Today, EA released their third quarter fiscal year 2010 results. Included in the document was a schedule for key gaming titles to be released in fiscal year 2011. All EA Sports gaming mainstays were listed except for one - NCAA Basketball 11.
Widely speculated for weeks, this all but confirms the end of the franchise known as March Madness and rebranded in 2008 with NCAA Basketball 09. While the game made significant strides in the last two years, the franchise was not able to overcome the traditionally poor sales that college basketball games receive as well as the stigma surrounding the franchise after numerous years of mediocre games.
The decision appears it may have been made during the development cycle of NCAA Basketball 10, as a television commercial was filmed in April with Kentucky head coach John Calipari that has never aired. Shortly after release, game developers were shifted to NBA Live and/or other projects and no patch was ever developed. Despite the lack of marketing and attention for the title, in just under three... [Read More]
At Community Vibes 5 today in Miami, Florida, EA Sports announced their new Game Changers Program. For more info, visit the Inside Blog.
The Game Changer Award recognizes exceptional community leaders from around the world who use their knowledge of EA SPORTS games to improve the experience and overall growth of the EA SPORTS Community. To acknowledge Game Changers' leadership and provide a platform to help support their efforts, EA SPORTS often gives Game Changers early access to EA SPORTS games, as well as the opportunity to pass on their highly targeted feedback and recommendations about product design, development, and support.
Potential Game Changers are nominated by other community members, current Game Changers, and EA SPORTS personnel who have noted their leadership and their willingness and ability to help others make the most of their EA SPORTS experience.
Game Changers are independent of EA SPORTS, with separate opinions and perspectives, and are able to represent the views of the community members with whom they engage every day.
If interested in becoming an EA SPORTS Game Changer, send your responses to the following questions to gamechangers@ea.com.
1. Why do you want to be an EA SPORTS Game Changer?
2. What would the EA SPORTS Game Changers program gain from having you as a member?
3. What would the EA SPORTS Community gain from having you as a member of the EA SPORTS Game Changers program?
4. What EA SPORTS games do you currently play?
5. Is there anything else that you'd like us to consider when reviewing your application?
Developer Russ Kiniry & the NCAA Football team continue to engage the community for feedback to help improve the game.
From Russ: During our Live Chat on Tuesday the idea of creating this forum came up. Make an area where you guys can list out any bad calls you’ve seen the CPU make while playing NCAA 10. We catch a lot of these issues during the year, but any extra help we can get would be fantastic. The more of the following information you can remember, the better chance we have of tracking down and fixing the issue.
• Teams
• Playbooks
• Quarter
• Game Clock
• Down
• Distance
• Score
• Position on the field (yard line)
• Weather
o Wind Direction/Speed for Kicking issues
• Timeouts Remaining
It’s a lot of stuff, but like I said the more info we have the easier it is for us to recreate the situation. Thanks for your help in making NCAA Football game just that much better.
-Russ
Designer NCAA Football
To leave your feedback on issues with the CPU Playcalling, leave them in this thread at the EA Forums. Please be specific like Russ asks to make it easier for the issue(s) to be addressed.
The EA SPORTS Community Team will be hosting a live chat session with NCAA Football Designer Russ Kiniry to discuss Gameplay in NCAA Football 10. The session will start Tuesday, January 26th at 4:00 pm EST.
Click here to sign up for a chat reminder and to join in the discussion Tuesday afternoon.
"We currently have around 2400 nicknames that Brad Nessler will say in-game, and we might be adding more this year. Is there a nickname that we missed that you'd like to hear him say (please keep it clean)?"
It is expected but not confirmed that EA Sports will be using different cover athletes for each version of the game, similar to the last few years. Other likely candidates include: Ndamukong Suh (Nebraska), Colt McCoy (Texas), Toby Gerhart (Stanford), and CJ Spiller (Clemson).
Who would you like to see as the NCAA Football 11 cover athlete(s)? Leave your thoughts in this thread.
Happy New Year and welcome to 2010 (yeah I'm almost 2 weeks late). Time for another topic on NCAA Football 10, one that I think we are going to get a lot of opinions on: Gameplay. There are some specific things we'd like to hear about, but really this forum is going to be for any feedback pertaining to game-play you'd like to provide.
First off I'm really interested in what you think of the differences in Madden and NCAA; mainly the changes to Game Speed and PRO-TAK.
* Do you like the game speed in Madden, NCAA, or both?
* Should PRO-TAK be something we look at for NCAA?
Secondly what about our new game-play features?
* Set-up Plays
o How often do you try and set up a play?
o Are the set-up plays effective enough?
* Game Planning
o Which do you use the most?
o Do some work too well? Or not well enough?
* Defensive Keys
o How often do you Key in on the offensive play?
o How well do you think the keys work?
I've seen a lot of the feedback about Run Middle, but please leave any comments you have.
And then just anything else you would like to add.
Leave your feedback in THIS THREAD at the EA Forums and afterwards post it here to share with the ncaaStrategies community.
Today, EA released their 
At Community Vibes 5 today in Miami, Florida, EA Sports announced their new Game Changers Program. For more info, 
Developer Russ Kiniry & the NCAA Football team continue to engage the community for feedback to help improve the game.
The EA SPORTS Community Team will be hosting a live chat session with NCAA Football Designer Russ Kiniry to discuss Gameplay in NCAA Football 10. The session will start Tuesday, January 26th at 4:00 pm EST.
Developer Adam Thompson has started a 
The Jacksonville Business Journal has confirmed the most widely assumed piece of information regarding NCAA Football 11 - former Florida quarterback 