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With NCAA 10, EA Guns For Two Shining Moments

3:00AM Owen Good | Connor Dougan had me at “Nana-na-na-na-NA-na-naaaahhh!” Anyone who’s hoisted a driveway three has hummed a TV sports anthem to set it up, and that one’s the CBS Road to the Final Four theme, one of two in NCAA Basketball 10. More »

Double The Presentation In NCAA Hoops 10

3:30PM Owen Good | No lie, the inclusion of CBS’s announcers and graphics package with ESPN’s for NCAA Basketball 10 fires me up. A dual-network presentation agreement is unprecedented, and EA Sports’ development blog gives a little more insight into the effort that required. More »

NCAA Basketball 10 Finds Two Booth Teams Way Better Than One

4:30PM Owen Good | OK, I totally missed this yesterday. Remember the CBS Sports presentation package for NCAA Basketball 10? Looks like that’s for the postseason and your big Saturday afternoon national game. ESPN’s crew has you covered for Big Monday and Rivalry Week. More »

Star Trek D-A-C Preview: Boldly Going Where Others Have Before

10:20AM AJ Glasser | Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network lend themselves to quick, pretty games with multiplayer – and that’s exactly what Star Trek D-A-C aims to be. More »

The Amazing Race To Become The Average Game

2:40AM Mike Fahey | CBS and Ludia have teamed up for an exciting race through exotic locales, developing video games based off the Emmy Award-winning reality show The Amazing Race. More »

New CSI: NY Game Lets You Play TV Characters

7:20AM Stuart Houghton | CSI Fans always a seem a little ghoulish to me. Admit it – part of the fun is in the increasingly intricate forms of death and the kind forensic detail that could give George Romero the willies. It’s not clear yet how much corpse-rummaging will be involved in the new CSI: NY game from Ubisoft, but what you will get — for the first time in a CSI game — is the chance to play some of the actual characters from the show. Five new cases have been created by writers from the show and then illustrated in a new ‘graphic novel’ style of cartoony animation. It looks quite nice, although I would be hard pressed to identify that guy as Gary Sinese without the caption. Maybe there is some kind of likeness licensing issue. A new interrogation feature lets you keep pushing suspects in different directions to wear them down and ferret out the info you need. Other than that it looks like minigame business as usual trying to triangulate bullet trajectories, reconstruct evidence and crack codes. Crack the case with new ‘CSI: NY’ game [Monsters and Critics] More »

Breaking: CBS Snags GameSpot In $US 1.8 Billion CNET Acquisition

12:40AM Leigh Alexander | CBS Corporation just announced an agreement to buy CNET for $US 1.8 billion dollars. Through the deal, all of CNET’s network sites, including GameSpot, TV.com mp3.com, CNET news.com, UrbanBaby, CHOW, Search.com, BNET, MySimon and TechRepublic all become property of CBS. CBS’ existing online network already includes CBS.com, CBSSports.com, CBSCollegeSports.com, MaxPreps.com, CBSNews.com, last.fm, Wallstrip, MobLogic, and the CBS Radio and CBS Television Stations digital media platforms. CBS says its distribution net, the Audience Network, comprises 300 partner sites and reaches 82% of U.S. web users. “CNET Networks operates some of the most important premium online brands, serving the most sought after online audiences,” said CNET CEO Neil Ashe. “Today’s announcement brings together two organisations that complement each other and working with Leslie, Quincy and the talented people at CBS, we look forward to taking our business and our brands to the next level.” Full announcement follows the jump. More »