After 64 players, seven weeks and nearly 20 million votes, the fans chose Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson, a 6th seed, as the Madden NFL 13 cover athlete live in Times Square during ESPN “SportsNation.” Check out the exclusive video from the New York City event below featuring Cam Newton and Johnson.

NEW YORK CITY – EA Sports kicked off the countdown to the latest installment of Madden live in Times Square before the 2012 NFL Draft by allowing fans to choose the cover athlete of the game on ESPN’s “Sports Nation.” Calvin Johnson edged Cam Newton in the battle, but gamers will be glad to see EA is expanding its Madden franchise to new systems. Madden NFL 13 will debut on Sony’s PlayStation Vita come August 28th. And the game will implement Kinect technology for the first time.

Since March 7, fans nationwide have been casting their votes to determine the next cover athlete for Madden NFL 13, logging 4.3 million votes during the play-in round and more than 8.5 million votes since the start of the bracket phase of the competition on March 21.  Weekly fan voting will determine which of the remaining 16 NFL players will advance through seeded brackets - culminating with the unveiling of the Madden NFL 13 cover athlete winner on ESPN's SportsNation on April 25 at 5 p.m. ET. One of the NFl players still in the hunt is the New England Patriots’ Rob Gronkowsi, who talks Madden and Modern Warfare 3 in the exclusive video below.

EA SPORTS and ESPN are once again allowing fans to cast the vote for the next Madden cover athlete. The Madden NFL Cover Vote campaign for Madden NFL 13 has officially kicked off. Last year, nearly 13 million votes were cast through ESPNSportsNation.com and ESPN mobile in both companies’ most successful cross-platform activation. Tenth-seeded Cleveland Browns running back, Peyton Hillis, trucked through the six week competition all the way to the ultimate end zone – the Madden NFL 12 cover. EA teased this news at the Madden Bowl in Indianapolis during Super Bowl week. Check out the exclusive video below with former Madden Bowl champ Maurice Jones-Drew, who’s in the running for the cover this year.

LAS VEGAS – Every year, the BCS Championship game collides with the Consumer Electronics Show. Even with the later CES 2012, attendees find a conflict between watching the big game between the top-seeded LSU Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide or checking out the latest gadgets and technology at Showstoppers. This year, ESPN 3D is allowing attendees in Sin City to experience all of the action from the New Orleans Superdome as if they were there on the field. Sponsors of ESPN's 3D BCS screening at the Las Vegas Hotel’s theater are Real D (3D screen), Marchon (3D eyewear) and Christie Digital (3D projector). Check out an exclusive interview from inside ESPN 3D’s broadcast truck in the video below.

NBA 2K12 cover athlete and Legend Magic Johnson is now part of the ABC and ESPN pregame shows for the 2011-12 NBA season. With the lockout over and the shortened schedule in full swing with the Christmas Day tip-off, Johnson breaks down the New York Knicks and Sacramento Kings and offers his teams to watch for the new season. Gamers can play as Magic in NBA 2K12 and the DLC, NBA Legends Showcase.

Earvin “Magic” Johnson is excited to be on the cover of 2K Sports’ NBA 2K12 and for the start of the NBA season on Christmas Day. Johnson will be part of ABC and ESPN pregame shows for this abbreviated NBA season. The cover athlete took some time to break down some of the NBA’s blockbuster trades in this interview below.

LOS ANGELES -- With the NBA season back on, there will be even more 3D sports to watch at the brand new South by Vizio 3D sports bar in Santa Monica, CA. The new bar has 33 Vizio 3D TVs featuring passive technology. Sports fans will be able to watch ESPN 3D and other 3D sports broadcasts in the bar, while eating and drinking. Vizio walks us through this really cool bar concept in the exclusive 3D video below (you can watch it in old-fashioned 2D by adjusting the slider).

Hot on the heels of our speculation article wondering what services would be available for it, Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb revealed the first official details on the streaming TV channels that would be coming to Xbox Live as part of next month's dashboard update.  And though the services may not be to everyone's liking (like ESPN), there's still plenty here to watch.

LOS ANGELES -- 3D entertainment is a clear-cut economic success story generating enormous international excitement, agreed a cross-section of speakers at the fourth annual 3D Entertainment Summit. Co-located this year with the 3D Gaming Summit: 3D Gaming & Beyond and the LA Mobile Entertainment Summit, keynote and featured speakers at the three conferences included Co-Chairmen James Cameron and Vince Pace, CAMERON | PACE Group; Tom Rothman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fox Filmed Entertainment; Bryan Burns, Vice President Strategic Business Planning and Development, ESPN; Michael V. Lewis, Chairman/CEO & Co-Founder, RealD; Mick Hocking, VP, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios; Roy Taylor, EVP/GM, MasterImage 3D and, at Thursday's 3D Gaming Summit, Vince Zampella (Call of Duty), General Manager, Respawn Entertainment and David Maisel, former Chairman, Marvel Studios and currently Strategic Advisor to Rovio Mobile (creator of Angry Birds).

A new report from Knowledge Networks shows “over the top” (OTT) video viewing has grown dramatically in just a year – both streamed and downloaded, on stationary as well as mobile platforms. Smartphones, videogame consoles, and video rental services are the main drivers of this trend, with Generations X and Y and Baby Boomers all increasing their OTT viewing. Game consoles, tablets and laptops are allowing consumers to watch video when they want, where they want. Xbox Live Video Marketplace allows gamers to stream college football games through ESPN 3, for example, and DirecTV offers NFL Sunday Ticket on mobile devices, laptops and PlayStation 3.

Sony is slowly but surely expanding their PlayStation Network to a variety of users, introducing movies, TV shows, streaming services like Netflix and Hulu Plus and great sports channels like MLB.TV and NHL GameCenter Live.  Today it took an even bigger step by announcing DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket as an available service this fall to all PSN users.  It's looking like a pretty sweet deal for football fans, but there are things that need to be taken under consideration.