{"id":1629,"date":"2009-08-17T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T10:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/17\/slow-news-monday-returns\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T16:28:18","slug":"slow-news-monday-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/17\/slow-news-monday-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow news Monday returns."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Except for a glut (and I mean a serious run) of PS3 price cut and PS3 slim rumors, there is just not all that much going on today.<\/p>\n<p>So far I have enjoyed my brief time with <em>Madden 10<\/em>.  Two important points.  First, the game is improved over last year.  Second, the sliders do appear to work and provide noticeable differences when tweaked.  At least when I upped the penalty sliders, I started getting more penalties called.  This is still a work in progress, and it is much too soon to call a final review score (as if I did those any more).<\/p>\n<p>I have stayed away from <em>Madden<\/em> message boards, sites, and searches.  If there is something glaring that has been found, for now I want to be clueless.  I think it is better that way.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered <em>Madden 10<\/em> for the Wii for my son\u2019s b-day.   I am not expecting any major enhancements, but the kids like <em>Madden<\/em>, so they should be happy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except for a glut (and I mean a serious run) of PS3 price cut and PS3 slim rumors, there is just not all that much going on today. So far I have enjoyed my brief time with Madden 10. Two important points. First, the game is improved over last year. Second, the sliders do appear &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/17\/slow-news-monday-returns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slow news Monday returns.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,21,9,50],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-football","tag-madden","tag-ps3","tag-wii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}