Sure many people around the US were busy watching the Black Eyed Peas performance at halftime, but during the halftime show the Madden Blog was putting on a show of its own. In the blog, two new features for the upcoming Madden NFL 12 game, due out later this year, were revealed for the very first time.
Though nothing huge was revealed tonight, it was nice to hear the route they are taking in Madden NFL 12. The first feature announced is the ability to perform surprise onside kicks. This is used to catch your opponent off guard and retain possession of the ball offensively. The second feature that was revealed via the blog is the “Tuner Sets” that will be implemented in the game for updates. This has already been used in other EA Sports titles like the NHL series, and for the first time this year in the NCAA Football series. Ian Cummings, Creative Director of Madden, had this to say on the “Tuner Sets” and what they would change within the game when implemented
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
oh c'mon just bring back the old controls from PS2
god these guys just keep efin up
This was going to be the year I would get into Madden again but there isn't enough improvement on presentation and online matches as far as I can tell to warrant a purchase. There really has be something done about their NFL exclusive deal because until its taken away they aren't going to fix a damn thing.
they just killed online play
I love how they make all these changes and make people think the game is going to be much better each time. All they keep doing is mucking up the game with unnecessary bullshit. Like I seriously don't need to watch them measure when a blind dude could tell I easily had a first down. No I am not responding to the article, just the frustrations of the franchise.
Best thing that could happen is they lose exclusivity of the NFL license. 2K12 is were it would be. Until then, EA will decide how much they want to actually "improve" the game instead of just rehashing it... *cough*cough* Madden11 *cough*cough*. Competition is good for consumers and the quality of the product.