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In Real Life

It’s In The Game, Unless It’s Outside The Lines

Without fail, every time I bring up this job with folks outside the business, the topical jokes start rolling. Whatever the latest controversy or embarrassment is in sports, people ask if that’s going to be simulated in the next edition of Madden, Tiger Woods or NBA 2K.

March 25, 2011
PlayStation

Fight Night Champion DLC To Include Bare Knuckle Fighting

Fight Night Champion notably included bare-knuckle fighting during the prison chapters of its narrative mode, but the fighters in the main roster didn’t participate in such bouts. Now some will. The game’s first DLC extension, due out next Tuesday, adds bare-knuckle “Old School Rules” to online and offline play.

March 18, 2011
PlayStation

Is This Fight Night Champion’s First DLC Package?

Two weeks ago, a video leaked out legit-looking screenshots claiming to be an alpha build of Fight Night Champion’s first downloadable content. EA Sports is announcing what’s in the first pack tomorrow, but if this video is real, it’s five all-time great fighters, plus Cowboys Stadium as a venue.

March 7, 2011
PlayStation

Community Review: Fight Night Champion

Kotaku AU

I just walked into the office this morning to find a copy of Fight Night Champion sitting on my desk, and I’m positively giddy. My plan this evening? Eat crap loads of Mi Goreng on toast and play this game until I collapse in an MSG-induced coma. Have any of you guys played it yet? Is it worth existing solely on a diet of starch to get more time with the game?

March 4, 2011
PlayStation

Could You Rewrite Fight Night?

The concept behind Fight Night Champion’s narrative “Champion Mode” inspired me when I read of it. I looked forward to it as a breakthrough opportunity for the sports genre. But it served up a tray of disappointingly bland cookie-cut characters and conflicts, and the progression of your career was too short and too rigid. That doesn’t mean it was a bad idea.

March 3, 2011
PlayStation

Fighting On New Terms, But Still A Champion

I’ve taken head butts and held on through jaw-cracking, brain-rattling missiles; I’ve fought against runners and cowards and cheats and made them all pay. Never have I fought in a place this unfair, with these terms dictated to me.

February 18, 2011
PlayStation

The Boxing Game That Starts In Prison Should Be The Better Boxing Game

In the second scene of Fight Night Champion, the most unusual boxing game EA has ever made, you’re getting beat up in a prison bathroom. You’re a guy named Andre Bishop, and you’ve just beaten a neo-Nazi-looking guy fair and square in a bareknuckle fight in the middle of a ring. Prisoners in orange jumpsuits were cheering you on.

February 14, 2011
News

So You Wanna Be A Boxer – Wanna Be The Champ?

Kotaku AU

I’ve played the demo for EA’s upcoming Fight Night Champion and, having spent many an hour pounding on fools in Fight Night Round 4, I was a little bit confused – thankfully the team has released some tutorial vids that help highlight some of the new mechanics, whilst teaching us how to adapt to the new controls.

February 3, 2011
News

Fight Night Champion Demo Now Available On Xbox LIVE

Kotaku AU

It’s been quite the fortnight for demos, with the mega shooter dualtage that is Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm releasing demos recently, but now EA has gone and released yet another – this time for the upcoming Fight Night Champion.

January 30, 2011
News

Fight Night Barely Breaks A Sweat In Multiplayer Demo

Fight Night: Champion’s demo arrives Tuesday, but apparently some in the UK have gotten their hands on it. Notably, the demo will include online multiplayer. This series of videos gives you a look at what to expect from it.

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