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Top 10 Sports Games of the Year
Over the coming weeks I'll be listing out my Top 10 Games of the Year. This won't be a recap of the 10 highest rated games per Metacritic...reviews be damned. However it will be a summary of how I view the them from what has turned out to be one of the best years ever for sports gamers. Some of the factors of consideration I have gone through are longevity, fun factor, general gameplay, technical achievements, online experience, and innovation. Last year the game that would've taken the t...
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Black Friday Deals
I can't imagine any of these deals being worth the hassle of going out on Black Friday, then again I'd rather pay more money for things just to avoid the crowds. So I'd be looking at Amazon which has some good deals tomorrow. Here are some of the sports games that are seeing their prices cut for the busiest shopping day of the year. Walmart and Amazon have the best deals for the EA Sports titles with Target being the place to pick up NBA 2K9 unless you're in the market for a 360 and you can ...
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Nascar Coming To The Wii
The Wiire has news today that EA Sports is developing Nascar for the Wii. Apparently it will not attempt to replicate the Nascar games on the 360 or PS3 and instead will go the route of driving karts, possibly with caricatures of the licensed drivers. No telling yet if heads of drivers will be massively oversized to balance out the cartoonish nature of the karts. While the karts may resemble an idea from Mario Kart, most likely the tracks will remain the same oval shape, true to the NASCAR ...
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NXE Update Improving Game Experiences
One of the anticipated elements to the New Xbox Experience (NXE) is the ability to install the games to the hard drive. While the disc is still required to be in the 360 while playing, drawing from the hard drive is supposed to put less strain on the hardware as well as decrease loading times as the disc isn't spinning or being read. So I thought I would go through and experiment with some of the more recent sports titles to see what if any effect is had by installing the game to the hard...
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EA and Gamestop Team Up For Season Pass?
Making the rounds today is a graphic that details an EA Sports Season Pass that would be available only at Gamestop. According to the details it would cost $20 and then provide 33% off the purchase of all EA Sports titles throughout the year. There are a couple things that seem off about this to me. The first is that the cost of the Season Pass would be equal to the savings on the first game purchased. Generally something like this would be used as an incentive to get consumers to buy mor...
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Fight Night Round 4 Updates
The first official Fight Night Round 4 footage will be shown during the broadcast of Spike TV's Video Game Awards (VGAs). That is held live on December 14th at 9ET/6PT. If you haven't seen the footage that leaked out of a Gamestop convention a couple months ago you can check that out here. Some of the game's developers set up a Youtube channel. For a short time it actually contained a look at in-game Mike Tyson but that was quickly removed. As of now it doesn't have any game videos and pr...
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2K Looking At Micro-Transaction and Subscription Possibilities
Amongst discussion on how multiple companies including EA are attempting to combat the lost revenue from used sales comes more talk on the subject, this time from the head of Take Two Strauss Zelnick. The presentation at the BMO Capital Market's Conference was accompanied by the image above which uses the example of 2K Sports' MLB series and how they could benefit from micro-transactions. When EA Sports canceled many of the PC offerings for this year I predicted a move towards free-to-pla...
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Next EASHL Night
With the NHL 09 patch (details here) now out I wanted to arrange for another EASHL night. Hopefully Club Pasta Padre can string together a couple more wins. So meet up in the the dressing room beginning at 8et/5pt on Friday night. If you would like to join in and need an invite to the club (360) go ahead and leave your gamertag in the comments and I'll get that out before start time. I'm looking at recording at least one of the games and posting it up on the site over the weekend....
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