The follow-up patch for NCAA Football 12 went live last night for the PS3 and today for the Xbox 360 to address an issue introduced in early September. No-huddle has been fixed after the last patch inadvertently resulted in severe limitations of play selection for both the offense and defense. There have been no indications as of yet whether this patch represents finality for NCAA 12′s post-release support. (Update) I’ve now been informed a third patch is in the works but when it will come and what it will entail remains unknown.

It took nearly two months for the patch to arrive and attempt to address several of the severe issues in NCAA Football 12 – but it is here now for the PS3 expected out Friday morning for the Xbox 360. Broken new features like Custom Playbooks, player tendencies changing in edited rosters, problems in Online Dynasty, and console freezes are just some of the highly publicized issues that were discovered. Essentially this patch is intended to address problems that shipped with NCAA 12 rather than improve the gameplay or fix coach progression – which may instead be dealt with through a “tuning update” at some point.

EA Sports also sent news that a server side update had been pushed out to fix two problems in Online Dynasty. Occurrences of game results changing after advancing weeks and “transfer failed” errors when attempting to advance were widespread and fixes are now said to be implemented. Early word however is that the “transfer failed” stumbling block remains an issue for many dynasties.

Unfortunately new issues with no-huddle and the Custom Playbooks have already been encountered so everything promised will have to be followed up on. Continue to check out the details of what the patch is supposed to deliver.  

•Custom Playbooks
With this Title Update the missing play issue that led to a number of problems when using Custom Playbooks has been fixed. Not only is the issue fixed, but you will not need to recreate your playbooks! Any existing playbook will have the fix applied, and you will be able to continue using that playbook without issue.

•Tendencies
As with the Custom Playbooks resolution, the fix to the issue of edited player tendencies changing will not negate any previously edited roster file. The fix will be applied to both those existing files, as well as any new roster file that is created.

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Sun, Mar 06, 2011 | 00:22 GMT

It’s Saturday. There’s loads of tiny stuff to fill the empty spaces inside your brain below.

• You, the gamer, can vote on who gets to be the cover boy for NCAA Football 12. Exciting, isn’t it?
• Modern Warfare 2 is getting a patch to help curb cheating on PS3 March 8. Xbox 360 gets it soon. Thanks, Ripten.
• Dead Nation is getting a patch on March 7 that adds online co-op Voice Chat, Checkpoint saves, copy saves, and further surprises.
• Angry Birds is coming to Facebook, and if you “like” the official page, you will get exclusive updates on its progress.
• Yakuza 4′s quiz games will not be included in the English version due to the text being in Japanese, and the soundtrack intro will not be the same due to licensing issues. Hostesses will be in it though, so rest easy.
• Rock Band 3 is getting a nice helping of Depeche Mode next week. Yummy. There’s also a track from Death Cab for Cutie coming as well.
• There’s a Fight Night Champion video interview with Anthony Mundine and Billy The Kid Dib over on Gamespot.
• Steam has a weekend sale going on. You can get a Ubisoft four-pack featuring: Assassin’s Creed: Director’s Cut Edition, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Far Cry 2: Fortune’s Edition, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for $ 12.99. That’s a savings of 81 percent.
• Dengeki Online has new shots from Night of the Sacrifice posted. Go have a look.
• THQ was at GDC, and held a round table talk on its gaming plans for 2011, and discussed its new identity a bit. Thanks, GamePro.
• The University of Southern California has been named the top school for those wanting to major in gaming goodness.
• Starpoint Gemini, the RPG tactical sim set in space, will be released on March 25. It’s gone gold, and a developer interview is available for download on GamersHell.
• Elite Beat Agents developer iNiS held a meeting with publishers behind closed doors at GDC this week, according to Siliconera. What does it have up its sleeve? Time will tell, we suppose.
• Hideki Konno gave a presentation on 3DS development at GDC this week. During which, Gamasutra said he explained “why he was put in charge of a hardware project.”
• EvilAvatar has posted a Clone Trooper trailer for LEGO Star Wars III. Watch it.
• Like PopCap games? Want all of them? Well, for $ 99.95 you can have all 51 of ‘em for your very own.
• As promised last month, Sega Dreamcast games are now available on Steam. Each will run you $ 8.99 or you can bundle all four for $ 29.99. Thanks, BigDownload.
• Excalibur Publishing and 1C Company have announced Theater of War 3: Korea. Read the press release over on EvilAvatar.