Madden Planet is a non-profit making website produced and maintained by a staff of volunteers who care passionately about the game of Madden, and the community that has built up around the game.

The site has its origins dating back to 1995, a website called Madden Central. The site was started by Mike Murphy and became the recognised leader in the Madden community, and a standard against which all other gaming websites were compared. It received much attention from the EA producers of the game who gave the site interviews often ahead of major sports gaming websites like Gamespot, and who posted on the forums.

The website was owned by a company called Gamers Alliance, and when Mike Murphy moved on to bigger and better things he handed over the reigns to Mike Moen. Mike ran the site for approximately 12 months before himself retiring, and it was at that stage that AndyP was asked to take over the running of the site.

Gamers Alliance owned the rights to the Madden Central domain name, and when the company closed down its operations, all assets, including the domain name for maddencentral.com, were sold.

The site however continued, a new host was found at Gamespy, and a new name was established. The site flourished at Gamespy and received well in excess of 8 million hits a month on the network. However, over the course of time Gamespy made it clear that as part of the consolidation in network operations, hosted websites would receive much limited resources and could not comfortably accommodate a site of this size. Ultimately it was decided to move away from Gamespy and become an exclusively independent website. Given the choice of removing features from the site, and making the website smaller to fit easily into the Gamespy model, a tough decision was made to leave.

Rights to the domain were once again held by Gamespy, who allowed ownership to lapse, so once again a new name was acquired. Madden Planet was born, and here we are today.

Amongst those who work on the Madden game, amongst the EA staff, producers, testers, and all who contact us to offer their support, the site is recognised as the longest standing, most well established, and innovative Madden website on the net.

Welcome to 2004. As we look ahead to another exciting year of Madden gaming, thank you for visiting, and if you have been a regular over many years, thank you for your continued support.

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