Madden Online Details

Gamespot has an article detailing some of the feature’s in EA’s Madden Football Online. Here’s a little morcel:

As soon as you log in to Madden’s online area, you’ll see a customizable live ticker, which can communicate real-life sports scores to you and give you updates on what your online friends are up to. You’ll be able to set up tournaments either in the game itself or on your PC through a Web-based interface. Tournament alerts and messages from other players can be sent your way via an upgraded EA messenger function, which can be set to forward text messages to you via e-mail or to your cell phone via SMS when you’re not online.

Aside from the standard head-to-head gameplay, EA is introducing online minigames to all of its sports games this year…