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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.
Free-To-Play Football Title Loses Its NFL Licence
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming:
• QuickHit Football had a solid debut year in 2009 and won an NFL licence a year later. Then it lost its director of design, a veteran of the beloved NFL 2K5, and was bought up by Majesco around E3 last year. Now it’s losing the NFL licence that seems to be the holy grail of sports gaming.
Nearly One Million Perfect Games Were Attempted For A Shot At $1m
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Major League Baseball 2K12‘s preliminary round for its $US1 Million Perfect Game Challenge is over, ending at midnight Pacific time on May 1. I’m told 2K Sports is still evaluating all of its data and verifying some late perfect games thrown, but it appears that the field of eight is set.
Don’t Send Your Ace In Pursuit Of Perfection In MLB 2K12
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming:
• More than 629,000 perfect games have been attempted and 555 have been verified as thrown in Major League Baseball 2K12‘s $US1 Million Perfect Game Challenge, which has about 10 days left. Those numbers are the latest available from 2K Sports.
The Spartans Will Fight In The (Correct) Shade In NCAA Football 13
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Here’s something I never really noticed before: Michigan State wore an incorrect green in NCAA Football. Their fans, as you might imagine, take that very seriously.
USC’s Song Girls Finally Immortalised In A Game
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming:
Do little jugs get your attention? No? Well, how about the Song Girls of USC, or the Texas Pom Squad. Or a guy from Michigan staring up the crotch of Paul Bunyan. Trophies and university-specific cheerleaders are part of the coat of polish the NCAA Football 13 gang is applying to this year’s presentation. Details are teased in that video above.
Barry Sanders Advances In The NIT Of Cover Contests
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming:
Vegas Now Taking Bets On Madden’s Cover Contest
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Madden‘s play-in round of voting lasts until next Wednesday. Right now, last year’s finalist Michael Vick is losing to teammate LeSean McCoy; two guys (Brandon Lloyd, Brandon Marshall) who won’t be on their teams when the game releases next year, look to advance, and Las Vegas has Victor Cruz (?!) as the fourth favourite to win it all.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour Resurrects Shaq (Doing Kung) Fu
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Golf is probably the one thing people wouldn’t look silly playing when they play Kinect. Well, EA Sports will fix that, bringing back Shaq Fu (no, really) in this humorous YouTube promotion for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 featuring Woods and Shaquille O’Neal.
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