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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 »
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Maybe The Greatest Of All Time, But Not In Its Time
4:00AM Owen Good | Of the major game-of-the-year awards given out each year, no sports title has ever taken top overall honours. And yet five years later, there is one still talked about in ways that year’s winners are not. More »
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NCAA Football, And The Science Of Subjectivity
4:00AM Owen Good | With true-to-life fidelity, my most recent season simulation in NCAA Football 10 found Boise State losing a trap game late in the season and, as the token BCS Buster from a minor conference, paying for it dearly in the polls. More »
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With NCAA 10, EA Guns For Two Shining Moments
3:00AM Owen Good | Connor Dougan had me at “Nana-na-na-na-NA-na-naaaahhh!” Anyone who’s hoisted a driveway three has hummed a TV sports anthem to set it up, and that one’s the CBS Road to the Final Four theme, one of two in NCAA Basketball 10. More »
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Re-Creating A Stadium Before Its First Pitch Is Thrown
3:00AM Owen Good | Brendan Harris’ groundout to end Minnesota’s American League Divisional Series with New York started a 171-day clock until the christening of the Twins’ new ballpark, Target Field. Sony’s MLB The Show will have to have the grounds ready much sooner. More »
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It’s Not In The Game — Should It Be?
3:00AM Owen Good | What do straight-ahead kicks, busted rackets and plaid jackets have in common? They’re all on a list of completely amateurish and uninvited suggestions for what should go in next year’s sports titles. More »
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Virtual Golfer Looks Back On—And Ahead To—His Tournament Career
3:00AM Owen Good | You could say Steven Sobe knows when to go out on top. When you’ve made your living playing video games on a tournament circuit, it’s certainly a sense that will serve you well. More »
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What Makes A “Real” Sport In An Unreal World?
2:00AM Owen Good | Twenty years ago I learned how to rename the rosters for Accolade’s Hardball! and rig the players’ performances. Every player would be a 40-40 man, I boasted to Dad. “Not really interested,” he said, “It’s not real baseball.” More »
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Where Madden Plugs A Gap, Another Sees A Running Lane
2:00AM Owen Good | In building a football video game without a full NFL licence, Jeff Anderson discovered his toughest pitch wasn’t to investors, but the press. “They’d say, ‘Don’t you understand? You’re not supposed to be making a football product. That’s EA’s job.’” More »
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