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- Boss Fight Books to Get a New Look for Richard Moss’s “Age of Empires”
- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Wins “Game of the Year” at 2025-2026 GDC Awards
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- The History Of The Word “Metroidvania” And How It Spread – A Critical Hit (2025)
- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
Author: John Scalzo
Madden NFL 25 chosen as name of this year’s game; Cover Vote begins March 11
After teasing us yesterday with the above image, EA Sports has officially announced this year’s version of Madden NFL Football. But instead of carrying the name Madden NFL 14 like we all expected, the game will instead be known as Madden NFL 25 in celebration of the franchise’s 25th anniversary. This is really going to confuse people when the year 2024 rolls around.
“There’s no better way to celebrate and mark the culmination of 25 years of innovation than by naming this year’s game Madden NFL 25,” said Cam Weber, General Manager of American Football for EA Sports. “This year’s game will push the boundaries with gameplay and feature innovations that will lay a very strong foundation for the next 25 years of this storied franchise.”
EA also announced that this year’s Madden Cover Vote will begin on March 11. For Madden NFL 25, the team at EA Tiburon is going back in time to pit 32 NFL legends against 32 current players. Like last year, the bracket will be unveiled live on ESPN2’s SportsNation.
Madden NFL 25 is in development for the PS3 and Xbox 360 and will be released on August 27.
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Madden NFL 14 will celebrate 25th anniversary of the series on August 27
Stop the presses! EA Sports has announced that Madden NFL 14 will be released on August 27. Giving the green light to another Madden game was surely a tough decision for company executives, but they’ve decided to give the team at EA Tiburon another chance.
Madden NFL 14 will be the 25th annual release in the series, stretching all the way back to 1989’s John Madden Football. In fact, EA is even asking gamers to “Check back soon for more details regarding Madden 25.” So it might not be known as Madden NFL 14 at all.
I wonder how John Madden wants to celebrate his silver anniversary? I’m guessing with a nice, juicy piece of turducken.
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Tagged Madden NFL 25
Latest Earth Defense Force 2025 gameplay trailer asks “Victory or Destruction?”
Have you been sitting in front of your computer, madly refreshing D3 Publisher’s YouTube Channel in hopes of finding a new Earth Defense Force 2025 trailer? Just me? OK, then…
But if you’re like me, you’ll be happy to know that a new trailer featuring two minutes of gameplay footage from Earth Defense Force 2025 has just been uploaded. It ain’t much, but if you’ve been caught in the EDF’s web, it’s certainly something.
Earth Defense Force 2025 will be released sometime this year for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
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Tagged Earth Defense Force 2025
Nintendo Download: Puddle, Ikachan, Fire Emblem Awakening on Monday, more
A handful of new games were added to Nintendo’s download services today:
- The tilt-controlled puzzler Puddle is now available on the Wii U eShop.
- Ikachan, the latest game from Nicalis, has been added to the 3DS eShop.
- As has the NES classic Ice Climber.
- The Wii Virtual Console is still kicking as well with the addition of Metal Slug 4.
And on Monday, the next Fire Emblem game, Fire Emblem: Awakening, will be available to download from the 3DS eShop.
More information on all of this week’s new releases can be found after the break. (more…)
Sony is revealing “the future” of PlayStation on February 20
Sony is no stranger to the practice of teasing gamers with a fancy trailer and promises of a big announcement only to reveal another trailer (in fact, they did it yesterday). But the consolemaker has announced that their next big announcement will be revealed to the world on February 20 at 6 PM (Eastern Time). The teaser trailer above, dubbed “See the future,” includes a lot of pretty colors and four familiar shapes (a Circle, a Triangle, an X, and an O).
So what future should we be on the lookout for, Sony? Is it the PlayStation 4/Orbis? A Vita refresh? A new entry in a long-running series for the PS3?
Or is it just another stupid commercial for a commercial? As they say, “once burned, twice shy,” so you’ll forgive me if I’m not jumping up and down over yet another teaser trailer… yet.
Posted in News, PS3, PS4, Vita
Tagged PlayStation Meeting 2013
Grand Theft Auto V release date set for September 17
When I think about Spring, I think about Easter, PAX East, and baseball. What I don’t normally think about is the month of September. But I guess the folks at Rockstar Games think a bit differently from me as they’ve announced that the official release date for Grand Theft Auto V will be September 17, 2013. Let me just check a calendar… nope, September definitely doesn’t fall within the Springtime.
According to Rockstar, the additional development time is required to create the “massively ambitious and complex game” and that it “simply needs a little more polish to be of the standard we and, more importantly, you require.”
I guess we can stop referring to May as the month of Rockstar, huh?
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Tagged Grand Theft Auto V
Sony unveils teaser for God of War: Ascension Super Bowl ad
Do you know how you know you’ve crossed over into the twilight zone? I do. You enter the twilight zone when a video game publisher releases a cryptic teaser trailer like yesterday’s “Game Day” video, which is itself a teaser for another teaser trailer they released less than 24 hours later.
Got all that? Yeah, it doesn’t make any sense to me either.
But that’s just what Sony did. On Tuesday, the publisher pushed out the 17-second “Game Day” teaser that promises a further reveal on February 1. Today, Sony released a slightly longer teaser trailer for what we now know is a God of War: Ascension Super Bowl ad. This teaser again ends with the promise of more details on February 1. It’s neat, but it also makes the “Game Day” video a teaser of a teaser of a trailer.
And who wants to be the one to tell Sony that Super Bowl XLVII is actually scheduled for February 3?
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Tagged God of War: Ascension
XBLA Today: Skulls of the Shogun
The first cross-platform Xbox Live Arcade game is here. 17-Bit’s tactical action game Skulls of the Shogun can be synced with your Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Windows 8 PC, and Windows RT tablet so that you can always get a game in.
It’s available for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15) and features, I swear I’m not making this up, vibrant ghost-samurai warriors:
Skulls of the Shogun is a mashup between classic turn-based strategy and fast-paced arcade gameplay. Washing up on the shores of the afterlife, players meet and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal-monks, and mustachioed samurai generals on the way to recapturing lost honor! Boasting an easy to play interface while retaining compelling depth, Skulls of the Shogun is a challenging test of skill for veteran gamers, but friendly even to players new to the genre.
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