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Latest NCAA Football 09 Top 10 Highlights
The most recent Top 10 highlights of the week for NCAA Football 09 on EA Sports World featured some videos selected directly from the forum. Head on over to check it out. Continue to leave your highlights in the forum threads as the EA reps that select them each week browse through to consider them. To head directly to the threads: Madden 09 - NCAA Football 09 - NBA Live 09 - NHL 09...
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Pastapadre On OS Waiver Wire Podcast
I had the opportunity to make a special appearance on Operation Sports' Waiver Wire Podcast. Teaming up with host Chase Becotte we discuss a number of topics hot in the sports gaming world right now. Those include EA's quarterly financial numbers, the NHL 09 patch, NBA Live 365 and 2K Insider's rough starts, the latest on NCAA Basketball 09, and the Madden cover situation for next year. You can download the show directly from here or catch it via iTunes. Make sure to leave any thoughts yo...
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The First Big Test For 365 and Insider
Earlier today Allen Iverson was traded to the Pistons with Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess heading in return to the Nuggets. This is obviously a very high profile transaction which provides the first opportunity to see which NBA game will have the change made first. Will it be NBA Live 09 with the daily 365 updates? Or will the 2K Insider come through and get the move completed? With Live 365's initial struggles and the 2K Insider being largely absent this could be an interesting rac...
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First NCAA Basketball 09 Gameplay Video
Operation Sports has provided the first opportunity to see gameplay from NCAA Basketball 09 with a video of North Carolina @ Duke. It goes from the loading shoot-around through just over the first four minutes of the first quarter. Just some quick observations I made from the video: There is little info given pre-game, with the lineups showing nothing but the player # and name (or in this case their position). It isn't giving any info to use such as you see with Live's DNA. There shou...
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NBA Highlight Contest Winners
Once again thanks to everyone who sent in highlight clips from NBA Live 09 and NBA 2K9. It was tough to narrow the entries down to the fields of five and then for the voting which in both cases ended up close. The NBA 2K9 winner was CTROB with his Baron Davis submission and for the Live side it was TRex3302 with the Lebron James clip. The two winners can send me a message through the contact form in order to discuss the prize and delivery information if you don't hear from me first via em...
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NBA Live 365 Now Somewhat Updated
After the initial delays in getting NBA Live 09's 365 feature pushed out, the first update is currently available for both the PS3 and 360. From here on out it there should be a new update every day after at least one NBA game is played. Now though EA is stating that they are not going to update the DNA for a few more days. Until then it'll just be the rosters and rotations that are adjusted based on the previous night's games and the Rewind games. It's frustrating to have to wait on the ...
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More NCAA Basketball 09 Related Topics
I have added 25 new screenshots in the gallery. The Xbox 360 Achievements for the game can be found here. I've never liked achievements that I immediately recognize I'll never have a chance at or that force you to play the game in an unorthodox manner. There are a few of those on that list for 09. There will also be accomplishments tied into EA Sports World for both the 360 and PS3 but no trophy support for the PS3. The EA Sports World page for the game just went live. Though we haven'...
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NBA Live 365 MIA
If you've been watching any of the NBA games so far this year you surely haven't been able to miss the onslaught of advertising for NBA Live 09's 365 feature. Certainly the feature is already proven beneficial for improving Live, but what most everyone was waiting for was the daily updates. After all the slogan is "Made Fresh Daily". To EA's credit they've done manual updates including details such as player accessories leading up to the start of the season. Though I felt that they should...
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