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With the economy in a rut, it’s hard to justify fabulous Super Bowl bashes when companies are bleeding cash and slashing headcount. But Electronic Art’s is proudly soldiering on with its festivities, Madden Bowl-style. The publisher is just one of a handful of corporate entities going all out at Super Bowl XLIII with Madden Bowl XV, a select group of party hosts that includes dude-centric media outlets like Maxim and ESPN. EA’s annual, invite-only event pits NFL players against each other in the latest edition of the game, whilst freeloaders enjoy free snacks and booze.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); EA’s plan to throw a Madden-pimping party “was never in question,” according to EA Sports bossman Peter Moore, reports CNBC. Madden Bowl XV goes down this Thursday in [[link]] Tampa, Florida, 90 miles southwest of Madden NFL developer EA Tiburon, which recently saw cuts. Sure, cash-blowing parties [[link]] like Madden Bowl are probably harder to justify if you’ve just been given walking papers from Tiburon, or almost any EA developer. But one would think that with over 5 million copies of Madden NFL 09 sold last year, they’ve worked [[link]] the party fund into the budget. https://kotaku.com/now-the-real-list-of-2008s-bestselling-games-5135743 Where Have All The Super Bowl Parties Gone? [SportsBiz]