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Madden NFL 13 Cover Nominees: NFC East
Are you ready for some football? How about a long and drawn out fan vote to decide who will appear on the cover of Madden NFL 13? Well, EA Sports has you covered on both.
Every day this week, the Madden-maker will continue to reveal each division’s nominees for the game’s cover. The 64-player tournament will initially include two players from each team. Beginning March 7, fans can head over to the ESPN SportsNation Facebook Page to decide who will represent each team in the final 32-player bracket.
Today’s nominees come from the NFC East:
Dallas Cowboys
DeMarcus Ware or Jason Witten
New York Giants
Victor Cruz or Jason Pierre-Paul
Philadelphia Eagles
LeSean McCoy or Michael Vick
Washington Redskins
Ryan Kerrigan or Brian Orakpo
With their Super Bowl victory, the G-Men (Victor Cruz and Jason Pierre-Paul) obviously have a leg-up in the Madden NFL 13 cover competition. Especially because both players delivered big performances during the playoffs. But don’t count out LeSean McCoy or Michael Vick. Vick is a former Madden coverboy and McCoy is one of the best running backs in the league.
Of course, even with Vick’s on-the-field credentials, many people have other reasons not to vote for him.
Madden NFL 13 Cover Nominees: AFC East
Are you ready for some football? How about a long and drawn out fan vote to decide who will appear on the cover of Madden NFL 13? Well, EA Sports has you covered on both.
Every day this week, the Madden-maker will continue to reveal each division’s nominees for the game’s cover. The 64-player tournament will initially include two players from each team. Beginning March 7, fans can head over to the ESPN SportsNation Facebook Page to decide who will represent each team in the final 32-player bracket.
Today’s nominees come from the AFC East:
Buffalo Bills
Ryan Fitzpatrick or Stevie Johnson
Miami Dolphins
Reggie Bush or Brandon Marshall
New England Patriots
Rob Gronkowski or Wes Welker
New York Jets
Darrelle Revis or Mark Sanchez
A Tight End has never been chosen as the cover athlete for any Madden NFL release. Even though we’re less than halfway through the nominees, I think New England’s Rob Gronkowski has a very good chance of breaking down that barrier. Statistically, there was no better receiver in the NFL in 2011.
Oh, but uh, I guess Wes Welker is pretty good too. So it’s probably too early to make that kind of prediction.
Madden NFL 13 Cover Nominees: NFC West
Are you ready for some football? How about a long and drawn out fan vote to decide who will appear on the cover of Madden NFL 13? Well, EA Sports has you covered on both.
Every day this week, the Madden-maker will continue to reveal each division’s nominees for the game’s cover. The 64-player tournament will initially include two players from each team. Beginning March 7, fans can head over to the ESPN SportsNation Facebook Page to decide who will represent each team in the final 32-player bracket.
Today’s nominees come from the NFC West:
Arizona Cardinals
Larry Fitzgerald or Patrick Peterson
San Francisco 49ers
Vernon Davis or Patrick Willis
Seattle Seahawks
Marshawn Lynch or Earl Thomas
St. Louis Rams
Brandon Lloyd or Chris Long
Now we’re getting somewhere. Fitzgerald is a former Madden coverboy and Patrick Willis is one of the best defensive players in the league. But are either of them deserving for the cover of Madden NFL 13? They’ve got to come out on top of the play-in round first.
Madden NFL 13 Cover Nominees: AFC West
Are you ready for some football? How about a long and drawn out fan vote to decide who will appear on the cover of Madden NFL 13? Well, EA Sports has you covered on both.
Starting today, the Madden-maker will reveal each division’s nominees for the game’s cover. The 64-player tournament will initially include two players from each team. Beginning March 7, fans can head over to the ESPN SportsNation Facebook Page to decide who will represent each team in the final 32-player bracket.
Today’s nominees come from the AFC West:
Denver Broncos
Von Miller or Tim Tebow
Kansas City Chiefs
Dwayne Bowe or Derrick Johnson
Oakland Raiders
Sebastian Janikowski or Shane Lechler
San Diego Chargers
Antonio Gates or Phillip Rivers
Out of these eight players, I’d say only Tebow is a lock for the final bracket. And what is Sebastian Janikowski… a kicker… even doing in this vote? Don’t get me wrong, kickers are awesome, but you’ll never see one on the cover of a Madden game. And Lechler’s inclusion is just, I don’t want to say joke, but come on now…
Daily Scoop: February 28, 2012 – Gold Box Tuesday!
Whew! That was some weekend. I never wanted it to end! I loaded myself up with too much Dungeons and Dragons on Saturday – actually, it wasn’t too much, it was just enough. But I still felt like a glutton. And Sunday I got my fill of board games with half a dozen (losing) games of Pandemic. Sometimes you just want to play until you win, but the mutation isn’t going to let you do that!
Anyway, welcome, ladies and gents, to yet another Gold Box event in video games! Hopefully the Gold Box deals today won’t be as bland as they usually are. I’m sorry, is that too pessimistic?
Here’s our list for today:
- 6AM PST/9AM EST – “Make hell your battleground in this hot release for the PlayStation Vita” – Army Corps of Hell for the Vita for $29.99!
- 8AM PST/11AM EST – “Grab your eyepatch for this PSP adventure” – this is LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean for PSP for $13.99!
- 10AM PST/1PM EST – “The latest installment in the world-renowned series, which has shipped over 100 million units worldwide.” – could this be Final Fantasy XIII-2?
- 1PM PST/4PM EST – “Turtle Beach’s top-of-the-line XBOX 360 headset” – pretty self-explanatory
- 3PM PST/6PM EST – “Get a total body dance workout on the Nintendo Wii!” – some kind of fitness game – perhaps Zumba Fitness?
- 6PM PST/9PM EST – “Its getting dark in here… Again” (Hey Amazon – that should be “It’s getting dark in here.” Get some editors!) – Darkness II, anyone?
- 8PM PST/11PM EST – “Play with all your favorite toys within this DS game” – we’re thinking Skylanders
On the t-shirt tip, this one is completely unrelated to video games, but any t-shirt that references “The Wire” is a must-buy in my book: (more…)
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News, PSP, Vita
MotorStorm RC revs up on PSN, Vita on March 6
Get ready for some big MotorStorm fun in a tiny package! MotorStorm RC will be coming to the PSN and the Vita on March 6 for just $9.99, says the PlayStation Blog.
According to Game Director Paul Rustchynsky, the game “started out as a simple concept we were playing around with during lunch times, a pet project to challenge each other to set the fastest times, originally using post-its on the wall as a low-fi leaderboard!”
The game looks like an awful lot of teeny fun, and with the ability to play it on both your PS3 and take it on the go on your Vita, there’s a lot of potential here for replayability – or constant playability.
Be sure to pick the game up on March 6, and “check out the extremely rare vehicles while you’re [in the PlayStation Store]… if that sort of thing takes your fancy.”
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged MotorStorm RC
Sony’s Game Design Chief, Shuhei Yoshida, talks UMD Passport, Vita security
Shuhei Yoshida, Game Design Chief at Sony, doesn’t seem to be afraid of Nintendo or the competition from the 3DS in this interview with Wired during the Dice Summit. Yoshida had a lot to say about the Vita, which launched today in the US.
We already knew UMD Passport wasn’t coming to the US, but Yoshia explains why: because the demand for UMD games, and games for the portable systems in general, is much higher in Japan, where the prices are also much higher.
“Lots of people who are interested in trying Vita are also interested in playing PSP games that they might purchase before Vita comes out, and will not necessarily choose the digital version,” Yoshida said. “When the games are already sold at a lower price in the U.S. we see less value in introducing that kind of system.”
And their fear of piracy running as rampant on the Vita as it did on the PSP? “There will always be the effort by those hackers. They are so smart, they’re sharp. But when you compare what happened with PSP to PS3, there are some hacking activities on PS3 but we’ve been doing much better. Our teams in Japan learned a lot and are applying that knowledge to fortifying PS Vita. So hopefully we will have much stronger protection on PS Vita.”
He also talked about the PlayStation Suite, which Sony is “definitely” looking to add sometime this year, to both the Vita and to Android devices.
Touch My Katamari, Plants vs Zombies, more Vita games added to PSN
Sony has pushed out another Vita-centric update for the PlayStation Store, adding Touch My Katamari, Plants vs Zombies, Army Corps of Hell, Dynasty Warriors Next, and many, many more. A trio of free Augmented Reality titles were also added to the store. So if you’ve got a Vita, I recommend checking them out.
On the PS3 side of things, Sony has added two Full PS3 Games: 2K Czech’s Mafia II and Starkiller’s second adventure, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II.
Hit the jump for the complete list of this week’s new releases and be sure to visit the PlayStation Blog for details on all of this week’s new game add-ons. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged Army Corps of Hell, Touch My Katamari