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Best Buy laptop deals for January Best air purifiers at CES Best video game deals for January Is it worth it? The best webcams for Mac continued to grow faster in than any Windows brand. Some industry insiders speculate the exclusive deal was embraced by the NFL after it saw Take-Two lower the price of its 2K5 product earlier this year.

No licensor likes to see a price war being fought with its brand value at stake. At the same time, exclusive licenses in the sports world are more the norm than nonexclusive licenses. We remain committed to continued diversification of our product portfolio, including sports. Even before the news was released, trading of EA stock had its value spiking north.

For more information on all things athletic-game-related, visit GameSpot's new Sports Games section. That may be because customers are delaying their purchases until the new Xbox One and PlayStation 4 go on sale in November. Related story: 'Call of Duty Ghosts' is Activision's next billion dollar video game.

On July 23, a U. District Court jury ruled in favor of Robin Antonick, one of the original designers and developers on Madden, who sued EA for royalties not paid him. Despite the legal distractions, Madden NFL 25 has been receiving glowing reviews from the press with an 81 aggregate score on Metacritic.

EA would be able to maintain the exclusive NFL license in the proposed settlement, meaning the Madden series would be set to remain one of the bestselling games of every year and a major cash cow for EA. But lawyers for the class-action seem satisfied with the outcome nonetheless. This case is separate from another class-action lawsuit filed by former NCAA student athletes over compensation for the use of their names and likenesses in EA's games.