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Leaked Survey Tips Off MLB 2K10 Cover Athlete

10:30AM Owen Good | A tipster taking a marketing survey was asked to judge four potential covers for next year’s MLB 2K10. The Tampa Bay Rays’ third baseman Evan Longoria is on all of them. More »
Features

Maybe The Greatest Of All Time, But Not In Its Time

4:00AM Owen Good | Of the major game-of-the-year awards given out each year, no sports title has ever taken top overall honours. And yet five years later, there is one still talked about in ways that year’s winners are not. More »
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NBA Live 10 And NBA 2K10: It’s Fargin’ War

2:40PM Owen Good | Because of exclusive arrangements and wide disparities in quality, pro basketball is really the only sports game where there’s real head-to-head competition. And it’s getting nasty between 2K Sports and EA Sports. More »
Culture

Will Monkeyshines At ESPN Throw A Monkeywrench In A Video Game?

4:30PM Owen Good | Steve Phillips, formerly of ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, lost that gig in a sex scandal that you might have read about. He was also the colour analyst in MLB 2K9. That title doesn’t feature in-game boinkable PAs, but will he stay? More »
Hands On

NBA 2K10 Review: Ball, You — Man!

3:00AM Owen Good | Without question, the NBA is the crown jewel of the 2K Sports catalogue, whos NBA 2K10 released Tuesday to the expectations faced by a clear winner – stick with what works, or keep up the full-court press? More »
News

2K Sports Indicates NBA 2K10 Patch Coming In Two Weeks

1:00PM Owen Good | Framerate and connectivity issues have plagued NBA 2K10 since its release date Tuesday, and 2K Sports have put out word that they are working to put out an update fast and correct multiplayer issues even faster. More »
Hands On

NHL 2K10 Review: Thin-Ice Capades

9:00AM Owen Good | The National Hockey League dropped the puck on a new season Thursday night, turning sports fans’ thoughts to ice — and to hard hitting, fast-paced one-timer-from-the-slot action, qualities that 2K’s NHL title can certainly supply on a console. More »
Media

NBA 2K10 Shows Rasheed Wallace Having Fred Sanford Heart Attack

8:00AM Owen Good | Boston’s Kevin Garnett finishes off the alley-oop in this latest gameplay trailer, and newly acquired Rasheed Wallace gets up to inform Elizabeth he’s coming to join her. Another solid minute of dunk animations and gameplay from NBA 2K10.
Media

Putting Up Airballs—And Making Them—In NBA 2K10

11:00AM Owen Good
2K Sports’ NBA game, like its NHL counterpart, comes to the Wii for the first time with this year’s edition. This trailer gives a look at the motion controls which, for the most part, seem reasonably intuitive. More »
Features

Where Madden Plugs A Gap, Another Sees A Running Lane

2:00AM Owen Good | In building a football video game without a full NFL licence, Jeff Anderson discovered his toughest pitch wasn’t to investors, but the press. “They’d say, ‘Don’t you understand? You’re not supposed to be making a football product. That’s EA’s job.’” More »