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  • Giveaway: Choice of Upcoming Sports Game
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    Posted July 24th, 2014 at 11:45 am 231 Comments »
    The semi-regular site giveaways continue with an opportunity to win the choice of Madden NFL 15, NHL 15, FIFA 15, and NBA 2K15 for any platform! Additional giveaways for the four games will take place closer to their respective releases. There are several ways to qualify and each one counts for entries so the more you complete the more chances to win. The giveaway is open now and will run through August 6th when the winner will be randomly selected and contacted for delivery details. Good...
  • Superstar Skill Stick Put On Display in New NHL 15 Video
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    Posted July 23rd, 2014 at 9:00 am 1 Comment »
    EA Sports has released a video showing off the new "Superstar Skill Stick" for NHL 15. The feature allows for greater control and more options by combining the right stick abilities with the enhanced left stick skating, and the ability to chain together a number of moves. Now all the tools of an NHL superstar are in your hands. The revolutionary Skill Stick has evolved to give even more control to the player. Protect the puck, receive passes without breaking stride, and discover an arsenal ...
  • The Golf Club Will Have Cross-Platform Sharing of User-Created Courses
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    Posted July 22nd, 2014 at 6:00 pm 2 Comments »
    HB Studios has announced that The Golf Club will make available all courses designed by users in the "Greg Norman Course Design" feature for download regardless of platform. That means courses that are created on one can be downloaded by someone playing on another. Whether it was made on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, or PC, all user-created courses will be pooled together and accessible to those who owns the game.  (more…)...
  • Emotion and Atmosphere On Display In New Video for FIFA 15
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    Posted July 19th, 2014 at 5:00 pm 2 Comments »
    EA Sports last month released some short clips of gameplay and presentation improvements. Those were just brief glimpses to demonstrate what to expect from the full features list that was revealed during E3. They've gone further now in the area of emotion and intensity, relating both to the players and the crowd, in this latest video. Emotional Intelligence For the first time ever, players have memories and will show emotion based on the context of the match. With over 600 new emotional re...
  • New NHL 15 Video Shows Off Improvements Made to Physics
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    Posted July 16th, 2014 at 11:30 am No Comments »
    EA Sports today released the latest video for NHL 15 this time focusing on the advancements to physics primarily as it relates to collisions and the puck. These are improvements made specific to the PS4 and Xbox One version of the game and won't be realized in PS3 and 360. 12 Player NHL Collision Physics utilizes the power of next generation consoles and the critically-acclaimed NHL Collision Physics system, to put every player on the ice into physics at all times. This means that every ...
  • Press Row Hangout Clips: EA’s Marketing Shift and Taking On Viewer Questions
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    Posted July 14th, 2014 at 2:15 pm 1 Comment »
    The final two segments from the most recent Press Row Hangout relate to the apparent shift in marketing strategy from EA Sports and various topics sent in by viewers. The first video gives consideration to why EA is promoting their upcoming titles differently this year compared to how they have traditionally. Less is being talked about early, recording was not permitted at E3, and the information that is actually being distributed has been fairly low key and based in fundamentals. Is i...
  • Press Row Hangout Clips: Limited Early Madden 15, FIFA 15, and NHL 15 Impressions
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    Posted July 12th, 2014 at 10:15 am 10 Comments »
    The latest Press Row Hangout broadcast live on Friday night and tackled early impressions of Madden NFL 15, FIFA 15, and NHL 15 coming out of an event held by EA Sports and all the videos and information that have released to this point. They've been broken into segments dedicated to each game with the NHL portion somewhat short as the talk ended up spinning-off more towards how EA's marketing strategy appears to have shifted this year across their portfolio of sports titles. Clips fea...
  • NHL 15 Video Spotlights Upgrades Made to Player Visuals and Emotion
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    Posted July 9th, 2014 at 9:30 am 5 Comments »
    With two months to go until release EA Sports has talked quite a bit about NHL 15 but has yet to show much of substance. One brief gameplay video did leak out of E3 with reception to that somewhat mixed. The company is now starting up a series of polished videos to show off various aspects of NHL 15. The first takes a look at the rebuilt player models, jerseys, emotion, and celebrations - most of which debut specifically with the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game. ComplexEmbed.Applica...