The FIGHT NIGHT Round 4 team invites you to our XBOX 360 Community Playdate taking place on today from 3PM-8PM PST. With the recent Title Update and upcoming New Boxers/Game Modes being added to the game, the developers are hoping to get some feedback from the community along with giving our fans a chance to go toe-to-toe with some of the makers of the game.

In the studio we will have Producers Brian Hayes, Mike Mahar, Freddy Ouano, and Jeff Atienza alongside Software Engineer Fabio Zinno and Sr. QA Analyst Jazz Brousseau. Representing the gaming community and joining me on the sticks will be the following:

Platform Nation's Steven Artlip, SFX-360's Ross Furman, 360Sync's Devin Kofsky, Ve3tro's Sarkis Daglian, Maxboxing's Tyrone Kirk, Snapshot-Hockey's Mike Carter, Stick Skill's Dougie Veney, CS Nation's Shawn Zipay, The Sports Game Guy's Damon Peterson and Kevin Harley, and Robert Sporer representing Nerdiest Kids.

Feel free to add some of the gamertags to your friend's lists and make sure that you join the CoverItLive event as well to help get yourself into a fight against one of the developers or community leaders.

PLUS - If you've always wanted a shot at one of the titles, tune in to the CoverItLive event as we will be announcing a new initiative to make that happen!

Developer Gamertags

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Community Leader Gamertags

Steve519 http://platformnation.com

sfx pallidian http://SFX-360.com

DaKing240 http://360sync.com

WitchKing9 http://Ve3tro.com

darxide http://maxboxing.com

msnhockey http://snapshot-hockey.net

AirUpThere06 http://stickskills.com

SZips http://csnation.net

MPDamon http://thesportsgameguy.com

Kev5890 http://thesportsgameguy.com

HollywoodRS http://Nerdiest-Kids.com

A huge thanks goes out to the devs and to the community who took part in last week's XBOX 360 NHL 10 Community Playdate.  For nearly six hours into the evening a number of fans had a chance to play their favourite hockey game with the game makers in versus and OTP matches. 

The evening started with some early one-on-one matches to get warmed up and in order to get more players in the game, not only did we invite some hockey fansite leaders to host some games, we also jumped into some team play games which was a lot of fun.

For the recap, check out the In the Crease blog:  Community Playdate Recap

Now that the community has gotten their hands dirty with NHL 10, it's time to take your game to the next level! On Wednesday, October 28th, EA SPORTS would like to invite you to our NHL 10 XBOX 360 Community Playdate to get online and play with some of the developers of the game along with other NHL community leaders.

This will be a great opportunity for fans of the game to go one-on-one with the makers to not only show off your skills, but it's also a chance for you to provide your game feedback directly to the developers or even ask for hints and tips to improve your game.

For all the details on the Community Playdate with Live Chat, check out the news headline:  NHL 10 XBOX 360 Community Playdate

Congratulations to EA SPORTS Community Member Ninjames on winning the exclusive Nike shoes. We had a great time tonight competing and interacting with members of the community and we are looking forward to doing it again soon. For those of you who were not able to take part in tonights chat, you can view the entire chat archive here.

Now that everyone has their hands on Madden NFL 10, we thought it'd be a good time to set up a game with the devs night. For those of you not familiar with this type of event, you will have the opportunity to play a game of Madden NFL 10 with members of the dev team along with members of the EA SPORTS Community and Live Production teams.

The event will take place on Thursday, August 27, 2009 from 5-9pm EDT on the XBOX 360 and will feature several members of our team including:

- Ian Cummings (EASPORTS IanC)- Madden NFL 10 Creative Director

- Donny Moore (EASPORTS DonnyM) - Madden NFL 10 Ratings Guru

- Ryan Ferwerda (EASPORTS RyanF) - Madden NFL 10 Development Director

- Will Kinsler (Raczilla) - EA SPORTS Community Manager

- Justin Dewiel (Dewiel) - EA SPORTS Community Manager

- Eric Gray (Emantx) - EA SPORTS Broadcast Producer

- Rob Thompson (SAMamboking) - EA SPORTS Broadcast Host

- Jason Thompson (PrimetimeSA) -  EA SPORTS Broadcast Host

*Please note that each team member's gamertag is noted in parenthesis above. 

During the event, we will be holding a live chat where members of the EA SPORTS Community and Madden NFL 10 dev teams will be interacting with the community. For more details on the chat and to sign up for an email reminder, click here.

While we'd like to play a game against everyone, we realize that we are only going to play against some of you during the event so we are encouraging everyone to play games against each other and upload the highlights to www.easports.com for the rest of the community to see. We will be creating a thread in the Madden NFL forums around the event for everyone to interact as well. On our end, we plan on recording and posting a few of the games we play on the site along with a recap article so that everyone can take part in the event. This is your chance to be the first EA SPORTS Community member to beat an EA SPORTS employee in Madden NFL 10. Don't miss out!

That's not all! On Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 5pm EDT, we will open this thread up for player ratings discussion with Ratings Czar Donny Moore. We are looking for you to make ONE POST and one post only letting Donny know about the ONE PLAYER you feel should get a ratings increase in Madden NFL 10. Make sure you bring some facts to back up your argument, and keep it clean.

Did I mention that Donny is going to pick out the best post and the winner will get these shoes?

Good luck and make sure you are online and ready to go on Thursday August 27, 2009 at 5pm EDT. For those of you planning on participating, let us know and if you have any questions, feel free to post them in the Madden NFL forums or on www.easports.com.