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New Redskins Madden 08 screenshots
EA has released eight new screens from Madden 08 featuring the Washington Redskins. Click the thumbnails below to view the full size images. ...
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Chris Paul is the cover athlete for NBA 2K8
The cover athlete for 2K Sports NBA 2K8 will be New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul. Paul won the 2006 Rookie of the Year award and in his sophomore season averaged 17.3 PPG and 8.9 APG. I like the choice here. He is a fresh face who in the past has talked about his desire to be on a cover of a basketball game. After two years of Shaq this is a welcome change. Along with NBA Live 08's Gilbert Arenas, the two cover athletes are highly marketable guys who seem excited about the opportu...
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Odd cover art choices for the NCAA basketball games
The two big names from college basketball making their way into the NBA this year are of course Greg Oden and Kevin Durant. Oden was chosen as cover athlete for College Hoops 2K8 and Durant is representing NCAA March Madness 08. The cover art for the two games were revealed recently. Something about both of them struck me as being strange. They come across as unnatural for various reasons. There had to have been better options than these right? First of all that doesn't even look like Oden...
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NBA Live 08: Quick-Strike Ball Handling
Earlier IGN went over Go-To Moves and Own the Paint for NBA Live 08. Now they have put the spotlight on Quick-Strike Ball Handling which you can read in its entirety here. All that remains in the four part series is the Hot Spots, which we'll see detailed on Thursday. Harvested from NBA Street, the Quick-Strike system allows players to easily chain dribble moves in a smooth and natural-looking way. Rather than relying on complex movements, Quick-Strike is contextual and is focused on letti...
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NCAA Football 08 Campus Legend tutorial video
Gametrailers has released the tutorial from NCAA Football 08 going through the Campus Legend mode. The best thing this video demonstrates is the new camera angles. The angles previously have killed RFTH and Superstar modes for me. That has stung especially since I'm far more interested in them than I am in Dynasty or Franchise. My favorite position to play is CB, and it has been near impossible in the past to do so. Now I can't wait to start it up. ...
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NBA Live 08 sizzle trailer
IGN has posted up a sizzle trailer for NBA Live 08. If there is one thing you can always rely on, it's that EA will put out trailers that really make the game seem exciting. Despite the issues that I laid out in my community day report, after watching this I get the itch to get back playing the game some more. It really is unprecedented the amount of access, info, and media out on a game that is still four months away from release. ...
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Screens of Celtics’ Ray Allen in NBA Live 08
Earlier today EA released two screenshots of Ray Allen in his new Boston Celtics gear. This is the first in a seven day series of NBA Draft related screens that will be released. Click the image above to view both of them in full size at the official NBA Live 08 website. The Celtics look like they'll be a relatively good team in the game. Combining him with Paul Pierce is going to make for a pretty effective combo. Now that Rashard Lewis is leaving for the Magic, there is another team that...
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Padre’s The BIGS Rookie Challenge: Part 3
Part 1 - Part 2 I tried out the HR Pinball which was pretty neat. I'm not sure how much time I'll spend with it but I thought it was one of the better mini-games in a sports title since MVP Baseball. Just wish there was a challenge form of it online. I like that even in this game there is fatigue for starting pitchers. I figured that they wouldn't even take it into consideration, but you basically want to keep your three man rotation going because the SPs fatigue level is disp...
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