Archive for the ‘NCAA Football’ Category
  • Press Row Podcast: EA Sports College Football Pushed to 2024
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    Posted November 24th, 2022 at 11:03 am No Comments »
    The wait for a fully licensed college football video game will have been 11 years should EA Sports College Football 25 release as now scheduled. Rich and Bryan discuss the return being pushed back from summer 2023 to 2024. Why it happened and what the first game back could benefit from the extra year as EA juggles extensive legal and development challenges. Check out the show through Apple Podcasts for iOS or on any of the popular podcast platforms including Spotify! Subscribe and give...
  • The return of EA Sports College Football will now happen July 2024
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    Posted November 22nd, 2022 at 12:45 pm No Comments »
    EA Sports' initial pitch to licensors regarding the launch of a new college football gaming franchise targeted release in July 2023. It's disappointing then to get word today that the first game in the new series will instead release in 2024. That shouldn't come as a surprise however given the scope of the project. In the initial news post about its return and in several podcasts and tweets in the years since I cautioned this was not only a possible scenario but a more likely one than hit...
  • Press Row Podcast: College Football is Back!
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    Posted February 3rd, 2021 at 7:00 am No Comments »
    EA Sports today announced that college football will be making a return to their portfolio of sports games. So that begs the questions like when will it arrive? What teams? What players? What history? Will there be a Dynasty Mode? Will there be Ultimate Team? Will it be a yearly release? We don't have any of those answers definitively yet - but we take our best guess at them anyway while outlining expectations going forward. Check out the podcast through Apple Podcasts for iOS, on Andr...
  • EA Sports announces return of college football
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    Posted February 2nd, 2021 at 9:15 am No Comments »
    A nearly eight year stretch with no licensed college football video games will be coming to an end in the near future. EA Sports today announced college football is making its return. (more…)...
  • Press Row Podcast: The NCAA Football dream is dead?!?!
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    Posted April 30th, 2020 at 6:00 pm No Comments »
    Is the dream of a new NCAA Football dream dead - or still very much alive? With interesting new developments happening, Bryan and Rich get together to discuss the latest implications in a story that began over a decade ago with a new episode of the Press Row Podcast! Check out the podcast through Apple Podcasts for iOS, on Android with the Stitcher app, or with Pocket Casts on iOS, Android, and Windows. The show can now also be found on Spotify! Subscribe and give the podcast five st...
  • Press Row Podcast: Life for NCAA but none for NBA Live
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    Posted October 30th, 2019 at 8:00 am No Comments »
    Two huge news stories have dropped as the NCAA appears ready to open up to college athletes profiting off their likenesses and NBA Live 20 has predictably been canceled. The the ramifications of both are discussed on a brand new Press Row Podcast. Why does the NCAA news make it more likely that EA Sports brings back NCAA Football video game and when could that happen? Why has NBA Live been canceled for the 4th time in 9 years and does it have any chance of success releasing on the next gene...
  • The barriers to the return of college video games have nearly been cleared
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    Posted October 29th, 2019 at 1:00 pm No Comments »
    When California passed a new law to allow college athletes to capitalize on their name and likeness it became an inevitability that eventually, whether through their own relenting or exhaustion of legal challenges, the NCAA would have to accept the change to the organization's way of operating going forward. More states have started to work their way through a similar process since then putting even more pressure on the them. The NCAA may have finally come to the realization that they're ...
  • California makes first move allowing college athletes to be paid for name and likeness
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    Posted September 30th, 2019 at 9:15 am No Comments »
    Today California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Fair Pay to Play Act that was previously passed unanimously by the state senate. The bill allows for college athletes to be paid by outside parties for use of their name and likeness rather than having to do with schools paying them directly. That would include the ability to sign a deal to appear in a video game. Those who think this means the return of an EA Sports college football game is now imminent will be disappointed however as the...