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Last week was a busy week here at The Gaming Tailgate. With an overload of information regarding updates to both Presentation and Gameplay in this year's edition of NCAA Football, there's a good chance that you might have missed something. To help you, we've recorded a podcast to help hit the high points but as well we've compiled a full week-in-review to attempt to cover everything you need know concerning NCAA Football 12. Continue below to listen to the podcast and read the week-in-review. ...

The NCAA Football 12 development team has posted a new video giving users a behind the scenes look at how they added some of the new traditions to the game. Continue on to view the video and then share your thoughts with the community. ...

It was a full week of NCAA Football 12 information, from Mark Ingram being named cover athlete to all of the Gameplay and Presentation upgrades. Of the announced and confirmed features, which one are you most excited for? Here are the choices:

- Custom Playbooks (Note: No details known, but leaked by several media outlets and confirmed by EA SPORTS)
- Enhanced Tackle and Collision System
- Improved Zone Defenses
- User Controlled Dive Catches
- New Formations & Plays
- Improved Visuals (HDR, Dreads, Bowl Patches, 3D Grass)
- New Stadium Sound Events (Anticipation & Team Entrance)
- New & Enhanced Authentic Team Entrances

To vote, head into our forums and vote in the thread. Only registered and logged-in forum members can vote in site polls and view the poll widget on the front page, so this is a great time to make the plunge and join The Gaming Tailgate! ...

The NCAA Football 12 website has posted a new blog with developer Mike Scantlebury discussing some of the gameplay changes coming to the game. This is Part 1 of a two-part blog.

Continue on to read the full blog then share your thoughts with the community. ...

EA has posted a blog outlining the Community Events leading up to this year's NCAA Football 12. Read below and let us know what you think.

Every year we bring in community members from around the country to play the upcoming version of the NCAA Football series and provide feedback directly to the development team. Throughout the years, we continued to expand on the events by bringing in more guys earlier in the cycle, and for longer periods of time. This is of the utmost importance to us because we are always looking to incorporate fan feedback in our game to make it the greatest experience possible for our fans. This year has been the best yet!

In December of last year, I reached out to 16 community members including members of the EA SPORTS Game Changers program and community members from various fansites, Facebook, Twitter, and the EA SPORTS forums to extend invites to an upcoming community event. The guys did not know what we had in store for them, but they were all very excited and accepted right away. We told the guys to prepare all of their feedback along with what they were seeing in the community and we’d see them in January. ...

EA SPORTS has posted their second and third video this week, one highlighting Gameplay changes and the other touching more on Presentation. Continue below to watch each and let us know what you think. ...

Last week, several members of The Gaming Tailgate attended a Community Event for NCAA Football 12. While more details of that will come very soon, continue below to read a write-up from Chris Jacobs (cdj) briefly talking about some of the things we saw. In addition, we plan to go into further details in a podcast but wanted to give you a sample of what to expect. ...

As mentioned, several members from The Gaming Tailgate attended a Community Event but there with us were members of other gaming comunities including TraditionSportsOnline.com, Thrutheuprights.com, MaddenMatrix.com and others. We'll gather all of their previews so that you can get started on your preview overload. ...

The NCAA Football 12 product website has posted a new blog discussing 'The Look and Feel of College Football.' The blog recaps the Sizzle video from earlier this week but also goes into some detail on the game's new tackling and collision system.

For the serious college football video game player we’ve got new tackles for you. It’s easy to say the tackles look good in the teaser video because it’s a video that’s been edited and tweaked to look awesome. But what we’re trying to communicate in that tackling sequence is that we’ve got an enhanced collision system now where two players have more realistic points of contact between them. Players won’t “slide” or “hover” into each other before we see a block or tackle animation start up. Instead, players will make contact and THEN you’ll see them react to each other’s momentum, mass and skill ratings. Not every tackle will be a bone-rattler or a whiff, but you’ll have a different approach as a ball carrier knowing that a defender can’t arm tackle you anymore. There’s a lot more to come from NCAA Football 12 --including more about tackling that we’ve only barely touched on here, so use your imagination-- now that we’ve got all of the bulldogs, cattle and buffalo out of the way

Continue on to read the entire blog entry and then share your thoughts with the community. ...