EA Sports has detailed how Madden Ultimate Team will work in the upcoming Madden NFL 15.

The Madden Ultimate Team mode allows players to pick their team, collect their favorite current and past NFL players, and upgrade their squad to create their fantasy team. Players purchase packs containing new players, coaches, playbooks, stadiums, and more with coins they earn by competing with other players online or by completing single player challenges.

For the most part, Madden NFL 15’s Ultimate Team sounds a lot like previous iterations, only with a greatly improved user interface and introduction to the mode in the form of the Objectives screen.

“If you’re a new player, this is like a helpful friend,” EA Sports Tiburon Game Designer Chuck Kallenbach said in a post to the game’s official website. “For veterans of MUT, it’s a way to tour some of the changes. When you complete five tasks on the Objectives list, you get a reward pack. So there’s reason for both beginners and veterans to go through the Objectives.”

Players can now also sort, view, and manage items in their binder from a single streamlined screen.

Madden NFL 15 launches August 26 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4. Controversial cornerback Richard Sherman is the game's cover star. Hopefully it doesn't fall victim to the Madden Curse.

Publisher Deep Silver is taking another attempt at making its zombie game Dead Island into a movie.

According to Deadline, Deep Silver has partnered with Occupant Entertainment to package, produce, and finance a movie based on the game, set on a paradise island infested with the undead.

“The Dead Island universe offers a rich and unique setting that can expand beyond the pure gaming experience,” Deep Silver owner Koch Media CEO Dr. Klemens Kundratitz said. “We are very much looking forward to seeing Dead Island open up to new audiences and showing off the fun everybody at Deep Silver has with this brand.”

If the news sounds a little familiar it’s because Deep Silver made a similar deal with Lionsgate back in 2011, though that project fell through. When the rights reverted back to Deep Silver, it took the project to Occupant, which was one of the original bidders.

At the time, Lionsgate said that its interest in Dead Island was sparked by the original CGI trailer for the game, which went on to garner millions of views on YouTube and a Golden Lion award at Cannes at the International Festival of Creativity (an advertising award).

In addition to Dead Island 2 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, Deep Silver is also working on on the MOBA Dead Island: Epidemic, and the stealth-based Escape Dead Island for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.