Electronic Arts has announced that it will be bringing Madden NFL Arcade to PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Arcade "just in time for the holidays in December."Developed by EA Tiburon,...

Best headline ever. Cleveland Browns fan John Thompson is known for representing his beloved football team by wearing a terrifying bulb-eyed dog mask. You'd think the man would be happy to appear...

Destructoid reader Will sent over this picture he snapped in his Owensboro, KY, Best Buy -- it's a box for Electronic Arts' Madden NFL 10 that proudly displays this erroneous sticker: "Play ...

Finally -- the Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Companion App is available via the iTunes App Store. Created with the freak in mind, the Online Franchise-specific App allows players to fiddle with ...

The latest Wolfenstein release didn’t sell well during its launch week. According to the latest NPD numbers, a mere 106,000 units were sold between August 25th and August 29th. The Xbox 360...

The debate destruction trail continues hot off the heels of Guitar Hero's corpse from last week. Another week, another homicide. This one wasn't as horrible to witness, but it still made you want...

Electronic Arts delivers. Swift Michael Vick is joining the Madden NFL 10 roster after his reinstatement into the NFL. Specifically, he will wear the Kelly green, silver, and brilliant white as a...

After a short run against the Washington Redskins, the dreaded notice came up: “B. [Brandon] Jacobs is going to be evaluated by team doctors.” The New York Giants subbed in their smal...

It's that time of year again. Madden is out, and when Madden comes out the sports world and the game world collide for a brief moment before rebounding back to their proper places. What happens w...

What better way is there to spend a slow news Friday than to bring you fun and quirky stories from the world of videogame lore? Case in point: our video director R3y headed out to Wal-Mart last n...

This is a thing that's happening: Raven Software designer Manveer Heir has offered to pay for your copy of Wolfenstein if it outsells Electronic Arts' Madden NFL 10 in August. While the final sal...

For some reason, GameStop has felt the need to announce that its stores will be holding Madden NFL 10 midnight launch events at more than 3,000 of its U.S. locations this Thursday, August 13. Uh,...

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: Samit Sarkar and Brad Nicholson have spent the past few days playing EA Sports’ Madden NFL 10, and they’re here to give you th...

One of the greatest excuses to let the computer play against itself in Madden is so that the game can predict the outcome of real life games. Every year around the game's launch EA does exactly t...

While Bethesda may have backed off after horse armor, Electronic Arts continues to keep micro-transactions at the forefront of its downloadable content strategies. The latest title supported by a...

With the highly-anticipated launch of Madden NFL 10 only a week and a half away, it’s high time for you to familiarize yourself with the game if you haven’t done so already. To that e...

In case you haven’t kept up, EA Tiburon has made numerous visual improvements to the Madden series with Madden NFL 10. They’re justifiably proud, so they’ve put together a bunch...

Remember 3 on 3 NHL Arcade, the $10 PSN/XBLA hockey game that hearkened back to arcade sports classics like NBA Jam and NFL Blitz? Well, it seems that NHL Arcade sold well enough for EA Sports to...

For those who thought that Seattle Seahawks wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh was merely joking when he complained about his attributes in Madden NFL 10 and said he was boycotting the game, well,...

Electronic Arts has announced the soundtracks for its fall lineup of EA Sports titles, which includes Madden NFL 10, FIFA 10, NHL 10, and NBA Live 10. As expected, it's a lot of damned music, rep...

Sure, the annual Madden ratings are a big deal to football players -- and for the particularly egotistical ones, it’s natural to feel that the game doesn’t properly assess their talen...

In the 21 years since its inception, EA Sports’ Madden NFL series has grown from a mere football videogame into a true cultural phenomenon. It’s the most renowned sports franchise in ...

Really, it’s okay to shed a tear or two if you’re a Madden fan who doesn’t have an Xbox 360 and an Xbox Live Gold account. I’m doing it right now, since I only own a PS3.L...

It’s a big day for the Madden team at EA Tiburon: today, EA Sports officially announced (see PR after the jump) that Madden NFL 10 has gone gold. In case you’re unfamiliar with gaming...

EA has cleared up some of the misinformation going on with the Madden 10 pre-order demo offer. Originally, people believed that the only way you’d be able to get the demo is if you pre-orde...

During the EA press conference at E3, Peter Moore revealed that Madden NFL 10 will have an online franchise mode, an announcement that got Madden fans everywhere pumped for the upcoming football ...

GameStop has just announced that pre-ordering Madden NFL 10 for the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 will net its  customers an exclusive demo of the title. The demo will features four five-minute ...

One of the major new features in EA Sports’ Madden NFL 10 is online cooperative play -- in fact, it’s new to the Madden franchise as a whole. It’s a pretty big deal; until now, ...

It's no fun getting your ass kicked in Madden. Just because you never watch football, don't have all these different patterns ingrained in your head, and aren't in a frat, doesn't mean that you s...

Electronic Arts dropped a bunch of Madden NFL 10 screens this morning, all of which you can view in our beautiful gallery. The point of these (there’s always a point) is to illustrate Tibur...

The gang at EA Tiburon is aiming to bring gamers the most accurate football simulation ever made, and chief among their improvements to gameplay in Madden NFL 10 is the game’s all-new Pro-T...

Love it or hate it, you’ve got to at least acknowledge and respect the massive cultural phenomenon that is EA Sports’ Madden NFL series. With over 70 million copies sold, it’s t...

It’s a historic year for Madden: for the first time in the illustrious football franchise’s 21-year history, the cover will feature two athletes, Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polam...

Hold on, let me put on my Samit hat. Fresh off the news that he will be retiring, John Madden is back in the news, but this time he probably won't be celebrating anything. Former Cleveland Brown ...

After a storied football coaching tenure and an even more impressive and prolific career in the broadcast booth, John Madden has decided to retire at age 73. Madden noted that he is in good healt...

As I’ve mentioned before, this year, EA Sports has been much more willing to divulge details on the latest iteration of its venerated Madden NFL franchise, and at a much earlier point than ...

EA has been giving gamers a behind-the-scenes look at the development process for Madden NFL 10 on its Inside EA Sports blog for a while now, but today, they’ve blown the lid with a major a...

Last year, the consensus held that Madden NFL 09 was a huge step forward for a franchise that had grown stale. In a surprising and welcome change, EA Tiburon has been very transparent with the de...

Every year, the Madden ratings are the subject of much discussion and controversy among gamers and NFL players alike; both groups tend to have strongly held opinions on how they turn out. You can...

Yes, Madden NFL 10 -- as opposed to Madden NFL 2010 -- is the official name of this year’s installment in EA Sports’ storied football franchise. I wish it wasn’t true, but it ...

The NFL playoffs this year have been insane. It seems as if regular-season success means absolutely nothing come January -- for example, my Giants, the NFC’s top seed, were the victims of...

The above image is the sight that greeted one young boy as he opened the first game purchased for his brand new Xbox 360. Having bought the system and game with his own Christmas money, the lad e...

Kansas Jayhawks wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe has had a kick-ass season, racking up 78 receptions for 1,206 yards and 12 touchdowns (including three straight 100-yard games). How did he do it? No,...

The other week, we brought you a story about an Obama ad present on a billboard in Burnout Paradise. While we were skeptical about it, it has been proven true. This morning, I was greeted with th...

Last month was crazy for the industry. Game sales were up 41% over last year. But, as summer winds down, so does the videogames industry. We're in what you might call that pre-holiday season lull...

Two decades is a damn long time, and that’s how long Madden NFL has reigned supreme in the realm of simulation football videogames. The franchise has had its ups and downs, to be sure, but ...

If you skipped out on the Madden 09 special edition packaging because of the hefty price, then you missed out on grabbing the newest Head Coach offering. Don’t worry EA always has it covere...

Back in June, we told you about two gamers who filed a class-action lawsuit against EA, alleging that the corporation’s exclusivity agreement with the National Football League was a monopol...

If you’re a fan of the Madden NFL series, there is a slight chance that you already know about the Brett Favre trade this offseason. Aside from making every self-respecting NFL fan cringe a...

In case you haven’t heard, Brett Favre is now the former quarterback of the Green Bay Packers -- he was traded to the New York Jets late last night for a conditional fourth-round draft pick...

[video]98318:125[/video]If I said I that I believed John Madden still had the capacity to talk about the NFL in any reasonable capacity, I would be lying. I would also be framed as a liar if I ta...

In case I didn’t cover all the bases well enough, the demo for Madden NFL Football 2009 hit both PSN and Xbox Live yesterday. I took the glorious opportunity to download the title on both p...

It looks as though the only console to ever weigh over forty pounds will be receiving the Madden gift this August. A writer at EastBayRI noticed, on the bottom of a press release pertaining to Ma...

As most sports fans are aware, Brett Favre is stirring up some trouble in Green Bay.  The latest news is that the veteran has signed his reinstatement papers, and has quietly told the Packer...

Lately, Brett Favre has been doing everything that he can to bastardize Packers fans’ memories of the old gunslinger. As if leaving on a costly interception and juggling retirement isn't ba...

We’re already into July, so EA Sports’ August 12th launch of Madden NFL 09 on every current platform known to man (and some unknown to this man) is right around the corner. Accordingl...

How many of you play in fantasy football leagues every fall? Well, probably not that many, since this is Destructoid, after all. But think of the thousands -- nay, millions -- of people across th...