In Real Life

Video Games’ Strangest Disappointment: When The Ref Doesn’t Screw You

This Saturday was about as throwing-things livid I’ve been over a sports contest in a decade. The last time I was this angry was in 2003, when Jorge Posada doubled off of Pedro Martinez to tie the seventh game of the American League Championship Series. I kicked a rubbish bin across the newsroom of the Rocky Mountain News and cursed Grady Little and his mother. Brian Crecente asked the supervising editor to reprimand me.


November 20, 2011
In Real Life

Basketball’s Unhappy November Can’t Be Helped By March Madness

In between two of the most-watched college basketball games ever played in November, the NBA’s Doomsday Clock inched closer to midnight when its players rejected a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum and dissolved their union. It’s the nuclear winter scenario analysts imagined when they pegged worst-case losses at $US40 million for NBA 2K12, the lone video game caught in the crossfire.


March 11, 2011
News

Mod Resurrects March Madness In NBA 2K11

EA Sports’ NCAA Basketball bit the dust after its 2009 release; 2K Sports’ College Hoops 2K series cashed out two years before. With Selection Sunday three days away and March Madness upon us, how’s a gamer to satisfy his basketball jones?


December 17, 2010
News

Another NCAA Player Sues Over His Appearance In Video Games

No NCAA basketball title will release this year, but that doesn’t mean people can’t sue over ones made last year. A former Tennessee basketball player is joining the legal action against the NCAA and EA Sports over the unauthorized use of his likeness.


February 11, 2010
News

This Is The Last Dance For NCAA Basketball

EA Sports has confirmed that it is discontinuing its NCAA Basketball franchise, which next year will leave the sport without a video game for the first time in 12 years.