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Check Out Blake Griffin’s Best Dunks As If They Happened In The Original NBA Jam

News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming:

• SBNation put together that delightful compilation of chiptunes and pixelated highlights to give us Blake Griffin’s theoretical NBA Jam highlight reel from the 1993 classic. Enjoy.

January 18, 2012
PlayStation

NBA Jam: On Fire Edition Will Get Roster Updates, EA Sports Says

EA Sports has confirmed to Kotaku that NBA Jam: On Fire Edition will be getting a roster update. The publisher’s preceding silence on the subject had led some to believe it had abandoned post-release support for the 2-on-2 arcade basketball game.

October 26, 2011
Retro

See How 1993′s NBA Jam Was Made

We rarely get to see the process by which a video game is pitched to a publisher, even today in an age of developer diaries and all-access marketing. It’s even rarer we get to see how a game was pitched all the way back in the early 90s.

October 10, 2011
PlayStation

It Takes Two To Make NBA Jam Go Right

The inability to switch off between players was one of the few drawbacks of an otherwise rollicking NBA Jam revival last year. It required some clunky manipulation of your starting lineup and defence, for those who actually played it, often left a man open as you instinctively swarmed to the guy your CPU partner was guarding.

September 30, 2011
PlayStation

SSX’s Finest Trade Their Boards For Balls In NBA Jam: On Fire

If you thought Elise, Mac and Kaori were hot stuff on the slopes, wait’ll you get a load of their moves on the court in the NBA Jam: On Fire Edition.

September 16, 2011
PlayStation

Honey Badgers? In NBA Jam? It’s More Likely Than You Think

With the NBA lockout looking like it will wipe out a lot of games this year, some basketball video game makers are looking outside the league’s real-life rosters to create enthusiasm and interest. NBA 2K12 for example, is bringing 15 of the sport’s greatest players to life. NBA Jam‘s going with goddamn honey badgers.

July 28, 2011
PlayStation

Next NBA Jam Designer Hopes Two Million People Are Curious

Trey Smith was showing off the new NBA Jam, subtitled the On Fire Edition at a recent EA gaming showcase. People were playing the new version near him while we chatted about how the new game will have better artificial intelligence. He seemed even more excited that the game is downloadable for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. That had been the plan for last year’s versions, but they came out on disc.

July 14, 2011
News

NBA Jam Creator Leaves EA Sports For Zynga

Mark Turmell, the creator of the NBA Jam series that saw a revival last year on modern consoles, has left EA Sports for the social games developer Zynga, Kotaku has learned.

July 8, 2011
PlayStation

NBA Jam’s Next Offering Allows You To Switch Players

Eighteen screenshots, depicting the NBA Finals matchup of Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd versus LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, herald the coming of NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, due later this year as a downloadable title on Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store.

May 17, 2011
In Real Life

NBA Jam’s Creator Really Did Set Stuff On Fire

You hopefully already know this, but a lot of the truly interesting stuff about games development (and game developers) comes not from the PR-managed machine of an upcoming title, but by scouring the medium’s past. Example: the following story about NBA Jam creator Mark Turmell.

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