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. 

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!

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, we are going to be running a live chat right during the playdate.

We hope you can join us for a great discussion during the Madden NFL 10 Community Playdate.  Here's a few notes for you to be aware of prior to the live chat.

First, it is a moderated chat.  Not every comment that you send in will be posted and we will certainly not have time to answer every question.  We appreciate your patience and we hope you'll be patient as we go through a very fun and energetic evening with you.

Second, have fun and play nice.  We want to have a great discussion with the Madden NFL 10 fans. Help us reach that goal.

Thanks for stopping by and we look forward to talking with you.