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Season 4 is officially underway and opens with a preseason game with Salt Lake City hosting the FSJ Huskies. After a long offseason and some good trades, draft picks and the loss of 2 teams we expect this to be a very competive, but fun season.
Will the Halifax Reapers go for a repeat this season? Will the Rage make the finals again? Or will we see some newcomers challenging for the cup. Only time will tell.
Each team has 5 games during the 15 game pre-season schedule. Will this be an insight to how the regualr season will go or will one of the top preseason teams drift to the bottom of the pack.
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In a time where games are being shaved from the EA portfolio comes news that a new EA Sports game is on the horizon. As tweeted this evening by an EA Canada community manager a new title will be announced in January. So the speculation begins as to what that game will be.
My gut feeling on this is that it will be a WWE offering. The license between the WWE and THQ had its deadline for notice of renewal pass. Once that happened the WWE extended that deadline to December 31st. It is possible THQ informed WWE they did not intend to continue the license at which point EA could have jumped in and made an offer. The announcement coming in January certainly would make sense given the framing of the circumstances. WWE brings an established fan base and wouldn’t be seen as too much of a risk even in these difficult economic times.
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