Madden NFL 24

If you’re keeping an eye on the latest iPhone release, you’ve become accustomed to a certain cadence every summer: an announcement of a new model that looks kind of like the one you already have, but with some notable quality-of-life fixes that may or may not be splurge-worthy. You may have some complaints about your eventual purchase, as you may encounter a bug or two along the way, but you’ll be content with the minor upgrades. You’d probably prefer those changes to be bigger and industry-changing like they were years ago, but what you have now is a net positive, and that’s good too.

With the new NFL season getting underway this week, EA Sports really wants you to give Madden NFL 24 a chance. In fact, the juggernaut publisher has made the unprecedented move to give the game a free weekend – less than a month after its launch. Starting now through 10th September, you can play the entire title for free, with no limitations or restrictions.

The new NFL season got underway overnight with the Detroit Lions narrowly edging out perennial favourites the Kansas City Chiefs, but if you have no interest in an American football simulator like Madden NFL 24, you may want to sit tight for Wild Card Football, which is due out on PS5 and PS4 in October.

Gridiron glory and mechanized combat dominated the PlayStation charts in August.

Madden has a bug problem, and despite a patch that addressed several stability issues in late August and another that released on September 1st, there’s still a lot wrong with EA’s football sim – and some of it stems from last year’s release.

EA also says this year's edition of the football game saw more players in the first week versus Madden 23.

I like to think that I'm above the lure of Cool Violent Thing in Videogame these days, but when I see a lanky robot parry a nuclear shockwave with a katana as though swatting a wasp, I find myself Enthused.

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EA Sports has been in the game for over three decades now. There’s never been a game company that’s stuck around the field nearly as long, and they’ve delivered every year. Now, some would say that the releases are pretty much identical to one another, especially the Madden Football series. But the community is baffled by the deteriorating features or bizarre design choices for the annual franchise, and the players are heading to social media to vent their outrage. We can only hope to see Madden get back on track one day soon.

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I would not have a job in games media if it weren’t for Madden. From 1998 until 2009, my dad purchased every Madden and even every NCAA football once it came along. It wasn’t even a question; it was a reality. As sure as I was going to school the next day, we were getting any Madden that was released.

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