In Real Life

Benched For Poor Sales, Could Kickstarter Get Niche Sports Titles Back Into The Game?

Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Production team (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend) wanted to make a new point-and-click adventure game.


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.”


May 26, 2011
News

NHL 2K12 Ain’t Happening

2K Sports yesterday confirmed that NHL 2K12 will not be published on any console, likely ending that simulation’s run.


September 7, 2010

NHL 2K11 Review: The Second Shift Takes The Ice

2K Sports made one of the more intriguing – and gutsy – calls in sports publishing when it shelved NHL 2K on the PS3 and Xbox 360 for a year, going Wii-only for NHL 2K11.


December 19, 2009
News

NHL 2K’s Absence From Take-Two Report May Mean Its End

Take-Two’s quarterly report yesterday included a list of “key titles announced to date for the remainder of fiscal 2010″. It didn’t include NHL 2K11, which some are taking as the death of that franchise.