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NFL Head Coach 09: Your Chance To Show Wayne Fontes What’s Up

September 03, 2008

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Six months of football simply won’t satisfy the true NFL junkie. And EA Sports doesn’t think the yearly roll out of Madden NFL 09 and the presence of its arcade cousin, NFL Tour, is enough to sufficiently scratch the itch. NFL Head Coach 09 will fill that gap when it debuts tomorrow on next generation consoles with Colts head coach Tony Dungy on the cover. And by gap I mean the grueling work schedule, the long meetings, the constant player evaluations and the various soul-crushing minutiae of the job turned into an accessible video game.

EA Sports tried this once before with NFL Head Coach on PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2006. Like Bill Cowher, the former Pittsburgh coach who graced the cover, EA has retired that game and started completely from scratch. Das Gamer got a chance to talk to Josh Looman, lead designer at EA Tiburon on the title, about rebuilding the game from the ground up. Read the rest of this entry »

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New This Week: Games Where Your Money Used To Be

September 02, 2008

spore New This Week: Games Where Your Money Used To Be
Spore
Publisher: EA
Developer: Maxis
Mac, PC, DS
On sale: September 7
Fucking A, it’s here. And by “it’s” I mean a merciful end to all the hype. Spore, the game that has been years in the flogging, rolls out this Sunday. Which, taking Spore creator Will Wright’s E3 speech, could very well be a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Book of Genesis. In this case the game has a very real chance of living up to both the hype and possible blasphemy. The release also marks the first step in the battle of the “make games.” Round two commences with the release of LittleBigPlanet in October. You can get the jump on unleashing your new race of Korvaxes, Snorks or some Ron Jeremy-inspired race of walking penises by pre-downloading the software. Will Wright will flip the switch and bring it all to life on Sunday. Tiger Woods isn’t the only dude that walks on water around that company.
Pre-order your copy of Spore.

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