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Today EA Sports announced Madden NFL 25. The game will be released August 27th, 2013 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

In celebration of the franchise’s 25 years, Old School and New School will face off on ESPN and SportsNation platforms starting March 11th. Fans will get to vote on what players make the cover as apart of Cover Vote. A selection of 32 players from the past will be pitted against 32 of today’s modern football heroes, votes will determine who makes it through and who doesn’t make the cut. “It’s great to be back with another year of the award-winning Madden NFL Cover Vote for a brand-new game that will be the deepest and most innovative in the history of the franchise when it launches in August,” said Anthony Stevenson, Senior Director of Marketing at EA SPORTS. “This year we’re posing the ultimate question of who’s more deserving; one of the NFL’s all-time greats or one of today’s hottest players?”

“This is the third consecutive year EA SPORTS and ESPN have collaborated on the Madden NFL Cover Vote in its current iteration,” added Raphael Poplock, Vice President of Games and Partnerships for ESPN. “Each year has brought record-setting results as NFL fans come out in droves to support their favorite players and teams, and by going big this year with legends facing off against the league’s current leaders, needless to say it will be an interesting vote with much debate and discussion.”

Madden NFL 25 will feature players from across its storied history and will pit the past’s legends against today’s hottest stars.

Said Cam Weber, General Manager of American Football for EA SPORTS, “There’s no better way to celebrate and mark the culmination of 25 years of innovation than by naming this year’s game Madden NFL 25. This year’s game will push the boundaries with gameplay and feature innovations that will lay a very strong foundation for the next 25 years of this storied franchise.”

Madden is North America’s longest running officially licensed football video game franchise. From it’s beginnings in 1989 as Joe Madden’s Football, it has long held a place as the NFL’s “33rd franchise”. The franchise has sold well over 99 million units across multiple platforms and generated over $3.7 billion in net revenue.