Much like sports games, you can add in new characters, throw in some new modes and clean up the graphics a little.
For sports games like FIFA I can see the utility of the cloud as well.
With boots strapped, we can look forward to some new features, such as the option to curate messages that are published (such as during live events) plus tweets with interactive features like polls during live sports games.
Currently available on the Conquest, Glory and Liberty, these bars feature multiple Xbox 360 kiosks for gaming on all of the EA Sports games like Madden NFL 13, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, FIFA Soccer 13, NHL 13 and NCAA Football 13.
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Lastly, as I look at the sports program for the 2016 Rio Games, I see sports like archery, badminton, canoe, and table tennis.
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Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Namco Bandai, Majesco and other big game makers have released successful exercise and fitness games like EA Sports Active 2.0, Your Shape Fitness Evolved, and Zumba Fitness have attracted more females to gaming and also helped boyfriends and husbands at least try to stay in shape.
Like the endless stream of Call of Duty games, each new iteration of these sports games feels a lot more like an update than it does a new release.
Men spend about five more hours per week in leisure activities like watching TV, playing games and sports, and others.
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Look at brands like Gatorade that is ubiquitous in sports events to video games featuring sports events.
"They've come clean, they've disqualified them straightaway, they've done the good thing, because sports like badminton rely on being in the Olympic Games, " he said.
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Plus, what if you decided to have a man-party with your man-friends, and you were planning to watch man-sports and maybe play man-games like "tickle time" and RISK?
Bringing up the rear is Electronic Arts, maker of the popular EA Sports games, as well as many non-sports titles like The Simms and Battlefield.
Fans simply choose to watch other games, other sports, or, in a city like San Diego, they go enjoy the millions of other things their city has to offer.
And they like to play the WWE video games, along with hit games like Call of Duty and God of War. 2K Sports is working closely with current and former WWE greats, just as THQ did, to bring the past, present and future of pro wrestling together using the latest video game technology.
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What usually remains in the third tier is a few football and basketball games, plus the vast majority of non-revenue sports like baseball, lacrosse and soccer.
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It isn't about the traditional forms of scorekeeping in sports things like trophies collected, points scored, bouts won, consecutive games played, or years served.
While a large company like Ticketmaster dominates the upper end of the events spectrum rock concerts and sports games Eventbrite has found that there is a business in helping smaller events plan, promote and sell tickets.
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"Social games will become less about fantasy and more about tapping into real-life trends, " predicts de Halleux The EA executive talks about the possibilities of creating more of these "online-offline loops" in social games that take advantage of big events like holidays or player interests like sports.
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Peter Moore, president of EA Sports, part of Electronic Arts, a games company, says that some gamers like to recreate what they see during live NASCAR races in video games, using online information about speed, drag, tyre pressure and so forth to recreate, in a virtual world, the real-life action.
Rather than simply putting up billboards or handing out free products at events like the X Games, for instance, they need to actually invest in the events and showcases that allow action sports to survive at a professional level.
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