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ESPN Video Games' Jon Robinson covers some of the presentation changes coming to NCAA Football 14.

Among the highlights of his preview:

• 'Zombie Nation' & 'Seven Nation Army' crowd chants will be in the game
• Main focus of presentation: Make it clean and 'get you moving'
• Dynamic loading screens
• Quicker pre-game intro with music video
• Commentary focus on drive summaries
• New stadiums for ODU, GA State, South Alabama plus 'every neutral site game'
• Team specific gloves plus hand poses

Continue on to read an excerpt of the preview from ESPN Video Games and then share your thoughts with the community. ...

Over the past week, EA SPORTS has posted additional NCAA Football 14 screenshots featuring Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Miami, Texas, Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia. Continue on to view the screenshots and share your thoughts in the comments below.

Make sure to keep up with all of the latest game info with our NCAA Football 14 News & Information Central. ...

It’s Episode 19 of the Press Row Podcast, a special Press Row One-on-One with NCAA Football 14 producer Ben Haumiller (@benhaumiller) and host Richard Grisham (@richgrisham). They talk all about the new physics engine in the game, the newest gameplay updates coming this fall, as well as some of the cool things and challenges that come to designing football games for a staggering variety of gamer.

Click here to listen to the show, then share your thoughts with the TGT community. Some notes from the show are available after the jump. ...

EA SPORTS has posted an official blog breaking down the gameplay improvements coming to NCAA Football 14, including the Force Impact System and running game improvements.

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

Machinima Sports has posted a brief interview with NCAA Football Producer Ben Haumiller in which some new gameplay elements are discussed. Continue on to watch the video and then share your thoughts with the community. ...

EA SPORTS has posted the full list of NCAA Football 14 pre-order offers and all of them tie into the new NCAA Football Ultimate Team feature.

Amazon (PS3|360) - Exclusive NCAA Football Ultimate Team PAC 12 Conference Pack including key PAC 12 players and bonus game extension
GameStop (PS3|360) - Exclusive NCAA Football Ultimate Team SEC Conference Pack including key SEC players and bonus game extension
Best Buy (PS3|360) - Exclusive NCAA Football Ultimate Team Big 10 Conference Pack including key Big 10 players and bonus game extension
Wal-Mart (PS3|360) - Exclusive NCAA Football Ultimate Team Big 12 Conference Pack including key Big 12 players and bonus game extension
Target (PS3|360) - Exclusive NCAA Football Ultimate Team ACC Conference Pack including key ACC players and bonus game extension
Origin (PS3|360) - Exclusive NCAA Football Ultimate Team Big East American Athletic Conference Pack including key Big East American Athletic Conference players and bonus game extension

All offers are good through July 8. Full details on NCAA Football Ultimate Team will be revealed on May 15. ...

You can load all the physics, all the momentum, all the jukes and trucks and fakes you want into running the football in a video game, but it all unravels when the right guard just watches as a free linebacker strolls into the backfield and cleans your transmission. No matter how good the rest of NCAA Football has been, this has always been its worst controller-throwing moment, for years.

Well, yes, this is the time of the year when we talk about what the next edition of the game will deliver, and the time of the year when we get promises that something has been fixed. Last April, it was the end of robo-linebackers and "suction blocking." This year Larry Richart, a producer on EA Sports' football gameplay team, vows they have fixed or at least substantially improved blocking and offensive line play.

How? They put a real-life lineman on the job.

Click here to read the full preview from Kotaku and then come back here to share your thoughts with the TGT community. ...

Every year, the designers of the NCAA Football franchise at EA Tiburon set out to make a game that simulates football — just like its more popular older brother, the Madden NFL series — except they have to differentiate their game by ensuring that it plays like college football instead of pro football.

Part of that differentiation is, in a sense, forced on the NCAA Football developers. These days, publisher Electronic Arts launches Madden seven weeks after it releases NCAA Football — the college football title typically comes out in early July, while Madden launches at the end of August. While the games are developed on an annual cycle that means Madden doesn't get extra development time, per se, innovations often come to Madden first.

We don't know yet what the Madden team has in store for Madden NFL 25, but this year's entry in the NCAA Football series, NCAA Football 14, is catching up in a few key respects when it comes to gameplay.

Follow the link to read Polygon's full preview. ...

Last year, NCAA overhauled its passing game. The gameplay makeover continues in NCAA Football 14, due out in July for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The first reveal for the game details developer EA Tiburon's focus on improving Madden's Infinity Engine, as well as some unique college football additions.

EA Tiburon decided not to integrate the Infinity Engine into NCAA 13. The physics engine used in Madden NFL 13 (which came out months after NCAA 13) aimed to realistically replicate hits to multiple parts of the body, but ended up being inconsistent and unsatisfactory. With the benefit of more time with the engine, EA Tiburon feels the engine has moved forward and is capable of more nuances. Impacts such as stiff arms, hit stick tackles, and dive tackles now jar the ball carrier appropriately. The team says it is also cleaning up the engine's previous failings (such as players flopping around on the ground due to minor contact) and not just heaping on features it can't handle. We'll have to wait until we get our hands on a build of the game before we can get a judge on how the engine is progressing.

Follow the link to read Game Informer's complete preview. ...