NBA Archive

  • Create the Sneakers of Your Dreams in NBA 2K13

    Create the Sneakers of Your Dreams in NBA 2K13

    In the hoops world, signature shoe styles are just about as important as the quality of a player’s game. You can often gauge the popularity and star status of a player by how many people line up outside Footlocker to buy their latest sneaker design. […]

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  • Become a True Floor General with NBA 2K13 Kinect Voice Command

    Become a True Floor General with NBA 2K13 Kinect Voice Command

    “Hey Kobe, get your ass off the bench!” Verbal commands such as this (OK, so those exact words probably won’t work) will be available to Xbox 360 Kinect hoopsters for the first time in NBA 2K13. Instead of making couch potato ballers get up off […]

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  • NBA 2K13 Makes 1992 Dream Team vs. Team USA 2012 Fantasy Matchup a Video Game Reality

    NBA 2K13 Makes 1992 Dream Team vs. Team USA 2012 Fantasy Matchup a Video Game Reality

    If you listened to sports talk radio or watched morning talk shows on ESPN during the London 2012 Olympics, you’ll no doubt have encountered (or suffered through?) countless debates about who’s better between MJ and LeBron and who would win in a fantasy, cross-era game […]

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  • Jay Z’s Handpicked NBA 2K13 Soundtrack

    Jay Z’s Handpicked NBA 2K13 Soundtrack

    As if 2K Sports hasn’t attached enough star power to NBA 2K13 already, what with three superstar cover athletes and continued involvement with Michael Jordan and other NBA legends, now it has been announced that Jay Z–yes, the rapper, part-owner of the Brooklyn Nets and […]

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  • Majesco Dishes Complete NBA Baller Beats Soundtrack

    Majesco Dishes Complete NBA Baller Beats Soundtrack

    Wanna know what chart-topping beats you’ll be rhythmically dribble-jammin’ to with your Kinect, a replica Spalding basketball, and a copy of NBA Baller Beats later this year? Here’s the complete song list featured in Majesco’s upcoming full-body basketball music game for Xbox 360. Start with […]

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  • NBA Baller Beats to Come With a Real Spalding Basketball, In-Game Trading Cards

    NBA Baller Beats to Come With a Real Spalding Basketball, In-Game Trading Cards

    Last month, when Majesco announced its Kinect motion control fusion of basketball dribbling skills and rhythm gameplay using a real basketball as a peripheral, I joked about how the game, NBA Baller Beats, should come bundled with a nerf ball on a string for safety […]

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  • Yes, NBA Baller Beats is a Real Kinect Game

    Yes, NBA Baller Beats is a Real Kinect Game

    The announcement of NBA Baller Beats for Kinect may seem like a postdated April Fool’s gag, but I assure you it is not. As actual gameplay footage won’t be unveiled until E3, I’ll let the press release description paint an early mental picture: Aspire to […]

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  • Dirk Nowitzki Stars in NBA 2K12’s First Screenshot

    Dirk Nowitzki Stars in NBA 2K12’s First Screenshot

    Fresh off his MVP performance against the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals, Dallas Mavericks superstar Dirk Nowitzki scores one more well-deserved feather in his cap as the star player featured in the first gameplay screenshot from NBA 2K12. A screenshot showing the unguardable […]

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  • Review: NBA Jam

    Review: NBA Jam

    Boomshakalaka! NBA Jam is back, baby – and it took what appeared to be an awful lot of work to reach this point. First planned as a Wii exclusive, this latest reincarnation of NBA Jam was later confirmed to also be a downloadable pack-in freebie […]

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  • NBA Jam Goes Online on PS3 and Xbox 360 Next Month

    NBA Jam Goes Online on PS3 and Xbox 360 Next Month

    EA Sports’ NBA Jam reboot, currently available on the Wii and previously planned to be included as a down-scaled freebie in new copies of NBA Elite, is officially getting a full-blown retail release on PS3 and Xbox 360 following the disastrous postponement of Elite. The […]

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