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.

Thanks for following us the last couple of days as we've tracked a number of the incoming NFL rookies and their ratings in Madden NFL 10.   Now that we're at the end of the last round of this year's Draft, it's time to release all of the rookie ratings created thus far by our ratings guru Donny Moore.  The file below has all of the ratings for every rookie currently created in Madden NFL 10.  

If you want to share your thoughts about any of the ratings in the file, feel free to post your thoughts in the comments below or reach out to Donny Moore or myself on twitter.  Enjoy!

CLICK HERE to download the ratings Excel file.

Throughout the first day of the NFL Draft, we've been talking to fans on Twitter as they followed the Madden NFL 10 Draft Experience.  See what fans had to say about all of the coverage, how players are rated in Madden NFL 10, and which rookies they are most looking forward to playing with when Madden is in stores August 14th.