During the buildup to the Playstation 4 launch, my wife asked me, "which game are you most excited to play?" I responded, "If I could only play one, I'd pick NBA 2K14." The preview videos looked amazing and I played the heck out of NBA 2K13 on my Xbox 360 and loved everything except the annoying high-paced startup music.

Skipping ahead, the PS4 finally launched and the first game I played was indeed NBA 2K14. The graphics did wow and the gameplay was just as good...

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Like most of you I went to my computer on Sunday evening during the Super Bowl’s no nipples allowed halftime show to check on the new Madden 10 update. I had been expecting to see the guys from Tiburon throw down with tidbits about pre, halftime, and post game shows; refs visible on the field; enhanced game analysis and television overlays; the death of suction tackling; or even just some needed additions to franchise mode.


Well needless to say I was disappointed. Don't get...

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We all know that the effort and resources needed to produce a modern sports game is getting pretty substantial and only seems to be becoming more difficult with each passing generation. With at least several years left to run on the newly extended NFL exclusivity deal with Electronic Arts, will the NFL have painted itself into a proverbial corner by the time the next true negotiations for the license occur?

It seems to me that after so many years have passes without any other company...

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Before analog controllers became an industry standard, digital controllers made anything short of all-the-way or nothing controller inputs all but impossible. If you were to play a football game from that era the players either ran full normal speed or stopped dead. There was no jogging without a button input to tell your avatar to kick it in gear and speed up.

Today's analog control has solved that problem. We all see it in just about any game we pickup where as the thumb-stick...

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I was looking at some screen shots last week and I noticed one of them was an exterior to the Mets new ballpark Citi Field. That got me thinking about how much I liked watching the stadium run ups before the game in the PS2 version and about how nice it would be to set the tone for the location a game was taking place at before the first pitch. Madden 09 gave it a halfhearted effort this year with the stadium exteriors before the kickoff. Could this be the year Sony shows everyone how it’s done?...

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