Madden 08 screenshots

You can see all 30 of the new ones here.

Come on EA and Visual Concepts! Let's see some video of gameplay.

Shadowrun Achievements

click here and log into xbl for a list.

EA Playground IGN interview.

I just read the one page interview IGN conducted with Dave McCarthy of EA Canada. It game me a good read what to expect from this new title.

• Mini Games
• Wii Remote only controls
• No online multiplayer
• A good variety of games from RC racing to Tetherball
  

EA is one of the Wii's biggest third party supporters, and have done a great job at making intuitively controlled games for the system. SSX blur, Madden 07 and The Godfather: Blackhand Edition have all lived up to my very high standards in Games. Hopefully this title lives up to the previous title's standards of quality.

I am also pleased to see an original title pop up on the Wii. Most of the games found on the system are ports of ps2.

Oh man Microsoft has crossed the line

A story from Joystiq came through the feeds just now.

Apparently, Microsoft has rejected the racy 360 Queenz from appearing on Xbox Live Marketplace, and asked its pre-release users to stop using the offending theme.

Dude.

Half a boob has nothing on Rumble Roses X advanced boob physics engine.

New Splinter Cell Game

You can read all about it here.

The latest issue of Finnish video games magazine Pelaaja has revealed the next installment in the Splinter Cell series. Conviction will be developed by Ubisoft Montreal and it will be released exclusively on PC and Xbox 360.

This is the first time that Ubisoft uses the name after it filed, and had approved, two trademarks for "Splinter Cell: Conviction."

Speculation leads to rumors that NSA Director Williams will be the enemy in this fifth installment

I wish they would stop making splinter cells.

Modding Student Arrested: Update

This morning's Fort Bend Now has some additional information relating to the Chinese student arrested due to creating a FPS map of his school.

It says the board is making a political case to gain more votes in the May 12 election. The article doesn't have much gaming information, but it is an update to a previous story.

APF 2k8 More information

You can read the entire article here.

When we asked Thomas how deep the customization of the gameplay would be, he replied that the development team wants to let players define what is going to make their squad a success, and that includes practically every aspect of the game. Gamers will have the opportunity to edit team names, player uniforms and even the cities that their teams will be able to play in. If players don't feel like tweaking a team at all, they can simply select one of the pre-built squads and leap into the game. As for the teams, Thomas mentioned that the squads will be comprised of a mix between legendary athletes that you choose and fictional pro players, although he didn't mention what the specific balance would be on a roster.

Balls. I was hoping there wouldn't be any fictional players. Oh well. Stay tuned for screenshots and trailers later on tonight. Visual Concepts did not reveal what the online experience entails.

Another Article here, on the sports side of the IGN network, asks Jerry Rice about the draft and the game.

"You got a phenom like Calvin Johnson, a freak of nature. He can run a 4.3, he's 6-4, about 240, and that's amazing. The records can be broken, but whoever is going to take these one, whether it's Calvin or someone else, they are going to have to sacrifice, they are going to have to work their butt off to try and make it. Until then, you'll just have to settle for me in this game. Just make sure you draft me with your first pick. From what I've heard, I'm the most dominant player in the game, and that's just the way I like it."

edit: 8:00 pm

Gamespot has an article up. I like this information.

"There are no set teams if you don't want them," Thomas said. At one point in the trailer, for example, it seemed like Elway and Barry Sanders were playing for the same team. And while Thomas said you can play with a preset team in the game's season mode, the focus of the game will be on building a team from the ground up and then putting your dream team up against all comers, whether in the single player game, or via offline or online multiplayer. Just how you will go about building that team, what kind of restrictions you'll have, what players will be available from the get-go, and how you will go about recruiting the best players of all time--well, we don't know yet. All we know is that the focus will be on creating a team of incredible talent and then going out and decimating the competition.