Archive for the ‘Basketball’ Category
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Tiger Woods 12 Top Sports Game in April
Having topped the sales charts amongst sports games in four of its first six months of release NBA 2K11 was unseated in April by Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters. The release of Tiger Woods 12 in late March meant the first five days of sales were recorded in that month's NPD where it did not place in the top 10 despite performing well. It clearly got a boost from The Masters (April 7th-10th) along with positive word of mouth and mainstream exposure that had been absent the last few years...
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EA Sports Tiburon Loses an Executive Producer; Joins Wave of Recent Departures
The hits keep on coming for the EA Sports Tiburon studio. After breaking the news last month that several high ranking developers and executives were departing for the new social gaming studio being headed up by former Tiburon GM Philip Holt even more is happening behind the scenes as a long-tenured Executive Producer is leaving the company. Multiple sources have confirmed to me that Jeremy Strauser, who started with EA Sports way back in 1995, has taken a position with Zynga - the larges...
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NBA 2K11 First Round Playoffs Sim
The first round of the NBA Playoffs begins today and so I've taken NBA 2K11, set up the brackets, and simmed through to produce the predicted results. NBA 2K11 sees all but two series going five games, and the lower seeds that came out on top all seem to be plausible outcomes. The most surprising result however would probably be the Hawks losing game one to the Magic but then running off four straight wins. Continue on for a look at the game-by-game results and the top performers for each fi...
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NBA 2K11 Beats All Sports Releases in March
In its sixth month of release NBA 2K11 continued its sales dominance by topping all of the high profile new sports titles that arrived in March. That is a departure from the past few years where the MLB The Show franchise carried the month with relative ease. Last year NBA 2K10 did not even make the top 20 for the month to put it in context. In total there were eight different sports themed titles to release last month and that competition appears to have eaten away at the potential of each ...
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NBA Jam: On Fire Edition Announced
Though the confirmation that there will be no NBA sim title released this year was the big news out of EA Sports today they also announced a new version of NBA Jam to release in its place. NBA Jam: On Fire Edition will arrive in the fall as a downloadable offering through Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. (more…)...
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EA Sports Delays Return of NBA Sim to 2012
It has been my gut feeling all along that there would be no simulation NBA title from EA Sports released this year. The damage done by the near release of NBA Elite 11 was too much to recover from quickly, especially given the studio move from EA Canada to Tiburon which would surely hold up the process. When it was discovered that the team hadn't even been put together at the point the move was announced it became clear it wasn't going to get done in a single development cycle. EA Sports ...
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NBA 2K12 Adding Steve Kerr as Commentator
Ready for a nugget of NBA 2K12 news seven months out from release? Yesterday on the Damon Bruce radio show Kevin Harlan revealed that Steve Kerr will be a commentator in the game. No further details were discussed but it would seem to reason Kerr will be replacing Clark Kellogg. Bruce did the voice-overs for the NBA 2K11 halftime shows and Harlan has been the play-by-play commentator on the series since 2K6. Kellogg joined as as color commentator in 2K9. Steve Kerr acted as a commentat...
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EA Sports Bails on NBA Jam Support
EA Sports has released a statement in regards to NBA Jam laying out that the game will be receiving no further post-release support. When NBA Jam released in November it did so with rosters that were already out of date at the time. With the trade deadline in the NBA having passed and several huge transactions having taken place over the course of the season consumers had been looking for a roster update to reflect the moves. That will not be coming and neither will a patch to improve gameplay...
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