Archive for the ‘Site News’ Category
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Off to the Madden Community Event
I'm heading out now to make the long journey to the Tiburon Studio in Orlando for the Madden 08 Community Event. I'll be checking in whenever I can such as stops in airports and when I'm at the hotel. So the site will continue to be updated at various times each day. You can also check the forum where I'll drop notes on my current status throughout. Check the site for the first report from the event which should include solid impressions, pics, and videos very lat...
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Pastapadre.com welcomes a new addition
I would like to announce a new addition to the site! Over the last several weeks the most common suggestion I received was to add a forum. Well now the pastapadre forum is up and running! **Picture above represents actual age of many forum posters** Please consider that the forum is still a work in progress. For example you'll see there is no unique skin for it yet. But I figured I would roll it out now anyway. Feel free to register and start posting! The forum will always be more of a supp...
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Madden Community Event set for August 9th
The Madden 08 Community Event will officially take place August 8-10th at the Tiburon studio in Orlando. The time with the game will be spent on Thursday the 9th as the other two are travel days. For myself that accounts for a big chunk of time considering there couldn't be much further of a flight within the contiguous states than Seattle to Orlando while connecting through California. As opposed to past community events where there was more significant amount of time before the...
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Highlight clip contest winner
Congrats to the winner of the NCAA Football 08 highlight clip contest. Clip #2 came through in a narrow victory over #1. The Penn State INT to forced fumble to return for TD was unique enough to beat out the great Miami TD run. He'll have the choice between NBA Street: Homecourt on the PS3 or Def Jam: Icon on the 360. Check back to the site in the near future for another contest! ...
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Suggestions for the site?
Before the flow of news that will be coming out of E3 hits and before any demos drop, I figured it would be a good time to ask for some feedback on the site and suggestions on things to improve or add. The site has been growing at an extraordinary rate, so I'd really like to hear what everyone would like to see from it. I'm always open to doing things to improve it, and I work towards providing the best collection of news and content out there. But there is always more that can be done/...
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Madden Community Day Update
Last week I wrote about the upcoming Madden Community Day event which was slated for next week. Unfortunately today I was informed that Madden will not be available and it is being turned into an NCAA Football centric event that includes attending the ESPYs. Putting the news about no Madden aside, this is a nice gesture of appreciation to the NCAA Football community and will essentially represent a "kickoff" celebration for the game being less than seven days before its release. The n...
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Upcoming Madden 08 Community Event
Next week brings the annual Madden community event, in which a handful of community leaders get an opportunity to spend time with Madden 08. Unfortunately we will not be joined in person by the producers however we will be given an opportunity to submit any questions to them after. This year it will be taking place in Los Angeles and runs from the 10th-13th with the Madden gameplay session taking place on the 12th. As always, I'm open to taking any suggestions of what to look for ...
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Checking in from NY: Day 1
Traveling in I arrived early in the AM with the only thing scheduled for the day being the EA Sports NBA Live party in the evening. There we were joined by members of the press, Kevin Durant and Gilbert Arenas, as well as other players. There were a couple stations with NBA Live however we spent minimal time with it since we'll have six hours with it on Wednesday. I should be able to put up my first impressions of the game and the input we made with the producers late in the evening/early ...
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Upcoming NBA Live 08 community day
Next week I will be headed out to New York for the NBA Live community event. Amongst other festivities (such as attending the NBA Draft) I will get to spend some a good amount of time playing NBA Live 08. This is a pretty unique opportunity to get significant time in with the game this early in the development cycle. On the positive side of that, it's early enough that feedback could be taken into consideration. Generally community days are held closer to release time and things are set...
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First ever PadreCast
I have uploaded the first edition of the PadreCast. You can listen to it with the player below, download it from the link provided below, or listen with the player in the sidebar of the site. This is basically just a rough first shot at it. In PadreCast #1 I recap the news of the very busy last week and drop in my thoughts on some of it. In the future the PadreCasts can be much more substantial. That is if people enjoy it or would like for me to continue doing them. If not, it didn't hu...
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