What’s the key to improving an already hit sports franchise year after year? Heck if we now, but seeing as Madden NFL manages to ceaselessly tops annual sales charts, we’re going to go out on a limb and say Electronic Arts knows damn well how it’s done.

Step one? Proclaim a few shmancy new features to your game that will have that dedicated fanbase being all like, “Oh man, now I definitely have to buy this year’s edition!” For Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (mmhmm, consider this an announcement), they come in the form of GamerNet and Photo Game Face (both working titles). One of them is a user-centric online service that allows players to save their most prized shots, holes and rounds, post them for all to see and then rake in the game points by either creating the best challenges or beating others’. The other is a photo-realistic generator that turns your real-life pictures into players on the course. Can you guess which is which?

Development duties for Tiger Woods 08 have been handed over to the gridiron kings at EA Tiburon, who are prepping the game for release on all three Sony units, along with the Xbox360, Wii, Nintendo DS and PC. It’s the EA way, you know. More details to come!