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The All-Star update is here for NBA 2K16
The uniforms and court for this year's NBA All-Star Game which takes place in Toronto on February 14 made it into NBA 2K16 earlier today. The full rosters for the game were updated following the reserve selections being announced last week. The jerseys include, for the first time ever, an advertisement on front with the sponsorship by Kia. Strangely though the 2016 All-Star Game in NBA 2K16 is being played in Madison Square Garden rather than Air Canada Centre. It wouldn't be a surpri...
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EA Sports UFC 2 highlight reel
With the EA Sports UFC 2 beta about to come to a close I put together a highlight reel of some of the best moments from my online fights completed throughout the beta period. Please enable Javascript to watch this video...
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$20 digital Madden NFL 16 Super Bowl Edition available for one week; includes $20 worth of Madden Points for Ultimate Team
Madden NFL 16 was added to the EA Access Vault on Xbox One today, but for those on PlayStation 4, or who would rather not subscribe to the service on XB1, there's a new deal of interest to consider. EA Sports has once again released a "Super Bowl Edition" of the game to the digital stores on PS4 and XB1. For PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold members it can be purchased for $19.80.Ă‚Â This special edition of the game is only available starting today through February 9. The Super Bowl ...
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Madden NFL 16 added to the EA Access Vault
The first of last year's sports games has reached the Vault in EA Access. Madden NFL 16 has just been added, making it available in full to all subscribers. EA Access is currently exclusive to Xbox One with Sony declining to offer the service on PS4. For $30 a year or $5 month-to-month, members get unlimited access to the back library of EA games on the console which in addition to Madden 16 now includes 2014's sports titles plus Battlefield Hardline, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Titanfall, a...
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Take Two/2K Sports being sued over player tattoos in NBA 2K16
Many have lamented the lack of player tattoos in certain sports video games, most prominently the Madden NFL series. EA Sports made a big deal out of Colin Kaepernick getting his tattoos in Madden NFL 15 but he was the only player in the game with them. The publisher no longer includes potentially copyright infringing art without those who own the rights having signed off on them. There are now a few more players including cover athlete Odell Beckham Jr. with them in Madden NFL 16. ...
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Serious questions surround the $250K NBA 2K16 Pro-Am competition
With the rise of eSports it was only a matter of time before sports game publishers made their moves into the space. EA Sports with Madden NFL 16 was the first to hold their own event, offering up a relatively small prize but in a tightly defined and controlled competition that has proven to be successful in what it sought out to do. The semi-finals and finals of the event, which uses the game's Draft Champions mode, will be taking place tomorrow. On the flip side of things it seems as th...
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The Line Drive for January 31
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, deal alerts, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. ♦Check out the Pastapadre Twitter feed for some EA UFC 2 gameplay highlight gifs. ♦EA's stock has fallen about 8% after reporting disappointing third quarter revenues. ♦The NBA 2K16 Pro-Am competition apparently has started with little on rules/parameters. ♦NBA 2K16 decided to break the hands of Blake Griffin in the latest r...
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Opening some Ultimate Team packs in EA Sports UFC 2
Ultimate Team mode in EA Sports UFC 2 is naturally quite different than those found in the publisher's team sports games. In UFC, you're working on building up your stable of created fighters, which means packs contain attribute boosts, perks, and moves rather than trying to obtain real-life fighters. In this video the Middleweight Starter Pack is opened, the different types of packs available to purchase are browsed through, and then two Premium Packs, one Middleweight Pack, and a Fight Nig...
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