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UPDATE: The Title Update (1.04) is now available for PS3 and 360. After downloading the update and playing the game, let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

EA SPORTS has announced the next title update for NCAA Football 13 will be coming later this month. The fixes include primarily gameplay dynasty updates though also some stability fixes. Perhaps the chief complaint addressed is the annoying No Huddle that was introduced in a previous Title Update. Continue after the break for the full details.
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In an article from the Orlando Sentinel's Walter Pacheco, EA Tiburon is now utilizing new technology to aid in capturing realistic and authentic environments for NCAA Football, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and other franchises.

Developed locally, the new Focus3D scanner from FARO Technologies allows for the capture of environments while also being travel friendly. Continue on to read an excerpt of Pacheco's article on the scanner. ...

After adding school-specific chants for 20+ programs in NCAA Football 13, Kotaku's Owen Good reports that NCAA 14 will feature real crowd audio from 40 total stadiums. Last weekend, Good aided NCAA producer Ben Haumiller in recording game audio at North Carolina, Duke, and NC State.

In addition to the three North Carolina schools listed above, EA SPORTS has made known resource gathering visits this season to South Alabama, Texas A&M, and will be at Texas State this weekend.

Continue on to read an excerpt of Good's experience and to learn more about the process of adding these school specific audio details to the franchise.

UPDATE - Sunday evening, another article from Good ("Understanding Its Mobs’ Mentality Helps NCAA Football Stand Out in a Crowd") discusses how in real-life crowds sound different at each stadium and that it has yet to be reflected in NCAA Football. ...

An article from Kotaku's Owen Good echoes much of the communities feelings on the NCAA Football series... not enough changes from year to year. That is, nothing is innovative and distinguishes itself from a previous version.

As part of that article, Good reveals that shortly after launch, the NCAA 13 development team was presented with a creative debriefing asking them to guess from various screenshots from NCAA 10 through NCAA 13 which one belonged to each year. The presenter didn't receive an answer.

Continue after the break for a quick breakdown of the article as well as my thoughts. The article itself is worth a read and is linked at the bottom. ...

This past weekend, EA SPORTS visited College Station and Texas A&M University to gather team-related assets for NCAA Football 14, per tweets from TAMU Assistant Vice President of Business Development Shane Hinckley and from the TAMU Equipment Staff.

Tweets from both A&M-related accounts highlight the Yell Leaders being captured and also the A&M locker room. Based upon current in-game assets and features, it is possible - but far from confirmed - that this information could be used for pre-game cutscenes or crowd chants during gameplay in NCAA Football 14 or beyond. NCAA Football 13 saw the addition of Reveille to A&M's pre-game montage.

This marks the second known university to be visited by EA SPORTS this off-season, following a trip to South Alabama in early October. Continue on to see the tweets from Hinckley and the A&M Equipment Staff. ...

The second update to the NCAA Football 13 Uniform Store is now available. The updates include alternate uniforms for the Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame. The Nebraska and Wisconsin uniforms will be for their matchup against each other this Saturday (9/29). The Notre Dame uniform is for their Shamrock Series against Miami in Chicago on October 6th. The cost for the three uniforms is $1.99 or 160MSP.

Continue after the break to check out images. ...

NCAA Football's premier fan event, the EA SPORTS NCAA Football Challenge Tour, a mobile videogame tour with Electronic Arts Inc., kicks off today with a campus competition at San Jose State.

The Challenge Tour, which features EA SPORTS™ NCAA® Football 13, will make its way across the country from September through November stopping at 16 college campuses for videogame competitions, including San Jose State, Arizona State, the University of New Mexico, the University of Colorado, SMU, TCU, the University of Oklahoma, Kansas State, the University of Nebraska, Northern Illinois, LSU, the University of Louisville, the University of Tennessee, Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, and the University of Maryland. Winners from each campus competition will win a $1,000 prize and qualify for the championship bracket to be played online. The two semi-finalists of the online tournament will earn their spot on a trip to a post-season bowl game to compete for the national title and grand prize of $5,000.

In addition to the 16 campus competitions, the Challenge Tour will stop at nine college football gamedays, visiting all 11 Division I FBS conferences for the first time.

Continue on for the 2012 EA SPORTS NCAA Football Challenge Tour Schedule, featuring all campus competitions and gameday events. ...

As part of Patch #2, the Uniform Store was unveiled only was empty. However, users can now begin downloading updated uniforms to use in the game on both X-Box 360 & PS3. Twenty-three uniforms are included in the free pack including the Oregon uniform pictured above. Additional uniforms for Notre Dame & Michigan in the Adidas Strategy pack will cost you 80 MSP/$1 PSN.

Continue after the break for a look at each of the new uniforms.
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Courtesy al.com, EA SPORTS is visiting South Alabama this weekend as they begin prep work on adding the Jaguars to NCAA Football 14.

South Alabama may not be in the game just yet, as the EA Sports advertisement for its "NCAA Football 13'' game suggests, but EA Sports will be in Ladd-Peebles Stadium for the Jaguars' game Saturday against Nicholls State. In fact, the popular game company has been in the stadium since Thursday, collecting data, photographic and video scans and interviews for South Alabama's inclusion in the video game next year.

Due to "misinformation,'' according to site producer Ben Haumiller, the Jags were left out of this year's game, the only one of the 124 eligible Football Bowl Subdivision teams not to be included. When news reached South Alabama students and fans prior to the release of "NCAA Football 13,'' several requested the Jags be added to the game. It was too late to add USA to this year's game, but EA Sports offered to make it up to the school by providing extras for the Jags when they are added to the roster of teams in next year's game. ...