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EA Doesn’t Expect Their NBA Offering to Compete with 2K For “A Few Years”
Recently promoted to COO, former EA Sports president Peter Moore talked to IndustryGamers about the company's NBA series. After attempting an overhaul and re-brand going from NBA Live to NBA Elite the game was canceled at the very last minute after harsh consumer response to the demo and glitch videos having gone viral. The series was then transferred to the Tiburon studio where it is taking a year off before returning in fall 2012. "It’ll take a while to get back, yeah. It’ll...
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Copies of NBA 2K12 Begin to Circulate
Last year NBA 2K11 made a huge splash through social media channels that was largely driven by celebrities - combined with the mainstream allure of Michael Jordan's involvement. With still over a month until release it appears that NBA 2K12 has "gone gold" and retail copies are already being distributed to those same high profile personalities. The Game, well known for his interest in sports titles as well as having others play games constantly under his gamertag, is the first to tweet ab...
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Netflix Will Lose Starz Next Year
As Netflix continues to add content to its streaming service - with everything from agreements with ABC, Mad Men, Miramax, and even their own original programming - they have lost their biggest content supplier. Negotiations with Starz have broken off and the network will not be extending the contract with Netflix which is set to expire on February 28th 2012. Starz played a huge part in Netflix's streaming becoming so popular - with contributions being original series and many recent and ...
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Madden NFL 12 Online Impressions
Though only a few days in Madden NFL 12 has delivered one of the better online experiences to date for a sports game. Typically this series, and many others, struggle with performance issues at and shortly following release but that has largely been avoided here. There is one problem being experienced by a small percentage of consumers but beyond that online has been nothing short of excellent and it is refreshing to say that after years of disappointment. (more…)...
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UFC Undisputed 3 Pre-Order Details Emerge
Some companies are offering pre-order deals that stretch across any number of retailers while others have chosen to go the exclusive route and give unique DLC to a particular one. In the case of THQ and UFC Undisputed 3 it appears they have chosen to hamper consumer choice by giving exclusive fighters to just one retailer. GameStop has posted their exclusive pre-order deal for UFC Undisputed 3 which will include four high profile fighters that will be making their series debut: Nick Diaz,...
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Director Chosen for Die Hard 5
After considering a number of potential directors for the fifth film in the Die Hard franchise Fox has settled on John Moore (Max Payne, The Omen, Flight of the Phoenix). The studio and star Bruce Willis came to the decision and now it is just a matter of making it official as the parties are in final contract discussions. Moore came out on top of a number of much more intriguing options, with names like Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), Joe Cornish (Attack the Block), and Justin Lin (Fast Fi...
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Player Roles in Madden NFL 12
One of the most intriguing and valuable additions to Madden NFL 12 has come with the introduction of  'Player Roles'. The impact of each role varies from being helpful or detrimental on the field or in identifying their place on a team roster for management purposes. Here is a look at what each of the 23 roles signify and the current lineup of players who have received a role for each NFL team. It's unclear at this time if roles will be altered over the course of the year through roste...
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Latest Trailer for NBA 2K12
2K Sports has followed up on the first trailer for NBA 2K12, which focused on legends and historic teams, by releasing a new trailer today that interchanges the legends and current NBA players. It's all flash and little substance but that is what typically comes out of this type of trailer - and there are gameplay videos from Gamescom to check out to get a better feel for 2K12 for those seeking more. Though only a little over a month remains until release 2K has been secretive regarding m...
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