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News

Damned If You Demo, Damned If You Don’t

As of today, there are at least seven Youtube videos, all with more than 100,000 views, tracking pratfalls and slapstick glitches found in FIFA 12 — the latest entry in the most acclaimed and respected sports video game series of the past three years. All of these come from regular users playing a demo version that released two weeks ago.

September 5, 2011
Xbox

Peter Moore: EA Sports’ NBA Game "Will Take A Few Years" Before It Competes With NBA 2K

Though recently promoted to Electronic Arts’ chief operating officer, EA Sports’ old boss, Peter Moore, still is involved with products coming out of that division. And in an interview with IndustryGamers, he said he doesn’t expect their next NBA simulation, due in 2012 after a two-year hiatus, to compete with NBA 2K

May 29, 2011
In Real Life

You Can Have Any Sports Video Game You Want, But There’s Only One

About this time last year, at E3, I was chewing the fat with a 2K Sports representative about NBA 2K11 which already looked to be the monster it would become. Long dominant in the pro basketball genre, the game with Michael Jordan on its cover was going to be 2K’s Sunday punch to EA Sports. “That’s the idea,” the guy told me. “Get an exclusive deal without paying for it.”

April 10, 2011
In Real Life

No Strikes, But One Out As Labour Unrest Hovers Over Video Games

For a brief moment Tuesday, I wasn’t sure we’d be seeing any basketball video game this year. I’d taken for granted that NBA 2K12 would release, a death-and-taxes sure thing in October for more than 10 years.

April 6, 2011
News

NBA Elite Takes The Year Off, New NBA Jam Coming

After the disastrous, last minute cancellation of NBA Elite 11, Electronic Arts is keeping its basketball sim on the bench for another year, saying that it won’t ship a new entry in the NBA Live/NBA Elite franchise until the fall of 2012.

February 25, 2011
Mobile

There’s Still A Market For NBA Elite 11

In sports collectibles, one company’s mistake is another man’s fortune. (Ask Billy Ripken.) Five months after NBA Elite 11′s embarrassing cancellation, copies of the game are still circulating over eBay – as well as box art, download cards, and other mementoes of the game that never was.

November 22, 2010
News

EA Sports On NBA Elite: "It Was Just Going To Be A Bad Game"

With NBA Jam on shelves and earning praise (deservedly), EA Sports is being a little more candid about NBA Elite, the canceled title and Jam’s original dancing partner.

October 8, 2010
News

NBA Elite 11 Coming This Month – For iPhone 4

EA Sports’ decision to indefinitely delay NBA Elite 11 doesn’t affect plans for the mobile version of the game. It will arrive later this month for iPhone and iPod Touch and will take advantage of the iPhone 4′s high-quality display.

October 3, 2010

Elite’s Meltdown May Get More Into A Jam — But Not On The Wii

Coming back from E3 in June, I decided I’d seen my excuse to go get a Wii. NBA Jam, which we’d given a best-of nomination, and which was absolutely thronged inside Electronic Arts’ booth, open to close.

October 2, 2010
News

Someone Claims To Have A Retail Disc Of NBA Elite 11

NBA Elite 11 was indefinitely postponed on Monday, a week before its commercial release. I didn’t receive any disc pre-release (for review), but conceivably they might exist somewhere in the wild. One allegedly just sold on eBay for $US255.

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