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The Xbox One Gives The First Look At The Future Of Sports Video Games
EA Sports had an outsized presence at the Xbox One’s debut today, peeling the tape off something called the Ignite Engine and teasing a “very special relationship” with the console. But it offered few specifics of that beyond some exclusive DLC for the FIFA franchise.
Colonial Marines Should Have Followed The Example Of Sports’ Gaming’s Elite
Inside a publisher or a studio, there are few surprises when a video game bombs in its reviews. Before it goes from gold master to warehouse to retailer, the focus groups are empaneled, the “mock reviewers” are contracted, and their verdicts are in. Everyone knows roughly where the game will land in the all-controlling 100-point scale of Metacritic. It takes hubris and delusion on the scale of Too Human or Kane & Lynch to be blindsided by a bad review score these days.
Four Stories To Follow In A Pivotal New Year For Sports Video Gaming
2K Sports hasn’t said specifically when its infamous exclusive pact with Major League Baseball ends, but it’s a good bet that day comes on Tuesday, January 1, 2013. If someone picks up that licence, it’ll be the first big story of the year for sports video gaming. If no one picks up that licence, it’ll be even bigger.
EA Sports Server Shutdown Next Week Means NBA Live Is Finished
NBA Live 10 is one of six EA Sports titles that will lose online support on January 11, according to a notice from Electronic Arts. While retiring online features for sports titles more than a year old is not uncommon for any sports publisher, killing multiplayer support for NBA Live 10, which released in 2009, is noteworthy as it symbolically means the end of any professional basketball simulation offered by EA Sports.
Despite Three Years Without A Game, The NBA Stands By Its Man At EA
On September 27, EA Sports scrapped NBA Live 13, the second straight cancellation in the series’ troubled history. Quarterly earnings calls are coming soon and many will be listening intently for anything Electronic Arts has to say about an expensive licence, coming to the end of a console generation, that hasn’t produced a retail copy since 2009.
NBA Live 13 Is Delayed, But This Trailer Suggests It Hasn’t Been Cancelled
NBA Live 13 is delayed indefinitely. While EA Sports may say the game isn’t delayed because, technically, it was never given a release date, the publisher today said today it’s giving the NBA Live development team more time to shore up a game that left E3 roundly panned and had gone AWOL in the three months since.
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