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The Line Drive for November 16
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, deal alerts, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. ♦Catch up on the week in news with the YT playlist of Daily Dish episodes! ♦Both NBA Live 15 and NBA 2K15 are down to about $51 on Amazon but BF deals loom. ♦EA Sports released a blog going over what each attribute does in Madden Ultimate Team. ♦New legends in Madden Ultimate Team this week are Ronnie Lott and Dan Marino. ââ„...
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NBA 2K15 Week Three Ratings Changes
While injuries are being reflected daily along with rotations, accessories, and more the ratings changes for NBA 2K15 have come in bunches and this third week of the season had the most impact yet. Last week 57 players were altered compared to 172 this week. The Nets appear to have benefited the most with ratings upgrades while the Nuggets went in the opposite direction. Anthony Davis and Stephen Curry move up to 90 overall while Tim Duncan drops a point to 89. Check out all the ratings c...
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The Daily Dish for 11/14/14
In this episode of The Daily Dish the new Press Row Podcast is covered which focuses on the broken state of many games at launch and how the industry and consumers are approaching these products. Also EA Sports is hyping the "new era" of NHL, Madden NFL 15 has a new roster update out, a brief recap of some ratings movement in recent NBA 2K15 roster updates, and a preview of Saturday night's live Press Row Hangout. ComplexEmbed.Application.initialize({cId: "5qNnZwcToKENwpmQVvCQiZy2fhq6L0k6...
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Press Row Podcast: Launch Disasters Raise Questions About Media Coverage and Consumer Expectations
A special episode of the Press Row Podcast focuses on the recent botched launches for high profile games which is something that has certainly plagued the sports genre over the years. A number of areas are examined including the concept of "day one reviews", how embargoes can either serve or harm readership, whether widespread backlash to issues ultimately leads to any change, and opinions on how sports games are covered by the media at large and if consumer expectations of them are fair ...
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Madden NFL 15 Roster Update #12 Details
The roster update that follows week 10 of the season is out now for Madden NFL 15 on all platforms. Aaron Rodgers joins the 99 overall ranks with Peyton Manning and J.J. Watt. On the other end of things the Bears have 15 players and the Bengals 10 that drop this week. Check out all the changes in this new roster update with the spreadsheet here. Players on the rise include Jimmy Graham (+1 to 97), Marshawn Lynch (+1 to 96), Dez Bryant (+1 to 95), Brent Grimes (+1 to 94), Mario Williams...
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The Daily Dish for 11/13/14
Unable to produce a Daily Dish episode yesterday the next two will be stacked with more information than usual. Today's discusses the results out of the NBA 2K15 vs NBA Live 15 player face comparisons, previews tomorrow's Press Row Podcast and Saturday's live Hangout, takes note of the new blog for The Golf Club which has more on the handicap system and future Career mode, mentions the new NBA mobile game that went out, and summarizes the news on Black Friday deals for sports games. Compl...
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“New Era” for NHL Series Being Teased
A new addition to the NHL 15 website is pointing towards December 8th as a significant date for the series when a 'new era' will supposedly begin. Below the tagline is a mention to follow the NHL Twitter account for HUT news but that's the extent of things. That could be a hint at the area of the game that will be affected but it's hard to believe a "new era" would describe something related to a single mode. However this is EA and all they seem to care about now is Ultimate Team so it ca...
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NBA 2K15 vs NBA Live 15 Player Face Comparison Results
Both 2K Sports and EA Sports have touted their head scanning technology and player likenesses crafted for NBA 2K15 and NBA Live 15. That provided the perfect reasoning to dive into face comparisons and see which side actually delivered the best results. Over 120K total votes were cast through the 30 different face parings that were presented. Continue on to find out all the numbers and which game ultimately came out on top! (more…)...
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