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Are You Ready for Some Faceball? EA Launches 'Madden NFL' for Facebook

by Amar Toor on September 1, 2010 at 11:50 AM

Footbook On the heels of its wildly popular, Facebook soccer game 'FIFA Superstars,' EA has now decided to bring everyone's favorite video game to the world's most popular social network. As USA Today reports, the game maker recently launched a new Facebook version of its famed NFL game, entitled 'Madden NFL Superstars.' Much like 'FIFA Superstars,' which EA launched before the World Cup, the company's free-to-play, Facebook-ified Madden game allows players to create their own teams, and play against their friends and real NFL lineups.

"The truth is there are 60-some million NFL fans out there and we don't sell Madden NFL (on console video game systems) to all of them," says Mike Taramykin, vice president of EA Sports. "The goal is really to expand the franchise to new platforms in hopes of reaching football fans and NFL fans wherever they may want to be entertained as opposed to where we happen to be entertaining people at the moment."

Considering the fact that EA managed to attract over 4 million players with something as boring as soccer [Ed. Note: Hey! That's my sport!], it's not a stretch to imagine that it'd be able to get a sizable number of 'Madden' diehards onboard. Or, at the very least, it should be able to wean people off of those inane farming "games."

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