While perusing another major sports website (shame on us), we couldn't help but notice the
ongoing competition for the cover athlete of EA Sports NHL '13. Now down to the final 8 players,
the voting process sees a number of players compete against one another in a public vote to
determine who will grace the cover of the much lauded computer game series.
You surely have by now seen the newest commercial for promoting the upcoming release of the
ever-popular FIFA Soccer video game franchise. The commercial features athletes Landon
Donovan, Hope Solo, Steve Nash, and Tim Lincecum.
Electronic Arts Inc., (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced the launch of the "EA SPORTS™ FIFA Soccer 12
Takeover Tour," a nationwide, 40-city, six-week long program that showcases FIFA Soccer 12, the
number one selling sports videogame franchise on the planet, and PlayStation®3 (PS3™) computer
entertainment systems.
There were major fears of racism in Ukraine and Poland ahead of Euro 2012, but it turns out some
of the most egregious offenses have come from within the visiting players' own countries. Police in
England are investigating the racial abuse of Ashley Cole and Ashley Young on Twitter after the
pair failed to score in England's penalty shootout against Italy and around the same time, Italy's
best-selling sports paper, La Gazzetta dello Sport, decided to publish a cartoon depicting Mario
Balotelli as giant gorilla King Kong.
BURNABY, BC – Electronic Arts Inc. and Vancouver Whitecaps FC today announced that EA SPORTS has
become a Whitecaps FC Founding Partner and the club's Official Videogame Partner. The deal marks
EA's first partnership with a North American soccer club and places Whitecaps FC alongside
world-class European clubs like Chelsea FC, Arsenal FC, and Real [.
