We should just start asking the staff at EA Sports what’s going to happen with our favorite players.

While much of the sports world was doing the annual “Will He or Won’t He Play?” dance with Brett Favre, EA never removed him from the Vikings roster in Madden 11. The game launched before Favre’s official return, forcing EA to make a definitive call before releasing the game.

Call it the Wayward Quarterback Roster update for Madden NFL 10. First Michael Vick signs with the Philadelphia Eagles just in time to make the August 19, 2009, update. Then Brett Favre ended his sort of retirement to join the Minnesota Vikings. Favre became available for Vikings fan to throw touchdowns with (or for angry Packer fans to drive into the turf) August 19, 2009, as well.

If you’re one of the people who picked up Madden ’09 recently you may have felt a little bummed out over the cover picture. As many sports fans may already know, Brett Favre has signed on with the New York Jets which posed an obvious problem for Madden’s cover art where Favre is shown in full Green Bay attire. All is not lost, though, as EA has stepped in with a solution just for this occasion.

All you have to do is go to the EA website and download a high resolution photo of Favre wearing his Jets uniform. The photos are available for…

USAToday.com upheld its journalistic pedigree for hard-hitting, mildly informative reheats of week-old news in grade school vernacular for people who don’t like to read earlier this week (August 13th, 2007) when they proudly published the lukewarm-off-the-press news that a lot of people play video games and now we’re wondering if it could possibly be a spectator sport:

With nearly 100 million people playing video games in the USA, the pursuit has gone mainstream. Now Hollywood and other promoters are testing whether we’re willing to watch other people play.

This summer, game contests are airing on TV and …