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Aug

ESPN Bowl Bound App Becomes ESPN College Football, Tempts The Wrath Of NCAA Fans Everywhere

Posted by Jeremiah Rice in News

Long-awaited updates to popular apps are usually met with adulation, but ESPN's college football app may be an exception. The old Bowl Bound app is now the more generically titled ESPN College Football, with a few new bells and whistles added into the mix. ESPN news for all Bowl Championship Series teams is complemented by video clips that promise to be constantly updated, and users can save their favorite teams for quick and easy access to news and live scores.

And here's where the trouble starts. In order to access your favorite teams, you'll need to sign into your ESPN account, or create one if you haven't already.

Aug

[New App] NFL Preseason Live For Tablet Scores One Of The Lowest Ratings In The Play Store, Wants $20 In Return For Poor-Quality Streams

Posted by Ryan Whitwam in Applications, News

Are you ready for some football?! If you have $20 and a high tolerance for irritation, the new NFL Preseason app for Android tablets is out and ready to accept your cash. The fee is actually for a subscription to the online preseason coverage, which can be watched in a web browser. Judging by the early reviews of NFL Preseason Live for Tablet, that might be where you want to watch it.

NFL Preseason Live is only for tablets at this time, but you can install it on anything 7-inches or bigger. The preseason app has the full preseason schedule as well as the full catalog of games.

Jun

ESPNsoccernet Hits The Play Store, Feeds Your Football Addiction

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

Here in the States, we call it soccer. Everywhere else, it's called football (which makes far more sense to me). Regardless of what you call it, though, there's one universal truth: like many other sports fans, soccer/football fans want to stay as up-to-date as possible about what's happening with their sport.

Enter a new app from ESPN called ESPNsoccernet that helps you do just that. It offers a pretty extensive set of features for the football/soccer-lover:

Comprehensive football coverage. The latest football news and features, as well as live scores, commentary, Gamecast, match stats, fixtures and results, league tables, player and club profiles.

Apr

SEGA's Football Manager Handheld 2012 – Manage Real Players From Training To Matchday

Posted by Liam Spradlin in Games, News

Bringing the "world's best-selling Football management game" to Android users everywhere, SEGA recently introduced Football Manager Handheld 2012 to the Play Store recently, giving players the opportunity to "take the hot-seat at any club" including leagues in 12 countries (across several continents), with full control over team management from training to tactics to live management during matchdays.

Besides offering a lengthy career mode in which players can experience a full career in a given country's league, Football Manager Handheld 2012 allows for quick play via Challenge Mode, in which players will complete "a particular short-term scenario with a clear goal to be achieved."

The game utilizes Sports Interactive's "huge global scouting network" for accurate real-life research, offering players realistic situations with actual players.

Mar

EA Releases FIFA '12 And NBA Jam To The Play Store, Lets You Get Your Sports Fix On Your Mobile

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Games, News

Here in the States, we call it soccer, which actually makes little sense. Our neighbors across the pond have a more accurate term for the game, however: football. To be honest, I'm not really sure where the crossing of terms came into play, but football in the U.S. is definitely not the same game as football in other countries. Regardless of what you call it, EA just released a new game for all who love the thought of kicking a ball into a net: FIFA 2012.

FIFA '12 brings everything you love about soccer (football) directly to your mobile device, including 22 officially licensed, playable teams and more than 15,000 players, controls schemes that let you handle your players with precision, and 360° player movement.

Jan

Samsung's Big Super Bowl Product Reveal Is A 90-Second Commercial For The Galaxy Note

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Galaxy Note (GT-N7000), News, Samsung

Yesterday afternoon, @SamsungMobileUS revealed that the company would be launching a "device so revolutionary only an ad in America's biggest game [the Super Bowl] can do it justice." Many on Twitter and across the web assumed it would be the Galaxy S III or a new tablet; while it was doubtful in light of recent rumors that it would be the SGSIII, the new tablet idea was at least feasible.

As it turns out, Samsung is "revealing" the U.S. Galaxy Note - so to the technophiles, there's nothing new to see here, really. In hindsight, it's a bit of a no-brainer: yesterday, Samsung officially announced that the Note would go on sale on February 19, and preorders would begin...

Jan

[Deal Alert] Madden NFL 2012 By EA Only $0.99 In The Android Market

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Deals, Games, News

With just weeks remaining until Super Bowl XLVI, EA decided to bring out the head coach in all of us by dropping the price of Madden NFL 12 in the Android Market to just $0.99 for a "limited time."

The game is sure to please even the most hardcore of football fans, offering features like sharp, realistic gameplay and clean graphics; a full roster of NFL teams to choose from, and multiple modes of gameplay. The fun doesn't end there, though; Madden 12 also covers everything that you'll need to make your team successful, including playbooks and stat tracking, so you make sure you have the best team possible.

Dec

[New Game] NFL Pro 2012 From Gameloft Hits The Android Market, Offers Lifelike Football Gameplay And The Full Roster Of NFL Teams

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Games, News

Gameloft has finally released its 2012 NFL title to the Android Market - NFL Pro 2012. Bringing full-on NFL gameplay to your mobile, Pro 2012 is a must-have to all you football fanatics out there.

The game features the full roster of NFL teams, along with a couple thousand legit players to choose from. You can unlock stadiums, playbooks, stat boost, and a lot more. The graphics make the gameplay as lifelike as you can expect it to be on the small screen, offering detailed animations for running, tackling, and touchdown celebrations - basically, everything that you would want from a football game.

Nov

NFL Flick Quarterback Now In The Android Market – Juke, Pass, And Flick Your Way To The Hall Of Fame

Posted by Liam Spradlin in Games, News

The creators of the popular Flick games (Flick Soccer and Flick Golf) have done it again, recently releasing NFL Flick Quarterback to the Android Market. The game combines the popular flick controls from Full Fat Productions' other games with NFL action, allowing players to "become the QB you’ve always dreamed of becoming."

Flick Quarterback offers much more than its controls and impressive graphics however. Players can choose from Playmaker and Trick Shot modes, which each offer their own unique gameplay twists. Additionally, the game offers day or night time play, as well as elemental obstacles like wind, meant to make gameplay more challenging by throwing off your passes.

Sep

Madden NFL 12 Free For Verizon Customers Oct 1st - 3rd, Insert Football Pun Here

Posted by Ron Amadeo in Applications, Deals, News

If you're the type of person who likes Madden, yet somehow managed to not purchase it four weeks into the season, I've got good news! From October 1st-3rd, Verizon customers can download Madden NFL 12 for the low, low price of "free." How you download it is a little bizarre, so listen up: You call -- that's right, call -- **MADDEN. That's "[Star] [Star] 623336", and somehow that will start the download. The instructions aren't very specific. Whoever wrote the press release decided obvious football puns were more important than clarity. The press release mentions something about "VCast Apps," so don't be surprised if you are asked to download yet another app store.