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End of Year Community Awards: Best Career Mode of 2014
The voting for various categories in the Pastapadre Community Awards continues with the Best Career Mode opening up today. Past winners have alternated between NBA 2K (2010, 2012) and The Show (2011, 2013). It's the only original Community Awards category that doesn't even have three viable candidates this year. There are two standouts and those are NBA 2K15 and MLB 14: The Show. MyCareer is a completely unique story-based experience while Road to the Show offers the more traditiona...
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End of Year Community Awards: Best Franchise Mode of 2014
The voting for various categories in the Pastapadre Community Awards continues with today Best Franchise Mode opening up. This is a category that has been dominated by the Madden NFL series which is looking for its fourth straight victory. Some of its usual competition has fallen out of the running. NCAA Football, the only other series to win the award, is no longer being made and NHL dug its own grave this year. Taking their place are FIFA 15 and NBA 2K15. (more…)...
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First Trailer for Entourage
The first look at the upcoming Entourage movie has arrived. The film continues the story built through eight seasons on HBO and all of the primary actors return to their roles. The creator of the series, Doug Ellin, wrote the screenplay and directs. Entourage is slated to release June 5, 2015. Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, b...
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Press Row Hangout: Super Mega Baseball and More on the PRP SGOTY
The latest Press Row Hangout was recorded live last night and features extended discussion on Super Mega Baseball (7:33) - which has stormed onto the scene as one of the best sports games of the year to the surprise of many - and additional reaction to the results from the Sports Game of the Year Press Row Podcast that went out late last week (1:02:26). Please enable Javascript to watch this video...
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Second Patch for NBA 2K15 Finally Arrives on Xbox One
Over two weeks have passed since the second post-release patch for NBA 2K15 went out for PlayStation 4 and PC yet it took until today for it to make its way to the Xbox One. Communication was scarce over the period and the delay may suggest that it was actually rejected and resubmitted at some point or Microsoft simply has a huge backlog they're working through. 2K could have updated fans on its status but chose not to do so. Regardless now those on Xbox One who were frustrated over the p...
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Madden NFL 15 Week 16 Upcoming Roster Update Discussion
Heading into the final week of the NFL season one playoff spot remains in both the AFC and NFC. There has to be a champion from the NFC South while a Wild Card spot is still uncertain in the AFC. The Patriots have locked up the #1 seed and the Seahawks will do the same with a win over the Rams on Sunday. Names on the rise in this week's roster update for Madden NFL 15 will include Russell Wilson, Matt Ryan, Teddy Bridgewater, Jonathan Stewart, Odell Beckham Jr., Luke Willson, Zach Ertz, C...
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The Daily Dish for 12/22/14
In this episode of The Daily Dish the Pastapadre Community Award voting has kicked off, EA Sports UFC is now available for those with EA Access subscriptions, results of the feature and improvements poll for MLB 15: The Show, the PS4 deal for The Golf Club is coming to a close, the latest patch for The Golf Club, and mentions of the recent Sports Game of the Year Press Row Podcast and the next Press Row Hangout. Please enable Javascript to watch this video Referenced in the video ââ...
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End of Year Community Awards: Best Gameplay of 2014
With 2014 coming to a close it’s time to begin looking back on the developments that have taken place and award the various efforts in sports gaming. To start will be the first of the Community Awards. You can check out the winners from previous years here. The categories to look forward to are Community Sports Game of the Year, Best New or Non-Yearly Sports Game, Best Gameplay, Best Online Play, Best Presentation, Best Franchise Mode, Best Career Mode, Best Post-Release Support, B...
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