
Football games have been stuck in a cyclical pattern for the last decade. Mainly giving you a roster update and some incremental gameplay changes, which while welcome, haven't really pushed the genre forward. Madden has been great but it's brand of football is getting tiring and football is ready for a re-invigoration in gaming. Hopefully this weeks most anticipated has a chance of doing just that...

With Football season upon us, TechRaptors Robert Grosso tackles one of the best alternatives to Madden from last generation, Backbreaker.

ZNGA stock has skidded across the bottom for some time now, the days of its $7 billion valuation sorely behind it, and that’s actually good news for the company, which is now trading at a discount in a sector known for extreme valuations, giving the San Francisco company attainable growth benchmarks to hit.

Gamesauce says: "Simon Mack, CTO of NaturalMotion, knew at an early age that he wanted a career in software development but, although he grew up playing games, he never considered the possibility of working in the games industry. While he was studying at his university, a friend introduced him to a company called MathEngine and the physics simulation middleware they were making. He says, “I was blown away—this was unlike anything I had seen before and more advanced than I had thought possible. I got an internship there and was hooked.”