In the wake of the medical emergency suffered by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin last week, Electronic Arts said it will remove the CPR touchdown celebration from Madden NFL 23 in a future update.
The NFL is famous for its touchdown celebrations, which over the years have grown from spiking the ball to emphasize that yes indeed, points were scored, to elaborately choreographed dances that wouldn’t be out of place during mating season on the Galapagos Islands. There’s a whole Wikipedia entry dedicated to the practice, which is officially frowned on by the league but widely liked by fans.
The CPR celebration, which according to Polygon has been in Madden NFL for the past three years, is pretty straightforward as these things go. One member of the scoring team lies on the gra…
Read moreRather than going off on a tangent about how good Painkiller is (it’s really good), I will open by simply saying that Witchfire, the new shooter from The Astronauts—founded in 2012 by the co-founders of People Can Fly—is really good too, but also very different: Studio co-founder and creative director Adrian Chmielarz said in 2023 that Witchfire is “much closer to Souls” than straight-up shooters like Doom, and having played it a good bit myself, I can say that’s absolutely correct.
Witchfire has been in early access on the Epic Games Store since September 2023, and today it got its first major update, which adds a pile of new content and aims to address a couple of the biggest complaints about the game, difficulty scaling and “Calamities.”
Without getti…
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