Archive for the ‘ Basketball ’ Category

LeBron gets Bieber’d…and it’s epic

By now I’m sure you’ve seen all the fuss with Justin Bieber and the 800% slowdown “mix” of his single “U Smile, I Smile”. Yes, the song gets stretched out too an epic 30+ minutes long and sounds something close to being out in the middle of the ocean at night, swimming with a pack [ READ MORE ]

EA drops a bunch of release dates

Shoppers at Amazon.com may have noticed a slew of new release dates for NHL 11, NBA Live 11 and FIFA 11. According to the retailer EA will ship NHL 11 for the Xbox 360 and PS3 on September 7. The MSRP remains the expected $59.99. NBA Live 11 will release on October 5th – the same day [ READ MORE ]

2K goes full speed with NBA 2K11

(Editor’s note: Yes, I’m back from vacation! Missed you guys!) It’s never too early to get amped up for the next round of hoops games, and in 2K’s case, they are hitting the ground running with release dates for NBA 2K11 already in tow (and we just started the first round of the playoffs…) According to Gamestop.com, [ READ MORE ]

New College Basketball title in the works

Admin Studios, recently founded by Noah Acheson, (of High Heat Baseball, 3D0 fame) has announced their foray into the college hoops world with the aptly titled College Basketball 2011. The game will fill the void left by EA’s NCAA Basketball series, the only publisher of NCAA basketball games since 2K left the market after College [ READ MORE ]

Larry’s legend has gone to the birds…

OK, my first thought when I saw Hall of Fame: Ultimate Hoops Challenge come across the release date calendar was, wow, with NBA Jam now in the fray, maybe the Wii will get a title to complement the old Jordan vs. Bird: One on One classic NES title. Heck, Hall of Fame even has Larry [ READ MORE ]

TheSportsGamer atwitter 3/23

Time for a look at the latest twitters and tweets in the sports gaming world on Tuesday… Big news for Madden fans as EA released its first detailed info about the new Madden NFL 11 game through IGN. EA is using some nifty new tool called the “Catch Debugging Tool” to generate more realistic AI decisions [ READ MORE ]

Simming the 2010 NCAA basketball tournament

EA definitely likes the 1-seeds, and likes Kansas as well. Using NCAA Basketball 10 to simulate the 2010 NCAA Men’s basketball tournament, EA had all four 1-seeds getting to the Final four with Kansas taking it over Duke with a 76-64 win. The tournament wasn’t without upsets though. The biggest first round upset had 14-seed Montana [ READ MORE ]

TheSportsGamer atwitter 3/16

I comb the twitter feeds so you don’t have to. Otherwise known as what’s going on during a typical slow new days… ModNation Racers has gotten a May 25 release date for thePS3 and PSP. Pre-order incentives include playable Nathan Drake, Kratos and Ratchet and Clank dependant on where you pre-order the game from. [Playstation blog] 16 [ READ MORE ]

TheSportsGamer atwitter…

Because I’ve been working for the weekend (and will be on the weekend), I dug through my twitter feed to find the latest sports gaming nuggets for y’all. Operation Sports has a very cool interview with Tecmo Bowl Throwback Producer, Mike Fahrny. You can read it here. Definitely looking forward to this one, especially the multiplayer and [ READ MORE ]

Monday headlines

Ah, welcome to our latest “feature”. Monday headlines gets the new week started with the latest news and gossip and hot links from the sports gaming community. Without further ado, let’s hit it… We are just one week away from the release of MLB 10: The Show and MLB 2K10. Obviously I’m planning at least a [ READ MORE ]