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IGN simulates Super Bowl XLVII with Madden NFL 13: Baltimore Ravens VS. San Francisco 49ers. Which team will win?

A portion of a Nintendo Life review...

Suffice it to say, if you're a Madden NFL fan and you own a Wii U, this is definitely a title you're going to want to at least consider adding to your game library.

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#madden Madden NFL 13 says the Baltimore Ravens will claim their second Super Bowl championship on Sunday, 27-24, handing San Francisco its first defeat in six visits to the NFL's title game.  More »

#madden Pat Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals standout defensive back who forsook a $3 million contract to enlist in the Army in 2002, and who was killed by friendly fire in an operation in Afghanistan, returns to the football field as a special offering within Madden NFL 13's Ultimate Team mode. Tillman's appearance in the game is supported by the foundation established in his name. More »

#madden Nothing deleted from Twitter is ever deleted on time, and sometime between Monday and Tuesday, a disillusioned former Madden developer figured that out. By then, his unvarnished rant tossed a dripping slab of red meat to Madden's many Internet enemies, and it didn't win the author much support from his old friends. More »

#madden An update to Madden NFL 13 rolling out tomorrow will deliver something called "Draft Duels" to Madden Ultimate Team, the game's hybrid fantasy team/card collecting mode. In it, players will open packs of cards, construct a team from their holdings—and their opponent's—and then duke it out in a standard multiplayer game. More »

A portion of a Shacknews review...

The Wii U's incarnation of the annual football series, with its well thought-out Game Pad implementation, is more like Robert Griffin III--an exciting rookie with the potential to become something great as quickly as next year.

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A portion of a Kotaku review...

Fixing the frameskip, making greater use of the GamePad—especially in team management menus—and the inclusion of the physics engine are mandatory come August 2013. The absence of any of those will result in lower marks for Madden 14 on Wii U than on its older high-definition rivals.

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A portion of an NWR review...

...Madden NFL 13 on Wii U shows the potential for football games on the system. The GamePad could be something special for sports games, giving you that extra layer of control and depth, while also offering Off-TV Play. Madden on Wii U isn’t superlative this year, but I would keep an eye on this series; the potential is there, it just hasn’t been fully tapped.

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#madden When it released, Madden NFL 13's new "Connected Careers" mode forbade the editing of any player. This was somewhat understandable, as the roster is used by others online and changes can affect the outcomes of games elsewhere in your league. It was still rather Draconian, as it meant you could not edit your own created player, so if you happened to give him a helmet with no facemask, well, that's what he was wearing until he went into Canton. More »

Can the Ravens' injury-plagued defense contain the Texan's explosive ground attack? Bobbya breaks down the AFC's only two teams with a record over .500.

Is the 49ers' unshakable defense enough to contain the Giants' explosive offense? Bobbya breaks down these NFC rivals as SF tries to get revenge for 2012's NFC Championship.

#madden The good-news/bad-news tradeoff is that Madden NFL 13 is getting a ton of significant fixes and capabilities with a patch rolling out on Tuesday. Of course, consumers are right to say these features should have been in the game all along. More »

Watch the Falcons launch an aerial assault against the Redskins and their sensational rookie, RG3. It's all-out war between two offensive juggernauts.

Can't wait for Sunday Night Football? Well, watch it today instead. Bobbya pits the Giants against the Eagles in a down-to-the-wire showdown. Click to find out what happens.

#rumor EA Sports plans to include real-life NFL referees in Madden NFL 14, according to two different sources close to the NFL Referees Association. One of them said the officials' facial features have been scanned into the game, with an eye toward making their calls and explanations a part of the broadcast presentation for next year's game. More »

Amazon's Gold Box is all games once again, offering a series of time-limited deals alongside a special all-day $39.99 sale on Madden NFL 13. Find the clues for each "Lightning Deal" after the break.

Much can change in four years, but apparently President Barack Obama's campaign avenues haven't. For his upcoming campaign towards a second term as President of the United States, Obama will once again advertise through video games - specifically, EA games.

Madden NFL 13 across various consoles and other undisclosed EA games are on deck to dish out Obama ads, including EA's casual games portal Pogo and EA Mobile games like Tetris, Scrabble and Battleship. These ads will show up for gamers in Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and Virginia.

Four years ago, Obama paid $44,500 for in-game advertising in Burnout Paradise and other games. You can see some mock-ups in our gallery below.

#madden A server-side update has returned the fantasy-draft option to Madden NFL under its new Connected Careers mode, but only for online leagues. Still, anyone present in a league before it begins is able to participate in a draft of all of the NFL's active talent, remaking and rebalancing each of the NFL's 32 franchises. More »

#breaking The official Twitter feed for Madden NFL 13 just announced that fantasy drafts—a mainstay feature of the game's franchise mode for nearly a decade—will return to the game via patch, tomorrow. More »

#wiiu The basic pass routes in American football are, off the top of my head, the post, the slant, the square-out, the streak, the hook and the wheel. Here, Kotaku's Jason Schreier introduces us to the Curli-Cue, the Zag-Zig-Zag, the One-Oar-In-the-Water and the Field Sobriety Test, all of which were improvised routes using the touchscreen feature of the Wii U GamePad, and Madden NFL 13 for Wii U. More »

Can't wait for Monday Night Football? Well, watch it today instead. Bobbya pits the Broncos against the Falcons in an offensive super showdown. Someone's offense is about to get shut down, so click to find out what happens.

#madden Through the first week of play in real life of the NFL, some 81.5 million games have been played in Madden NFL, according to this video commissioned by EA Sports. The teams taken online most so far are the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles (rated No. 5 and No. 3, respectively, as "teams to help you win" in the game's official Prima Guide.) More »

#stickjockey No one I know seriously plays "Mascot Mashup" in NCAA Football, except for maybe the six-year-old son of a good friend from Oregon, who enjoys slamming the "GoDucks" into 11 of his dad's Stanford Trees. About the most I ever hear about the mode each year from EA Sports is when a developer jokes that they're pouring a lot of time into "Mascot Mashup 2.0." More »

#madden The NFL is kicking off (checks watch) oh, about nowish. Time for a new season of wins and losses, touchdowns and fumbles, and nonstop clichés from analysts and commentators. One such word is "clutch," a word that seems to define a top performer in a pinch, but has no real objective measure. More »

#madden Ten days ago, Marcus Thomas decided he'd had enough of being identified by some other Marcus Thomas' mugshot in Madden NFL and took to Twitter to complain about it. Two days later, he was released by the New York Giants. More »

This year's annual EA Sports installment Madden NFL 13 has shown a greater awareness for penetrating the line and sacking your wallet. That's football speak for: Madden NFL 13 sold a lot in its first week - 1.65 million copies, to be exact - and set a launch week sales record for the franchise this console generation.

That's an eight percent increase over Madden NFL 12's launch, which moved 1.4 million copies in its first week. Not only that, but EA reports Madden NFL 13 had way more online-connected gamers over the previous installment - over 1.4 million players jumped online and compared to last year's game; 31 percent more online games were played in that launch week span.