Last week, 5WG’s Shawn Drotar and Mark Fossen attended the EA Sports/Easton NHL 08 Community Day in the cozy hamlet of Burnaby, British Columbia, and received not only time with the game, but valuable one-on-one time with many of the game’s developers in an effort to learn about what might become the best sports game […]

I know you want words about NHL 08. You want impressions. You want insight.
Shawn and I will be along later in the day to provide just that.
Until then, though, here’s a NHL 08 Easton Community Event exclusive video.

Shawn and I are still up in Vancouver, and at the moment are entering something like our tenth hour with NHL 08. We’ll be posting details and impressions on Monday (and another audiovisual treat over the weekend if technology permits), but here are 10 new screenshots exclusive to the Community Event.
(Can’t wait until Monday? Let’s […]

Mark and I are traveling to Vancouver today, where we’ll take part in NHL 08’s “Community Day” on Friday in nearby Burnaby.
Naturally, we’ll let you know about everything we hear and see about the game as soon as possible… assuming we can still type, of course.
You see, on Friday morning, we’re supposed to play hockey. […]

Madison Avenue loves gamers.
They know they have money to spend on games, and they know they’ll spend hours looking at their TV screen playing those games instead of watching the latest run-of-the-mill doctor/lawyer/cop show. So what’s a poor marketer to do? The latest answer:

Electronic Arts has added branded Xbox 360 Achievements to NCAA Football 08, […]

OK, so that’s not the best slogan available - but it’s an accurate one. Take that, Bon Jovi!
After passing the nine-million mark for subscribers, if World of Warcraft’s population were a state, it would rank as the United States’ ninth-largest, according to the most recent census numbers:

California: 33,871,648
Texas: 20,851,820
New York: 18,976,457
Florida: 15,982,378
Illinois: 12,419,293
Pennsylvania: 12,281,054
Ohio: 11,353,140
Michigan: […]