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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 »
News
NHL 10 Already Picking The Penguins To Win The Cup
5:00AM Michael McWhertor | EA Sports is getting a very early start on calling the 2010 NHL championships, pegging the Pittsburgh Penguins to repeat as Stanley Cup winners this season. That means bad news for NHL 10 cover boy Patrick Kane. More »
Features
So I Went To A Fight, And A Video Game Broke Out …
2:00AM Owen Good | When Oregon’s LeGarrette Blount falcon-punched Boise State’s Byron Hout to begin the college football season (and end his own career) it made me wonder: Why don’t we see that in NCAA 10? It’s in the game, right? More »
Hands On
NHL 2K10 Preview: Zamboni Smackdown
10:40AM AJ Glasser | One of my worst nightmares—next to the one about a high school reunion—is attending a preview event where I’m the only girl and I have no idea how to play the game. More »
News
Who’s Who In The NHL 2K10 Player Ratings
12:00PM Owen Good | 2K Sports gave out its player ratings today for NHL 2K10 and, fun-with-spreadsheets style, we present you this year’s superlatives—dubious included—among the 1225 players on this year’s roster. More »
Culture
Terms That Are, And Are Not, In NHL 2K10
9:30AM Owen Good | Talking to Randy Hahn for yesterday’s column about announcing NHL 2K10, I tested how deep his vocabulary runs in the game. I threw out a dozen hockey terms – some basic, others esoteric – and asked Hahn if he’d said them. More »
Media
Lights Down Low For NHL 2K10
8:30AM Owen Good | Ten new screens from NHL 2K10 went out the door yesterday, spotlighting pre-game festivities at four arenas, and closeups of some league standouts whose names you’ll be hearing quite a bit. More »
Culture
NHL 10 Coverboy Arrested Over 20 Cents
9:30AM Owen Good | Who knows what Patrick Kane was paid to appear on the NHL 10 cover, but it was probably more than 20 cents. So it’s hard to fathom why a 20-year-old zillionaire athlete would deck a cabbie over two dimes. More »
Media
NHL 10 Gets In Your Face
12:40AM Mike Fahey | Producer David Littman takes us through some of the new features coming in EA Sports’ latest trip to the most violent ice skating rink ever. More »
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