As promised, NBA Live 14 pumped out a very large patch today to address the many shortcomings, omissions or problems the title showed at launch. Straight away it includes something that should make the game a lot more understandable: A simple practice mode. » 2/11/14 4:30pm 2/11/14 4:30pm

This weekend NBA Live 14 rolled out a patch, but cautioned it was more of a building-block update, designed mostly to help future patches improve the game more conspicuously. The team also dropped this tutorial video, which is notable because it appears to show a new practice mode. » 12/24/13 6:00pm 12/24/13 6:00pm

NBA Live 14 showed a lot of problems at release a month ago—problems EA Sports vowed to fix through title updates. They rolled out the first patch for the game on Friday and, like everything else with this series for the past three years, it's another promise this will be a good game at some future date. » 12/22/13 11:20am 12/22/13 11:20am

Maybe people aren't cooing over it the way they are the NBA 2K14 hype reel released Thursday, but NBA Live 14's gameplay trailer does have its virtues. » 10/19/13 1:00pm 10/19/13 1:00pm

NBA Live 14 announced its launch date earlier this week—Nov. 19, which is curious, as that is four days after the PlayStation 4 launches and still there's a PS4/NBA Live 14 launch bundle (currently sold out) due to drop on Nov. 15. » 9/21/13 6:00pm 9/21/13 6:00pm

Hall-of-fame stars from the NBA's past will be a part of NBA Live 14, though exactly how isn't known, as one of the game's designers took to Twitter to roll out some early details of a title that will have a lot to prove when it arrives. » 6/29/13 4:30pm 6/29/13 4:30pm

Reading between the lines of an open letter by NBA Live's new executive producer, one understands that whatever comes next in that franchise is really no continuation of last year's effort, which, like its 2010 predecessor, was aborted a few weeks before its assumed date of release. » 6/22/13 3:00pm 6/22/13 3:00pm

In 2010, EA Sports brought NBA Elite 11 to E3 as a shootaround demo only. I remember this vividly. You played as one player in a practice setting, learning the timing of the new stick-shooting controls. If you still have the ill-fated NBA Elite 11 demo, go to its practice mode, that's what we saw three years ago. » 6/15/13 1:00pm 6/15/13 1:00pm

Back under new management, EA Sports' beleaguered NBA Live series will return late this year only on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game promises a new ballhandling and dribbling engine called "bounceTek" that you can see in this video. » 6/10/13 4:44pm 6/10/13 4:44pm

NBA Live 14, assuming it ships, figures to add an Ultimate Team mode, if a developer's bio is any indication. I asked and EA Sports said no comment. If true, it probably means they're building a full retail product, not the $20 downloadable that NBA Live 13 was rumored to be. » 5/01/13 10:40am 5/01/13 10:40am