Thud. That was the sound the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first attempt at a video hitting the floor back in 2004. UFC’s Sudden Impact game was roundly booed and threatened to harm the company’s chances at legitimacy with any game in the future. Dana White, President of UFC, admitted as much in a recent interview:
“Everyone knows […]

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Well, they finally did it. Electronic Arts has integrated it’s popular Madden football video game franchise with a fantasy football league and information website. It makes a lot of sense, after all. When you have the wildly popular following that Madden has garnered, you have ready audience of fanatic football fans, and yes, likely fantasy […]

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Here are some interesting stories for Tuesday, June 17, 2008:

EA SPORTS Fantasy Football launches new website with football applications - Seems like an exciting way to bring fantasy football to the convergence of online and video game applications!

Followup: NBC Olympics and Fanball Team Up for Olympic Quick Pick - Here’s some additional information on what […]

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Happy Thursday everyone! Here are some stories we’re following for you:

Celebrity gawkers in a league of their own - Fantasy sports has been the inspiration for fantasy celebrity leagues.

In-Game Ads Added To Sony PS3 - Check out this statistic: In-game ads will produce $800 million in sales by 2012!

Game 5 of Stanley Cup final draws […]

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Interesting stories we’re following for you on Wednesday, June 4, 2008:

Electronic Arts buys ThreeSF for undisclosed sum - The video game company makes an interesting move and acquires a social network, we’ll find out more about this deal soon.

NBA Finals By the Numbers - These numbers show the extent of the reach basketball has in […]

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Here are some stories we’re following for you on Thursday, May 29, 2008:

NFL Rookies Under the Spotlight - Event brings NFL rookies to Los Angeles, for a trading card photo shoot.

RotoHog.com Names Michael Stark New CTO - Seems like the fantasy sports league site is making some moves to bolster it’s management team.

Ubisoft to release […]

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The Nintendo Wii continues to push the barriers as far as gameplay goes with sports video games.  The Wii Fit has finally hit the streets and word is that it’s pretty damn cool.  Check out the two reviews below, courtesy of IGN and Gamespot.  One day virtual sports is going to be a reality and […]

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Stories of interest for Friday, May 23, 2008:

Survey Says: Without Sports Fans, Game Industry Could Fail - More interesting analysis from the CEA report.

Fantasy Sports Fans Like Buying Consumer Electronics, too (via RotoNation) - Not surprising stuff here, but yet more data about how fans are driving the purchase and development of consumer electronics.

Indy 500: […]

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Some sporty stories for today, Wednesday, May 21, 2008:

Sports fans drive consumer electronics market - No arguing with the numbers here - sports fans own more consumer electronic goods than anyone else.
RotoHog.com Names Kelly Perdew New CEO - “The Apprentice” winner makes good with fantasy sports website.

New Euro Football Manager game from Jadestone launched by […]

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Some interesting stories we’re following on Wednesday, May 8th:

Horse racing fantasy game in development - Montana is one of four states that allows fantasy betting on horse racing, demonstrating the growing gulf between state and federal legislation on fantasy sports betting.

The Elephants in the Room - Interesting story that states that traditional sports writers […]

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