In Real Life

When South Park Got An EA Sports Game Pulled Off The Shelves

Long before golfer Tiger Woods thought it’d be a good idea to go sticking his dick in anything with a hole and a pulse, his video game franchise was embroiled in a scandal of a different kind.


June 26, 2011
In Real Life

Don’t Hate The Game, Hate The Player

The lie I faced on the seventh green at Costa Navarino was so steep, it’s a wonder I didn’t need rappelling gear to address the ball. My caddy, who has recommended twisting shots that skip over bunkers and thread between trees, suddenly had no advice. Without any starting point for my read, I had no hope of making this putt in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12.


April 7, 2011
News

Here’s An Unlicensed Game Featuring Tiger Woods At The Masters

The Masters Tournament, which graces Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters (duh), begins with its opening round tomorrow at Augusta National. Hecklers and disturbances are either unanticipated or flat impossible thanks to the golf club’s otherworldly security – in this flash game’s case, a sniper ready to take out any troublemakers.


January 7, 2011
Nintendo

See All 18 Holes Of Augusta National Without Leaving Your Couch

EA Sports today released a complete 18-hole flyover of Augusta National, as it will appear in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters. The publisher has touted a laser scanning technology that delivers the iconic course with unusual fidelity.


January 5, 2011
News

At Long Last, The Masters Come To Video Games

Over the steady march of a dozen years’ progress, video games have brought us to all the sacred places in sports, awarded all their cherished trophies, and shared all their greatest traditions, except for one, A Tradition Unlike Any Other.


December 2, 2010
News

EA Boss Says Tiger Woods Needs To Step Up His Game

Even during a withering sex scandal, EA Sports stuck by Tiger Woods as the face of its golf franchise. Now, however, the company’s CEO says Woods must perform like the world’s No.1 golfer, or risk the company looking elsewhere.


September 22, 2010
News

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 Is Now Move-Enabled

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A title update now live on the PlayStation Network adds PlayStation Move support to a sports game where motion controls make the most sense: golf, specifically Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11.


July 20, 2010
News

Scandal May Have ‘Permanently Damaged’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour

Electronic Arts was one of the few major brands not to run from Tiger Woods during the golfer’s embarrassingly public sex scandal this winter, but that loyalty hasn’t paid off, frets one analyst.


July 7, 2010
News

How Computer Animation Is Changing The News Right Now

In November 2009, golfer Tiger Woods’ life changed forever. So did TV news in Taiwan.


April 28, 2010
News

Play Way More Than 18 Holes With The Raunchy Tiger Woods’ Affair Tour

The face of EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour series is now the unwilling subject of another video game, the adults-only, sexually explicit screw ‘em up Tiger Woods Affair Tour 2010.