All NBA Logos Redesigned With Pokemon
Micah Coles gave all NBA teams (plus the Sonics) Pokemon-themed redesigns:
Yao Ming Next To An Average Person Is Amazing, As Usual
It's not news that Yao Ming is a gigantic human being, but it's still astonishing when he's juxtaposed with a regular-sized person. Take this AP photo from the All-Star Game, and know that it wasn't edited at all.
NBA 2K14 Mod Replaces Everyone With Superheroes
Marvel and DC superheroes in a modded NBA 2k14... just what basketball needed! A modder named MGX has done just that with the PC version of the game, adding 25 well-known heroes to the roster.
'Nickname Jerseys' Do Some Strange Things to NBA Live
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Want to see something weird? Boot up NBA Live and make sure to install the latest roster update. Now select either the Miami Heat or Brooklyn Nets. Go out to the court, and LeBron James' player indicator now says "King James."
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Playing with the Houston Rockets shouldn't mean blasting off like a shuttle across the basketball court. That's the glitchy, NBA 2K14 way of avoiding interviews. But hey, at least they've got LeBron's running speed correct!
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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]
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The Xbox 360 Had 18 Games At Launch. Here's What They Looked Like.
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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
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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…
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Despite Three Years Without a Game, the NBA Stands By Its Man at EA
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Here are the Christmas Day Uniforms the NBA Doesn't Want You to Open…
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Hey, LucasArts—How About Making a Star Wars NBA Game?
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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 …
British Commentary Makes Everything Funnier, Especially Basketball
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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?
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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…
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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
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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…
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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. But just because the court dimensions are uniform and…
Locked out LeBron Finds Work in Madden
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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, just barely finishing out of the money.