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Prizefighter release date practically official
Yesterday I speculated that Don King Presents: Prizefighter appeared to be headed for a June release. Later in the morning retailers such as Gamestop, EB Games, and Gamefly updated their release date to June 10th for the 360. The Wii and DS versions of the game apparently won't be coming until later this year as they have a September placeholder. While 2K Sports has yet to give a specific date for the game (likely won't see that until it is attached to a press release) there is little rea...
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Two new NCAA Football 09 screenshots
When the first screens from NCAA Football 09 were released they were met with a level of disappointment. I expressed that when I questioned whether they were really from 09. EA Sports has now released two brand new screens that are intended to showcase the player models. NCAA Football 09 Art Director Jason Renfroe shares some details on what his team has done to improve the in game visuals and some of what you'll see in future screens of NCAA Football 09. On player models: "We've done...
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NFL Head Coach 09 trailer
EA Sports has released the first official trailer for NFL Head Coach 09. Some of the aspects of the game shown briefly include the play creator, free agent negotiation, coaching decisions, and actual on the field action. The game looks really good at this point and it definitely sounds like they're on top of the features and options that are necessary to make it work. Graphically it is such a drastic improvement over the previous Head Coach in every way including the on field action, sid...
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Prizefighter release not likely all that near
Back in January it looked like Don King Presents: Prizefighter was headed towards an early-mid spring release. Not long after discussing that possibility Gamestop moved the date back giving it a May placeholder essentially signaling that they anticipated a May release but were not given a concrete date. Generally 2K Sports promotes one title at a time with the games being spaced out at least three weeks or month apart. Right now the focus is on the bizarre Nintendo DS game MLB 2K8 Fantasy...
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1UP justifies SCEA’s pulled prerelease support with MLB 08 review
Back in early January I wrote an article regarding how a few companies had decided to no longer provide 1UP/EGM with prerelease copies of their games. The companies in question felt that they were not being treated fairly and that they could go to other outlets instead. This wasn't a case of trying to buy off reviews. Instead it was simply wanting their titles to be treated with the proper level of respect. There is obviously no way to stop them from reviewing the game however they weren't g...
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NHL 08 roster update and OTP expansion
EA Sports has sent over a document detailing all the player rating changes made in the latest roster update for NHL 08. Continue on to view the details of what players had their ratings go up and which went down. An update has also been applied that increases the capacity of Online Team Play. An additional three slots have been added on each side bringing it to six on six. That exceeds the total of 10 users involved through OTP currently found in NBA Live 08 and FIFA 08. Now every player ...
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Sparty gets Wii cover of NCAA Football 09
EA Sports today announced that Michigan State mascot Sparty has won the voting for the cover of the Wii version of NCAA Football 09. He joins Arkansas' Darren McFadden and three future announced cover athletes that will represent the different platform versions of the game this year. After looking at the support that Sparty had received from facebook groups, forums, and media coverage I made the prediction that he would jump ahead of Washington State's Butch T. Cougar to take the cover. It ...
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Another set of Facebreaker screenshots
EA Sports has sent over 10 new screens from their new arcade boxing title Facebreaker. This now makes for 25 total officially released screens from the game which appears to be headed for an early November release. These screens feature three fighters (Romeo, Ice, and Molotov) that have been seen previously. Below are a couple that you can view the full size images of by clicking the thumbnails. The remaining new screens and all others can be found in the gallery. ...
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