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EA Sports Didn’t Need The NCAA’s Logo, And Maybe It Didn’t Want It
If you want to see a relic of sports history, dust off a copy of College Football USA ’96. In its final season, the old Southwest Conference appeared for the first and only time in a video game. The next year, four members split to form the Big XII. This game is one of the…
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An Xbox 180 Drags Sports Back From The Future Of Gaming
Until Wednesday there seemed to be very little selling the Xbox One to a sports video gamer. The questionable ability to rent, share or re-sell its games — fundamental to a culture built on annual releases and punching friends on the couch — was only the beginning. It’s a console that cost $US100 more than…
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Oh, By The Way, Don’t Count On A Curtain Call For Video Games’ MVP
Getting an Internet signal inside LA’s Orpheum theatre is always a crapshoot. For years, it’s been both a daydream and a nightmare that I’d be liveblogging Electronic Arts’ E3 keynote as Andrew Wilson or Peter Moore finished EA Sports’ segment and then, pretending to forget something, turned and said, “Oh, by the way.” Then the…
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It Seems Easy, But Tiger’s Greatest Feat Is Damn Hard In A Video Game
In no rec league could I ever throw a no-hitter. Alone on a basketball court I’d need half an hour to score 69 points — and a trampoline to dunk. But I can do all of those things in my living room. Video games give us the conceit of doing the impossible, but only now…