Robin Antonick created the original Madden Football for EA and is now building the Indie Sports Network.
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Creator of the original Madden NFL Football launches Kickstarter for Indie Sports Network

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Robin Antonick is best known for creating the Madden NFL Football megafranchise and then getting into a lawsuit with Electronic Arts over the rights to one of the most important series in video games. He went to trial against the sports game giant and won a verdict against it. Now he’s building a new sports game platform, the Indie Sports Network, and has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to fund it.

Madden is a cornerstone franchise in video games. It’s one of the series that built EA into one of the largest publishers in the world, and it’s one of the top-selling games every year (and of all time).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.