basketball
In Real Life

China Is Linsane. It’s Trying To Claim Jeremy Lin.

If you’re a basketball fan, or a New Yorker, you’ve definitely heard about Linsanity. It’s the underdog story of a Chinese American Harvard graduate being undrafted and cut from NBA teams before exploding, in well “Linsanity”. And for the past two week, it has been the talk of the sports world. No one saw him coming, not even NBA 2K12.

December 17, 2011
In Real Life

Guy Utterly Destroys An Arcade Basketball Machine

This dude takes arcade basketball to the next level. He went through the effort of hijacking all of the extra basketballs in the arcade, and then proceeds to hurl rocks like a champion.

October 27, 2011
PlayStation

If This Is The Only NBA On Your TV All Year, NBA 2K12 Supplies The Proper Camera Angle

Baseball parks’ larger, varying dimensions and nonstandard playing areas make for unique camera angles, familiar for fans who watch the local broadcasts but markedly different to others. MLB 2K11 (and MLB The Show 11) sought to replicate this in this year’s game.

October 14, 2011
In Real Life

Locked Out LeBron Finds Work In Madden

With the first two weeks of the NBA season canceled thanks to the lockout, some players have gone looking for alternative employment. Gordon Hayward of the Utah Jazz, for example, was in a Starcraft pro gaming tournament this past weekend, just barely finishing out of the money.

October 13, 2011
PlayStation

NBA 2K12: The Kotaku Review

Midway through an early season Hornets-Heat contest the screen cuts to a promotion telling me Friday night, Kobe Bryant and the Lakers take on the Denver Nuggets at Staples centre. Sounds like a good game, I think to myself. What time is that on? 7.30pm, the screen tells me.

October 10, 2011
PlayStation

It Takes Two To Make NBA Jam Go Right

The inability to switch off between players was one of the few drawbacks of an otherwise rollicking NBA Jam revival last year. It required some clunky manipulation of your starting lineup and defence, for those who actually played it, often left a man open as you instinctively swarmed to the guy your CPU partner was guarding.

October 5, 2011
PlayStation

Every Night Is Basketball Appreciation Night In NBA 2K12

It is 2am and I’m going to score 60 points with Dell Curry. Having unlocked the 1992-1993 Charlotte Hornets — you had better believe it was the first thing I did in NBA 2K12 — I’ve started Dell in place of Kendall Gill and he is, well, he’s beating his son.

September 30, 2011
In Real Life

I Could Never Stay Mad At You, NBA 2K12

NBA 2K12 has had a rough couple of weeks. A lot of the goodwill built up in August for the game’s nostalgic “NBA’s Greatest” mode was washed out by news of lockout-frozen rosters and repackaged premium DLC. And then Kurtis Blow comes up over the speakers, and Dikembe wags his finger at you, and you find yourself willing to forgive a lot.

Mobile

NBA 2K12 Debuts On iPhone Next Week

2K Sports’ award-winning NBA 2K series will debut on iOS mobile devices next week with NBA 2K12 the same day the title releases on consoles and PC. The game will include the popular “Jordan Challenge” that made last year’s NBA 2K11 such a hit.

September 29, 2011
News

NBA 2K12′s Legendary Teams Are Pay-To-Play For Online Multiplayer

Earlier this month Kotaku reported, per 2K Sports itself, that the historic teams featured in NBA 2K12‘s “NBA’s Greatest” mode would not be available for online play. That turns out not to be the case.

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