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NCAA Basketball 10 Review: Some Shining Moments
4:00AM Owen Good | As the year’s last title in North America’s major team sports, NCAA Basketball 10 faces why-buy questions that NCAA Football and NBA Live just don’t. This year EA Canada seeks to answer them with two networks broadcasting from your living room. More »
Culture
NFL Head Of Refs Runs Replay With 360 Controller
10:30AM Owen Good | Every week Mike Pereira, the NFL’s chief of officiating goes over some of the league’s more controversial calls and, as hawkeyed reader Matt M. spotted, he does so with the aid of an Xbox 360 controller. More »
Culture
Morale Booster Connects Troops With NFLers On Xbox Live
7:00AM Owen Good | Members of the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers engaged US soldiers stationed in Iraq in a Guitar Hero battle, which would have been a heart-warming story if brickheaded quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hadn’t called the game “Rock Band” on the teevee. More »
Features
No Less Of A Memory — The Human Drama Of Video Game Sports
4:00AM Owen Good | Some video game sports moments are so indelible we remember and narrate them the same way we do the ones from real life. More »
News
Modern Warfare 2 Deployed To NASCAR Paint Job
10:00AM Michael McWhertor | Just as DJ Hero, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Guitar Hero have done before it, Modern Warfare 2 will grace the chassis of GameStop’s NASCAR Nationwide Series entry car. It’ll do so this weekend, too! More »
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Lacrosse Title Debuts On Xbox Live Indie Channel
2:00PM Owen Good | Absolutely, it’s an exciting and physical sport. But even lacrosse fans admit the game has a niche following. But lacrosse does have its own video game now, which just went up on Xbox Live yesterday. Suck on that, water polo! More »
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Free-to-Play Madden Alternative Inks Four More Celebs
1:40PM Owen Good | Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online fantasy sports/RPG hybrid Kotaku profiled two months ago, has signed agreements with four more coaches to use their likenesses as opposing AIs within the game. More »
Culture
American League’s Best Pitcher Is A Warcraft Player
2:00PM Owen Good | Kansas City’s Zack Greinke locked up Cy Young Award as the American League’s top pitcher, but he never gave much thought to his shot at the hardware. “I’ve been playing this World of Warcraft game,” he told the hometown paper. More »
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Leaked Survey Tips Off MLB 2K10 Cover Athlete
10:30AM Owen Good | A tipster taking a marketing survey was asked to judge four potential covers for next year’s MLB 2K10. The Tampa Bay Rays’ third baseman Evan Longoria is on all of them. More »
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