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LeBron James Runs Headlong Into The Uncanny Valley With NBA 2K14
Already a great-looking series, NBA 2K14 has only begun to show off what it can do with the PlayStation 4.
2K Sports Duct-Tapes MLB 2K13 To NBA 2K13 And Sells It For $US70
Last year, 2K Sports did a shrewd thing, bootstrapping its flagging MLB 2K series to its best-in-class NBA 2K in a combo package announced a month before the baseball game was due for release. The publisher is doing the same thing again this year, but listing the bundle for $US10 more.
NBA 2K13′s Replay Cam Gets Rid Of Its Own Red Ring Of Death
For as long as I have sought to illustrate posts with screengrabs from the NBA 2K series, I have despised its replay camera. Dedicated guys like MessenjahMatt can still produce virtuoso recreations of famous Air Jordan commercials using the game’s PC version, but for the rest of us shlubs on a console, getting a Sports Illustrated cover-quality shot of Blake Griffin water-poloing a dunk over Pau Gasol remains a distant dream.
When Only 42 People Are Playing Madden On The Wii U, It’s Not A Sports Console
Around halftime of a game on an NFL Sunday is a good time to take the temperature of the Madden NFL crowd. It’s like the water department analysis that shows everyone flushing the john when the Super Bowl goes to the break. In this case, online gamers, many of whom have their consoles running and connected to the servers throughout, often jump in for a quick match during the network highlights and recaps. Here was the picture on the Xbox 360 at midafternoon: 31,080 Madden players connected to the EA Sports servers; 2,978 were in a game. On the Wii U: 42 were online. One was in a game.
President Obama Is Not Plugging NBA 2K13 With His #my2K Campaign
On a long drive back yesterday evening I heard over the radio that President Obama, using the White House bully pulpit in deficit negotiations, had opened a social media campaign designed to pressure Congressional Republicans. If tax cuts set to expire on January 1 do so, middle-class families would take a cash hit of around $US2000 in 2013. So the president’s media folks created #my2K as a Twitter hashtag. Use it, he said, to tell everyone what #my2K means to you and your family.
What’s Going On With NBA 2K13′s Roster Update?
The state of NBA 2K13‘s roster update has been uncommonly bad to date. In the most recent episode of the Press Row Podcast, Operation Sports’ normally placid Steve Noah needed bleeping when discussing the slowness and inaccuracy of the update. “There’s been three players added in the latest update,” Steve said, in a podcast recorded on Sunday. “Thirty are missing.”
#1 In The Polls Doesn’t Mean Much In Sports Video Gaming Either
Around sports video gaming’s water cooler, much is being made of NBA 2K13 clocking in as October’s No. 1 seller on the NPD charts, and it is indeed an affirmation for sports video gamers as a whole. Sports video games are, culturally, treated as an outlier in core video gaming, yet they routinely send two, three or even four titles to the NPD’s top 10, a kind of Dow Jones Industrial Average for the gaming industry.
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