Get over here! Dwight Howard of the NBA's Houston Rockets is apparently a Mortal Kombat enthusiast. Here he is re-enacting Scorpion's signature move during pre-game introductions against Brooklyn on Friday. [NBA on YouTube]
The Xbox 360 Had 18 Games At Launch. Here's What They Looked Like.
The Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005. It had 18 launch titles. Now that the Xbox One has been revealed along with a few of its launch games, let's take a look back at the launch titles the 360 had, and see how they hold up.
The Most Hilarious Sports Game Glitches, Now In Motion
The constant progression of annual sport titles has another advantage besides the games getting more and more realistic every year. It creates moments where the players go nuts—suddenly, our ordinary game turns itself into Dragon Ball Z or Super Smash TV. We selected below a few of these from the last few years' FIFA, …
The Brooklyn Nets' Brook Lopez talks about his love for Sega Genesis games and Sonic the Hedgehog.
As Time Runs Out on the Xbox 360, Look For a Conservative Gameplan…
Despite Three Years Without a Game, the NBA Stands By Its Man at EA
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Hey, LucasArts—How About Making a Star Wars NBA Game?
Hi Owen,
Mate, would love to see LucasArts bring out a Star Wars sports game, featuring arcade-style NBA, NFL, baseball and NHL. I would love to…
British Commentary Makes Everything Funnier, Especially Basketball
Check out this video of him commentating on an NBA 2k12-simulated matchup of last week's NBA All Star…
Should a Video Game Have Predicted the Rise of Jeremy Lin?
Ordinarily, NBA 2K12 updates its rosters once a week. This week, it got not one, but three revisions in the span of four days. Jeremy Lin had a hand in all three.
Video Games Tell Us Who''ll Win the NBA's Christmas Tipoff and College…
Pro basketball resumes on Christmas Day; college football will begin staging its major postseason contests eight days later. This has, perhaps unintentionally, engendered competing five-game simulations from 2K Sports and EA Sports, makers of NBA 2K12 and NCAA Football 12. Want to know who wins the big matchups? We've…
Augmented Reality NBA App Makes You the King of Someone's Driveway
An NBA-branded augmented-reality game released today for Android and iOS devices, promises to make you the King of the Court at any number of real-world basketball locations around you. So far I'm the King of a neighboring cul-de sac and a Wendy's parking lot.
If This is the Only NBA on Your TV All Year, NBA 2K12 Supplies the…
Baseball parks' larger, varying dimensions and nonstandard playing areas make for unique camera angles, familiar for fans who watch the local broadcasts but markedly different to others. MLB 2K11 (and MLB The Show 11) sought to replicate this in this year's game
Locked out LeBron Finds Work in Madden
With the first two weeks of the NBA season canceled thanks to the lockout, some players have gone looking for alternative employment. Gordon Hayward of the Utah Jazz, for example, was in a Starcraft pro gaming tournament this past weekend
It Takes Two to Make NBA Jam Go Right
The inability to switch off between players was one of the few drawbacks of an otherwise rollicking NBA Jam revival last year. It required some clunky manipulation of your starting lineup and defense, for those who actually played it, often left a man open as you instinctively swarmed to the guy your CPU partner was…
Every Night is Basketball Appreciation Night in NBA 2K12
It is 2 a.m. and I'm going to score 60 points with Dell Curry. Having unlocked the 1992-1993 Charlotte Hornets—you had better believe it was the first thing I did in NBA 2K12—I've started Dell in place of Kendall Gill and he is, well, he's beating his son. Stephen Curry's Golden State Warriors have no answer for Mister …
I Could Never Stay Mad at You, NBA 2K12
NBA 2K12 has had a rough couple of weeks. A lot of the goodwill built up in August
NBA 2K12 Debuts on iPhone Next Week
2K Sports' award-winning NBA 2K series will debut on iOS mobile devices next week with NBA 2K12 the same day the title releases on consoles and PC. The game will include the popular "Jordan Challenge" that made last year's NBA 2K11 such a hit.
NBA 2K12's Legendary Teams Are Pay-to-Play for Online Multiplayer
Earlier this month Kotaku reported, per 2K Sports itself, that the historic teams featured in NBA 2K12's "NBA's Greatest" mode would not be available for online play. That turns out not to be the case. A Twitter photo from someone with the game already shows that gamers can take the 1993 Chicago Bulls or 1986 Boston…
NBA 2K12 is not a "Roster Update"—and That's the Problem
Roster update. In sports video games, it's not a selling point as much as it is a term of abuse, one that implies that accurate rosters in annual titles have almost no value to a discerning video gamer. Well, in a couple of weeks, we may find out how important this baseline expectation really is.
NBA 2K12 Demo Arrives Next Week
2K Sports just announced on the Facebook page for NBA 2K12 that the game's demo will arrive on Tuesday, for both PS3 and Xbox 360, two weeks before its Oct. 4 release.
NBA Boss isn't the First League Commissioner to Appear in a Video Game…
Some ramped-up role-playing sequences in NBA 2K12's "My Player" career mode have delivered an unlikely first: David Stern, the NBA commissioner, is the first league officer—to anyone's recollection—to appear, both in voice and in motion capture, in a video game.
NBA 2K12 Offers In-Game Ads You May Actually Enjoy Watching
That's because you'll star in them. In the "My Player" career mode, if you become a superstar you'll be pitched to appear in official league advertisements, including the league's well known "Where Amazing Happens," campaign, with you as the amazing happening.
Rookies Won't Appear in NBA 2K12 Until the Lockout is Over
Interesting tidbit surfaced from a hands-on post about NBA 2K12 over at Operation Sports: None of the rookies taken in the NBA Draft will appear in the game until the league resolves its labor dispute with the players' union.
Peter Moore: EA Sports' NBA Game "Will Take a Few Years" Before It…
Though recently promoted to Electronic Arts' chief operating officer, EA Sports' old boss, Peter Moore, still is involved with products coming out of that division. And in an interview with IndustryGamers, he said he doesn't expect their next NBA simulation, due in 2012 after a two-year hiatus, to compete with NBA 2K…
Sure, It's Hype, but NBA 2K12's Latest Trailer is Still Pretty Badass
This is all marketing, OK? This is a sizzle trailer, even if it is two-and-a-half minutes long and packed with gameplay (and one outstanding choice of music). But in addition to hyping the living hell out of NBA 2K12 it does offer a few things of value: One, a look at the presentation of old-time games within the…
Achievement List Hints at New Features, Including "Online Association,"…
In my preview on Wednesday
NBA 2K12 Still Adding Players to Its Classic Teams
Interesting tweet out of 2K Sports' digital marketing manager, Ronnie Singh, this afternoon: "We have just secured the NBA 2K12 rights to '93 Denver Nuggets LaPhonso Ellis and added him to roster."
Bonus NBA 2K12 Teams Don't Require Preorder, Will Be In All Retail…
Correcting an earlier misconception we reported: NBA 2K12 will offer codes for two classic teams, the 1990-91 Golden State Warriors and the 2001-2002 Sacramento Kings. These codes will be printed and inserted into all retail copies of the game, and will be available through all retail outlets, but there will be a…