for some football (and probably other sports)?!

I bring you good news, sports fans! Starting on May 15, Valve kicks off the Steam Sports Fest that will include all kinds of discounts and demos for anything and everything even remotely sports-like on Steam.

Valve says that the Steam Sports Fest will celebrate a wide range of sports games and sport-adjacent games. It'll have football (both kinds!), bowling, parkour, and more. It will even have sports games...

Video games come in different genres, and they've been around for many years. Since the introduction of computerized systems, we’ve enjoyed different video games. These games have also made it into the gambling industry, and if you make the right decision, you can even get inspiration for your next Champions League picks. If you’re a fan of sports, soccer video games are among the most popular options available to players. You just have to make the right decision. You can always make the ri...

Looks like EA really fumbled this one.

There was a period of about 22 hours where, if you logged into Madden NFL 23, there was a chance your Connected Franchise Mode saves became permanently corrupted. The 22-hour long span took place from December 28 through December 29. Those dates happened to come just after EA told players they were good to log in and play. Oops.

Now, the good news here is that if you logged into the game during this time there is a 40% chance that...

EA Sports College Football is still a long way away.

EA says that their anticipated release of EA Sports College Football will not be released until Summer 2024 at the earliest. This is the same College Football title that was announced in early 2021.

The lengthy development time is, according to EA VP and general manager Daryl Holt, due to the team building the game from scratch. Holt made this remarks to ESPN in a new interview. Holt says that the Summer 2024 target...

Streamers and fans are calling for a boycott against MUT pack purchases.

A story from Polygon sheds light on what fans and streamers for Madden NFL 23 are calling a "Pack Strike." Through the power of social media and Twitch, the hashtag #PACKSTRIKE started to gain momentum earlier this week. It began when the biggest Madden streamers and "influencers" said that they are not going to purchase premium currency for use in Madden Ultimate Team (MUT).

Their...

The free trial weekend is only for those on consoles.

From September 8 and running through September 11, those with an Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, or PlayStation 5 can play Madden NFL 23 for free. The free trial is being offered because the start of the NFL season begins this week.

You may think that sales are suffering for this year's release of Madden, but apparently that's not the case. EA says that Madden NFL 23 has seen a 30% increase in the number of...

This comes after years of really buggy releases.

Madden NFL 23 developer, EA Sports, says that this year's release will be the "most polished" version in quite some time. This comes after years of fan complaints over long-standing bugs that have plagued the series, notably with the next-gen releases. The biggest complaints over recent years focused on how the game felt unpolished, the same ol' same ol' presentation year after year, and game modes that were just lacking when...

Russian teams were removed in FIFA 22 and will stay removed for FIFA 23.

FIFA 23 was just announced and with that came fresh information concerning all of the new and improved features being made in this year's release. Those new and improved features include the announcement of HyperMotion2 technology improvements for the next-gen releases, the addition of the men's FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 plus the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023.

We also learned...

A more casual soccer game for those tired of the usual suspects.

Despite it's less than realistic art style, Serious Fun Football boasts that it includes real ball physics, realistic movements, advanced boy collisions, varied player attributes, sophisticated AI, and complex 3D graphics. It's been in development for about six years now from just one person. The development was self-funded from start to finish and is being self-published.

After all these years, Serious Fun...

They promise that this system will deliver "ultra-realistic gameplay" in Madden NFL 23.

Yesterday, Electronic Arts unveiled the three John Madden themed covers for Madden NFL 23. Today, the studio just announced one of the new features coming when Madden NFL 23 launches on August 23: FieldSENSE Gameplay System.

EA says that FieldSENSE will serve as a "new foundation for consistent, ultra-realistic gameplay" that will, you guessed it, only be available...

John Madden once again appears on the cover of the series that bears his name.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach of the Raiders and super well known NFL color commentator, John Madden, will once again return to appear on the cover of a Madden NFL game. With Madden NFL 23, the late John Madden will appear on the cover in a design that harkens back to the look of the first John Madden Football, which came out on June 1, 1988.

Howev er, there will be not one, but three...

Who needs FIFA? Not EA apparently.

It's no surprise that EA and FIFA haven't seen eye to eye over these past several months. FIFA wanted to charge EA a cool $1 billion (USD) every four years to continue using the FIFA license. EA balked at the idea, citing the cost and creative restrictions as the reason, and decided to part ways from FIFA going forward.

Today, EA officially announced that after the release of FIFA 23, the studio will officially change the name of their...

But can it predict which commercials will suck?

According to my calculations, Super Bowl LVI will take place this weekend between the Cincinnati Bengals and the LA Rams. As has become tradition, EA Sports simulated the Super Bowl between the two competing teams and they have determined which of the two is likely to win.

The final score, according to Madden NFL 22's simulation, was 24-21 in favor of the Bengals. This would be Cincinnati's first Super Bowl win ever, assuming...

After its disastrous early access release, it's probably for the best.

Konami has officially delayed the official launch of eFootball until at least Spring 2022. Back in July, Konami announced that they were turning their Pro Evolution Soccer series into a free-to-play and ever evolving soccer title that they were calling eFootball. Unfortunately for them and for fans, the early access release of eFootball was terrible, and that's putting it mildly.

The initial launch...