
I recently had the misfortune of needing to send my PS3 into Sony for servicing. Something was wrong with the graphics card and was creating very unpleasant graphical artifacts and texture issues on most of my games. EA Sports games such as Madden and NCAA were very badly affected. Fallout New Vegas would sometimes go completely black on me. Metal Gear Solid 4 saw some very irritating texture pop-ins and coloration issues. Even the Back to the Future downloadable game from the PSN was suffering from similar problems...
Sony's customer service is horrible. Not the service. Just the policies, the way that the hardware is configured, and the lack of respect that the whole process has for the consumer. I don't understand how they are still in business when repairing a $600 piece of hardware goes something like this:
"Thank you for calling Sony Customer Support. Oh, you're PS3 broke. Well that's too bad. Go ahead and back up your hard drive even though none of it can be restored onto a replacement system anyway. Pay us $130. And then send the system in. If we feel like fixing it, we will. But we probably won't, cuz that would require, like, you know, work. So we'll send you a replacement and inconvenience you even more by making it impossible for you to restore your save files and downloadable content. Thank you and have a nice day. Or a shitty day. Whatever."
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Tags:PS3, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, Sony, horror, Back to the Future, EA Sports, Madden NFL, NCAA Football, ESPN NFL 2K5, Demon's Souls

Yesterday, I began an analsyis of the recently-released Madden NFL 12 teaser trailer. In it, I discussed four of the features showcased in the trailer (or at least, what I thought the features would be). My general conclusion in that section was that the only feature of any note is what appears to be a new player attribute and profiling system. Hopefully, the rest of the new features will provide something more interesting.
- Section 5: Something about field goals...
- Section 6: Probably not a blimp camera
- Section 7: Custom playbooks are back
- Section 8: Surprise onside kicks
- Section 9: Hot and cold streaks
- Section 10: 3-D grass
- Conclusion, and how EA can earn my money this year
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Tags:Madden NFL 12, Madden NFL, EA, EA Sports, football, NFL, Backbreaker, NCAA Football, preview, sports, DA Bears
Earlier today, EA released the first screenshot for NCAA Football 2012 through the ESPN website.
In addition to giving us the screenshot (and our first taste of the new game), EA also promised that they would break down the new features that the screenshot is supposed to showcase.
But just because EA is going to spoil all the answers to the puzzle they've given us, doesn't mean we can't dissect this little gem ourselves:
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