Continuing its recent policy of focusing the cover of Tiger Woods’ game on anything but Woods, EA has announced another golfer will share the honor with him. It is also asking players to vote for which golfer it will be. The cover vote is happening on Facebook with two brackets: one for American golfers and one for European golfers. Bubba Watson, Ben Crane, Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk, Dustin Johnson, Zach Johnson, Hunter Mahan, and Rocco Mediate battle it out in the US bracket. Europeans Paul Casey, Luke Donald, Ross Fisher, Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter, Justin Rose, and Edoardo Molinari.

This week’s Nintendo Downloads update reminds us that Nintendo still doesn’t really know how to handle an online downloadable game and app store. Know what they should do? Use slow weeks like this, where only one eShop Virtual Console, one WiiWare game and two DSiWare games are available, to study Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Store to see what it should be trying to do. That won’t happen though, so let’s just trudge through this week’s rather unimpressive lineup of games in silence.

I suppose there’s one thing that may be worth turning a system on – the Liight demo. The $5 WiiWare game puzzle game Liight, involving shining the right kinds of targets with the correct color lights, now has a free demo. So you can try it before you buy it. Just do so quick, as the demo will only be available for an unspecified amount of time.

There is no Gamertell Nintendo Download pick for this week.

What’s another way to monetize games besides selling downloadable content? With a subscription plan of course. EA Sports today rolled out its EA Sports Season Ticket for $24.99 a year. EA Sports Season Ticket is a premium service that gives players of five EA Sports titles the ability to play the games for three days before they are released at retail.

EA Sports has done a great job of creating a golf sim that’s playable by gamers of all skill levels, and actually gives them incentive to play. The combination of Wii MotionPlus and the Wii Balance Board make for an engaging system that manages to be accessible and challenging if you want it to be. With or without The Masters (or Tiger Woods), this is a golf sim worth the upgrade or trying out for the first time.

EA, one of the advertisers to stick by Tiger Woods during his extramarital scandals, continues to slowly distance itself from the pro golfer.

EA has put out a press release announcing that young golfer Rhys Davies will serve as a “brand ambassador” for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters. This is on the heels of EA releasing box art for the game that doesn’t include Woods.

Sponsors began jumping off the Tiger Woods bandwagon rapidly after news of his extramarital affairs broke. One that stuck by him emphatically was EA Sports, who uses Tiger as the face of its PGA Tour golf series. After a year in which sales dipped and Tiger still hasn’t found his golf game, EA appears to be reversing course.

It’s getting to the point where pre-Black Friday sales are just as good as the actual Black Friday sales. We’ve got information on a sale Target is having from November 21-24, 2010. Some of these discounts are so good, you can probably skip Black Friday visits altogether. Don’t take my word for it. Keep reading to see if Target will have something on sale that you can cross off you gift list.

The PlayStation Blog has posted a video detailing the contents of the demo disc that will come with PlayStation Move bundles. There are 11 demos total with a wide variety of genres to choose from. Most of these demos will be available on the PlayStation Store after Move releases, but Sony isn’t slapping down an exact date for availability.

Tiger Woods’ personal life is certainly messed up, and he’s been losing a lot of sponsors and commercial deals, but he still has one thing left to cling to. EA is still going to allow him to be immortalized as a video game icon. EA’s latest press release confirms that its online PC and Mac golf simulation game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online hasn’t been canceled due to Woods’ indiscretions. EA released a statement about Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online‘s forthcoming open beta that also said the company partnered with Tiger Woods strictly for his golf skills.

The Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online press release mainly focuses on the game. It’s a browser-based affair with no downloads or add-ons required. The only thing you will need is a connection to the internet. Once you start playing, you can visit a wide variety of courses, like Pebble Beach or TPC Sawgrass, play matches against friends, customize your golfer and improve your abilities with Pro Shop items.

I have to wonder if perhaps the scandal could be contributing to the delay in officially launching Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online. EA was supposed to launch the browser-based, online game sometime in Fall 2009, and 2010′s just started…

This week’s PlayStation Store is featuring the game Heavy Weapon by PopCap Games rated E10+ on the PS3 for $9.99. This arcade-style game features the same arsenal of heavy artillery as the old PC version with 19 different missions and two difficulty levels pitting players against tanks, planes and even alien ships.