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First NCAA Football 08 details revealed
TeamXbox and Gamespot both posted articles presenting the first information on NCAA Football 08 as the clock struck Midnight PT last night. Some of the main points of interest are recapped below: Lead by Example: Expanding on the 'Impact Players' this will allow any player on the field to influence their own play as well as the team's by succeeding on the field. The better an individual does, the more confidence they will gain. No longer is that restricted to only the few impact players o...
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No franchise mode in All-Pro Football 2K8
2K Sports wants you to "play the game and shut up". Apparently that means play in something other than franchise mode because the game won't have it. This comes as more news breaks from the Game Informer preview. "Although the developer won't go into detail about the game's league structure, we know there won't be a franchise mode. No guiding your team through multiple years or drafting for the future." Another thing that many were taking for granted to be included in All-Pro Football 2K8,...
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Tiger Woods 08 will introduce GamerNet
IGN has posted a first look at Tiger Woods 08. In it two new innovative features are touched upon. 'Photo Face' which involves scanning your own face into the game for your created golfer, and 'GamerNet' a youtube style video service for the game. GamerNet clearly targets the YouTube and MySpace generation. Gamers, EA says, have changed. We play online, we share pictures and video clips, we fight for achievement points and gamer score and virtual trophies. Using a nifty new technology, the ...
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EA Sports moving Tiger Woods franchise to Tiburon studio
The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the EA Sports Tiger Woods franchise will be moving from the Redwood City studio in California to the Florida based Tiburon studio. The local studio's heft continued to grow Tuesday with the announcement that the Tiger Woods PGA Tour video-game series has been shifted to Tiburon from an EA site in California. "It makes sense for us to have the franchise here," said Steve Chiang, EA Tiburon's general manager and one of the original studio's three f...
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ESPN examines possible Madden 08 cover athletes
ESPN's videogame site now features a piece presenting nine potential candidates with odds on their likelihood of being the cover athelete for Madden 08. The players/odds are: Peyton Manning 7-2, Tom Brady 5-1, Chad Johnson 8-1, LaDanian Tomlinson 9-1, Reggie Bush 10-1, Vince Young 12-1, Larry Johnson 15-1, Brian Urlacher 20-1, Devin Hester 100-1. For the sake of this article, lets assume that ESPN has inside knowledge of who has been chosen to be on the cover this year and that person i...
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2K Sports releases first screenshots from The Bigs
While being slated for a summer release (Gamestop lists it currently as 6/1 which essentially means unknown date) very little has been revealed about the new game from 2K Sports The Bigs. What do we know about the game right now? We know it is an 'arcade' style game in the mold of the now retired MLB Slugfest series. We know the focus is on improving your created player or team of players and not a franchise type mode. We know it will have online play for up to four players (yay!). We kno...
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First info on All-Pro Football 2K8?
A member of the Operation Sports forum BadBoy49er has received the May edition of Game Informer magazine, which contains the first preview of All-Pro Football 2K8. Among the highlights according to that member: Ok first the graphics This is definitely an early version because it looks like its not even XBOX 1 Although it is mentioned the graphics were very early and they would be improved Now for the info i know you guys really want ill just make bullet points -No crib ...
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Ambulance Carnage
[youtube]_138p6uzhUk[/youtube] This reminds me of a time when things that would now be considered glitches actually added to the appeal and enjoyment people had. Maybe we just didn't take games as seriously back then. There is nothing like seeing players randomly plowed down by an ambulance. The irony!...
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