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Make sure to get your highlight clip contest votes in!
Just a reminder that the voting for the NCAA Football 08 highlight clip contest will come to a close at 8PT/11ET tonight. Make sure to get your votes in and help determine the winner! As I post this it is a very tight race. Clip #1 holds a 58-57 lead over clip #2, with clip #5 having an outside chance sitting at 39 votes. Your individual votes really will decide the winner as it appears it will go right down to the wire. Click here to watch the five videos and cast your vote. ...
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Details on the Slam Dunk Contest in NBA 2K8
Gamespot has posted hands-on impressions and some of the specifics to the new Slam Dunk Contest being introduced in NBA 2K8. You can read the article here. It's stated that 2K is "looking into online play". Unfortunately that wording leads me to believe it won't happen this year. Even with NBA Live's Slam Dunk Contest over the past couple years it just doesn't do much for me because it hasn't been taken online yet. I don't have the patience to learn t...
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First screenshots from NBA 2K8
We finally have the first look at NBA 2K8 as 2K Sports has released a set of screens from the game. Unfortunately it's quite apparent that the game didn't get the graphical upgrade that other 2K titles NHL 2K8 and MLB 2K7 received over their previous versions. They have this overly waxy look to the players and all have the same dead facial expression. The environment such as the court and crowd look like they may be improved but are difficult to judge from these. The screenshots do...
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New set of NBA Live 08 screenshots
Here is a new group of screens from NBA Live 08. Click the thumbnails below to view the full size images. ...
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How will Michael Vick be dealt with in Madden?
EA Product Manager Jerrold Smith has stated that both Michael Vick and Pacman Jones will be included in the original roster that ships with Madden 08. Generally rosters for sports titles are locked in about a month and a half before the release date. So in the case of Michael Vick it isn't that surprising to hear that he'll be in the game. However it is curious that Pacman Jones still found his way in despite being suspended for the full year on May 17th. Knowing this info it is al...
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Another take on the Vick All-Pro Football 2K8 trailer
A few days ago I wrote about how surprised I was to not only see another questionable video produced by GameTrailers, but also that an NFL player was being used to promote an unlicensed game. You can read up on it here. Michael Vick has no relation to APF as he is not in the game and the attempt to capatalize on the current controversy is shameful regardless. Seeing Vick in a trailer for APF could potentially confuse consumers. Going further than that there is the...
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Vote for the highlight clip contest winner
There were a ton of submissions for the NCAA Football 08 highlight clip contest and narrowing it down to only five was extremely tough to do. I went back and forth on several of them. In some ways I don't feel satisfied with this top five because there were some really cool clips that I had to leave out. But I said I would trim it to five final candidates to be voted upon, and that is what I have done. Ultimately I ended up taking a handful that had some sort of variation to them. There ...
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New video focusing on Madden 08 game modes
Gametrailers has posted a new video featuring a look at the modes in Madden 08. Among the topics discussed are franchise, owner, player editing/creation, online play, ESPN integration, animations, and player models. Continue on to view the video as well as the notes I took away from it. (more…)...
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