The race for the NBA championship is yet again nigh, and accompanying it is the traditional new edition of EA’s longstanding NBA Live franchise. Throughout its history, NBA Live has never been able to fully escape its status as an average basketball simulation, but it’s hard to fault EA for continuously trying. Still, despite its [...]

Recently the NBA Live 10 demo was made available on the Xbox Live Marketplace, and I got a chance to get a hands-on look at the game. It starts in the NBA hangar, like Live 09, and in it are stars like Dwayne Wade, Lebron James, Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard. For newcomers to the [...]

Trials HD loves to form an emotional bond. Ready to seduce players for one more go or break their heart with an inevitable crash, it’s Live Arcade’s version of a female playing hard to get. While you control the manliest of bikers, who storms across outrageous courses towards the finish line at heart-thumping speeds, the [...]

As the summer’s top sporting events slowly dry up, playing Ashes Cricket 2009 feels like prolonging the death of an immobile old man. Sure, the real series is into the all-important last test, with none of us the wiser as to who will win, but there’s an air of pointlessness about a game that’s been [...]

With the iPhone’s touch screen capabilities, punching opponents in the face can be a lot of fun. It’s hardly untested waters either, with many variously priced applications allowing users to casually poke and prod their opposites all over the ring. As with the console formats, developers need to decide early if they want to go [...]

Hey batta batta batta, sa-wing batta! As part of a summer promotion, Dark Horse Comics characters are appearing on online baseball card trading game Baseball Boss in the form of a team called the Dark Horse All-Stars. The team includes popular Dark Horse denizens like Concrete, Hellboy, Abe Sapien (from B.P.R.D.), X, Rumor and Kraken [...]

UFC Undisputed has done better than anyone dared to imagine. To this day the game has shipped more than 2.5 million units across the Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms. It has also been in the top ten selling games since its release last May. If you do the math you’ll see that the UFC brand [...]

Xbox Live will get an exclusive demo of the upcoming Madden NFL 10 starting July 23 for Xbox LIVE Gold members and July 30 for Silver members.  One week earlier than anywhere else.
Available exclusively via Xbox LIVE Marketplace one week before anywhere else, the launch will grant early access of this special sneak peek to millions [...]

How time has passed. It’s already been 10 years since 2K Sports released the first of the NBA 2K games, a series that has increased in popularity over time, with last year’s NBA 2K9 selling 2 million units worldwide.
To celebrate their 10-year anniversary and sales of NBA 2K9, 2K Sports announced the NBA 2K10 Anniversary [...]

It looks like UFC Unleashed has some competition.  EA just announced a brand new sports franchise EA Sports MMA.
More as it’s announced.