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The NFL Takes Down Chrysler Super Bowl Ad from Chrysler's Own YouTube Channel

The big media companies argued that they need things like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA to protect their content from online "thieves." The current laws just don't cut it. At the same time, opponents argue that any such laws, or treaties, are going to be abused. The discussion about abuse is not a theoretical one, the ex...

6 February 2012
10:31 GMT

Download the Super Bowl XLVI Commemorative iPad App

NFL Enterprises has released the official Super Bowl XLVI Commemorative app for iPad. Presented by NFL Magazine, the app lets you celebrate Super Bowl XLVI with official video highlights of the game, interviews, pictures, animated plays, and stadium shots. Super Bowl XLVI Commemorative App chronicles the team's...

6 February 2012
08:07 GMT

Super Bowl XLVI Commercials Coming to Their Own YouTube Channel

YouTube has partnered with NBC Sports and created Ad Blitz, an YouTube channel entirely focused on the World's biggest single day sporting event, the NFL's 2012 Super Bowl game.After this Sunday's Championship games decided this year's finalists, companies and websites around the Internet official...

24 January 2012
12:33 GMT

NFL's Tim Tebow Sends Twitter into a Frenzy Setting New Sports TPS Record

Twitter records are meant to be broken and most don't seem to last very long. Every time a huge event throws Twitter into a frenzy and has people talking like never before, something else comes along and blows it out of the water. Twitter has just announced that American footballer Tim Tebow managed to set a ne...

10 January 2012
05:45 GMT

Original Madden Programmer Sues EA for 20 Years of Royalties

Robin Antonick, who is one of the original developers of the Madden series, has launched a suit against video game publisher Electronic Arts, saying that he has not been paid royalties on derivative works for more than 20 years. The developer says that Electronic Arts has used the technologies that Antonick has cr...

4 April 2011
15:01 GMT

EA Extends Exclusive Madden Deal to 2012

A report in a source that is focused on sports business deals suggests that video game publisher Electronic Arts and the National Football League have entered into a new agreement which extends their exclusive licensing deal until 2013. The report appears in the Sports Business Journal and means that after the game ...

15 February 2011
14:51 GMT

Apple Tweets Invite to Download the Official Super Bowl XLV App - Free

Apple has tweeted an invitation to users of an iOS device, encouraging them to download the official Super Bowl XLV app to navigate the stadium, find friends and places to grab a bite. Last week Apple confirmed the availability of the App Store Twitter account, where fans can follow the updates to discover new app...

31 January 2011
08:45 GMT

Judge Says Class Action Madden NLF Suit Can Go Ahead

A judge based in the United States has certified the class action anti trust lawsuit that was brought against publisher Electronic Arts because of the way it has used its exclusive licensing rights for the National Football League to inflate prices on its sports simulation series of games. Vaughn Walker, who is a ...

28 December 2010
15:01 GMT

Dallas Cowboys Fumble Domain Name After Losing the Season

In a season where everything went wrong for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, their technical team forgot to renew the official site's domain name at the worst time possible.Dallas is hosting this year's Superbowl, so everybody was expecting the team to be the first one ever to play the NFL supreme game on its...

10 November 2010
03:59 GMT

EA Wins a Lawsuit, Has More Left to Deal With

Jim Brown, a legendary running back for the Cleveland Browns, was known for being an unstoppable freight train on the football field. Still, it seems the athlete present in the NFL Hall of Fame and star in movies such as Three the Hard Way and The Dirty Dozen got a crushing tackle in the court of law. Last year, Jim ...

1 October 2009
06:49 GMT

Chad Ochocinco Threatens to Delete Twitter Account

In every group of people around the world, there is a person that always seems to be updated with the latest technology trends around the web. Well, in the NFL, that person is male-diva WR, Chad Ochocinco from the Cincinnati Bengals. After recent developments in the league's player conduct policy, the disgruntle...

5 September 2009
03:50 GMT

The NFL Website Gets a Facelift

The new NFL season is about to start on September 10, 2009 and the league is actively preparing for it with a re-launch of its homepage. Page design, video player and scoreboard features have been changed to reflect (American) football fan's needs.Launched yesterday, the new design still has its flaws but admins...

28 August 2009
04:43 GMT

NFL to Enforce Twittering Rules

The NFL (National Football League) is worldwide recognized as having one of the most harsh internal set of player conduct rules of all sports. Recently, an NFL official has stated on NFL Total Access, a show on the league's official TV channel, that the NFL is working together with some big social network websit...

5 August 2009
09:19 GMT

Yahoo Settles with the NFL Players Union

Another lawsuit was dismissed today, after MLB manager Tony La Russa dropped the suit against Twitter, as Yahoo has settled with the National Football League's (NFL) players union. Yahoo filed a suit last month claiming it shouldn't have to pay to use the player names and other data in its fantasy football ...

8 July 2009
04:48 GMT

Yahoo Sues the NFL Players Association

Yahoo has taken the NFL Players Association, which is the National Football League players' union, to court on the grounds that it shouldn't have to pay for player data such as names, statistics or photos it uses in its online fantasy football league game as all the information is already public.Yahoo claim...

4 June 2009
11:33 GMT

Retired NFL Players Target EA and Madden over Unpaid Royalties

Sports titles generate a lot of money, largely because there are a lot of people passionate about sports and video games around the world. If you take up an activity that has a lot of fans, like American football or European soccer, then the success of a video game based on it and bearing the likenesses of famous pla...

22 April 2009
02:43 GMT

Football Sensors Help Referees Reduce Human Error

American Football and the NFL could benefit from a new invention devised by Carnegie Mellon computer engineering professor Dr. Priya Narasimhan, which could reduce the number of human errors in football games considerably. Basically, the new system consists of a GPS receiver and a bunch of sensors inserted in the bal...

20 December 2008
06:10 GMT

EA Sports Might Auction Madden Cover Spot for Charity

EA Sports is one of Electronic Arts' biggest divisions, generating massive income with the yearly releases of games based on the most popular sports out there. Be it European soccer, with the FIFA series, or basketball, with the NBA Live franchise, a lot of sports have been marketed by EA. But the most successfu...

28 October 2008
08:31 GMT

Madden 09 Supports Breast Cancer Awareness Month

It's really nice to see big companies do something for charities every now and again. It just goes to prove that games aren't all that bad for the community or that they encourage only dangerous behavior. Such is the case now with big game company Electronic Arts, which will release a special edition of th...

3 October 2008
19:01 GMT

Free Trips to Football Games, From Alltel

It looks like it's a "contests day" today, as only few hours after Verizon announced its Jonas Brothers / Paradise initiative, Alltel, the fifth largest US mobile carrier, has also come up with an attractive sweepstakes. Unlike the Verizon one, though, Alltel's contest has to do with football and not with m...

28 August 2008
12:38 GMT

NFL Mobile Live Available from Sprint

At the same time with the release of its two new clamshells (Motorola VE20 and Sanyo Katana Eclipse), Sprint has also launched NFL Mobile Live, presented as "the only wireless source for complete, live access to NFL action".Brought to US users in collaboration with the National Football League, NFL Mobile Live is ava...

19 August 2008
05:20 GMT

Blitz Brings You True Football Again

If you are a football fan, you probably already love Midway's Blitz game - one that takes the beloved sport to a whole new level by bringing the pain to the game. And we all know that whenever violence is involved, we're in for a treat! The good news is that PS3 and Xbox 360 owners will get a brand new and ...

9 July 2008
12:06 GMT

NFL Tour - Achievements (Xbox 360)

In NFL Tour, anyone can pull off amazing highlight reel plays using only a few buttons, as the game sports a very intuitive control scheme and fast-paced gameplay. With real NFL players as teammates, you get to travel across the country and take on each of the NFL teams in newly custom-designed stadiums.However, NFL ...

8 July 2008
09:07 GMT

Blitz: Overtime - Cheats (PSP)

Midway no longer owns the NFL license, so they had to come up with a similar construct and thus we have Blitz: Overtime. It was developed and published by Midway Games and launched on December 12 for the PSP. It is quite similar to the gridiron football Blitz games and features a set of slightly different rules than ...

27 May 2008
10:21 GMT

NFL Tour Released for Xbox 360 & PS3. $39.99!

Today marks the day that NFL Tour launches for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 across North America, retailing for just $39.99. Electronic Arts has confirmed that the new NFL and NFL PLAYERS-licensed arcade football video game, is now available in retail stores, so you can go out and grab your own copy right now!In N...

9 January 2008
08:33 GMT

Madden NFL 08 en Espanol 'en Game Shopas'

Electronic Arts has recently gone public announcing that Madden NFL 08 En Espanol has shipped to retailers, being available for systems Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox 360. The Spanish version of Madden NFL 08 features exclusive Spanish language content, including additional music tracks, and Spanish play-by-pl...

17 December 2007
04:17 GMT

Sprint Offers NFL Highlights to Its Customers

NFL fans and fantasy football players can now take the NFL with them wherever they go. Available only to Sprint customers, NFL Mobile seems to be the perfect companion for the NFL fan offering the widest array of football information including real-time statistics, scores, injury reports and other updates. The above ...

28 November 2007
08:46 GMT

NFL Struck by Storm

This virus has changed its face so many times, that I, for one, have lost track of them. It began its spam campaign with a storm in Europe and since then it sent mails regarding many subjects out of which I can mention celebrity videos, Labor Day cards and account authentication related mails. Of course, now it has m...

10 September 2007
10:45 GMT

Black College Football: The Xperience - Racist Game or Just Aiming its Public?

Did Nerjyzed Entertainment, the producer of this title really have to name the game "Black College Football"? To some people it sure sounds like racial discrimination, but to me, the chosen name is just a way to set the company's targeted public. However we've seen most of the teen American white folks sho...

6 September 2007
04:30 GMT

NFL Sports Photographers to Be Forced to Wear Canon and Reebok Vests

Now here's a "funny" one. The NFL (National Football League) upcoming season has a surprise for all the photographers present at the event. Basically, if you want to press the shutter you'll have to wear a red vest branded with the Reebok and Canon logos. Imagine that you are a Nikon shooter wearing Nike (a...

23 July 2007
04:42 GMT

Mad Catz To Provide Customized Controllers for MLB, NBA and NFL

Mad Catz Interactive is a leading third-party video game accessory provider, but also publishes video game software, including the industry leading GameShark brand of video game enhancements. Their latest announcement concerns their renewed license agreement with Major League Baseball Properties to produce a new line...

7 June 2007
07:47 GMT

Blitz: The League Passwords and Unlockables (Xbox 360)

Blitz: The League is very similar to previous installments in the Blitz series, as it depicts a hyperviolent version of gridiron football. Like previous games in the series, first downs are awarded at 30 yards, not 10; there are eight men to a side (not 11); penalties and referees do not exist (although players are ...

27 April 2007
05:47 GMT

Does Vince Young Deserve to Be on the NFL 08 Cover?

During the Super Bowl of the last NFL season, young Tennessee Titans' Vince Young (double-threat QB on the cusp of stardom), had a pretty good game going on, helping his team go from 2-8 to 8-8, but all that was about to change in the second season. He isn't by far the best football player out there at the ...

18 April 2007
08:54 GMT

NFL Street Cheats and Hints (Xbox)

From the developers of Madden NFL comes a new brand of football where style is big. NFL Street blends fast-paced arcade action with street culture to create a unique gameplay experience in which NFL stars become larger-than-life personalities. NFL Street features seven-on-seven gameplay where players high-step, pitch...

29 March 2007
04:54 GMT

NFL Fever 2004 Cheats and Hints (Xbox)

NFL Fever is back and better than ever. The third installment of the exclusive Microsoft Game Studios football title for Xbox, NFL Fever 2004 redefines the console football gaming experience. You'll be impressed with the revamped A.I. of NFL Fever 2004, with significant offensive and defensive adjustments, anima...

29 March 2007
04:24 GMT

Madden NFL 06 Tips and Glitches (Xbox)

For the first time in 10 years, the Madden franchise has revolutionized its passing game, giving Madden NFL 06 the most groundbreaking and innovative offensive arsenal ever created. The new QB Vision Control lets you scan the field, look off defenders, and make perfect throws within your unique field of vision. Forma...

26 March 2007
08:34 GMT

NFL Street 2 Unleashed - Cheats (PSP)

Defy gravity and stretch the world of arcade football to the skies with NFL Street 2 Unleashed. NFL players are free from their real-world constraints to dominate the streets one stylin' move and one field at a time. Raise your game to the limits with up-the-wall passes, off-the-wall catches, and highlight...

15 March 2007
05:01 GMT


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