10 Rookies We’re Excited for in NBA 2K15

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NBA 2K15 Review

Last year’s NBA 2K14 started with a great deal of fanfare. The intro video to that game treated it as the culmination of the developers’ work over 14 years, insinuating that it was finally the perfect game of virtual basketball. Of course, as soon as you actually got into a game, that insinuation…

The Madden Cover Curse: Proving It’s Fake

In 2000, for their upcoming Madden NFL 2001 release, EA Sports made the then-controversial choice to put a specific player on the cover of the game, as opposed to the eponymous John Madden.

NBA 2K15: Examining the Game’s Two Biggest Flaws

I’m still very much enjoying NBA 2K15, but as the holiday season has heated up, I must admit I’ve found myself drifting away from it and towards other things. It’s not that I’ve soured on it, by any means, but it’s gotten to the point where the…

NBA 2K15 MyGM: Building a Dynasty in the Central Division

Happy NBA 2K15 release day, everyone! Our final division preview takes a look at the Central, which saw radical changes in the offseason:

Chicago Bulls

NBA 2K15 MyLeague Sliders: Keeping Kevin Love in Cleveland

One of the most exciting aspects of NBA 2K15 is the customization offered to users in MyLeague. I advocate for sliders in sports games as much as possible, because every user is going to have their own interpretation of how…

NBA 2K15's MyCareer Needs a Change of Scenery

In late 2009, NBA 2K10‘s MyPlayer mode was a revelation. Though previous sports games allowed you to create a player and take that player through their career in the pros, 2K10 refined the idea out of the gate, first by having a downloadable draft…

NBA 2K15: Five Under the Radar Teams to Use

The draft has come and gone, and we are now fully in the throes of NBA free agency, which, though it probably won’t be transformative for the league as a whole, should see at least 1 star player (most likely Carmelo Anthony) switch teams, shifting the…

NBA 2K15: An Early Look at the Top Teams

It’s been almost two weeks since LeBron James gave us “The Letter,” and since then, the shape of the NBA in 2014 has started to come into focus. There are still some good players out there for the taking (notably Eric Bledsoe and Greg Monroe), but with NBA…

NBA 2K15's Biggest Gameplay Improvement

Last night, the fine folks over at 2K hosted a livestream which featured video of the first full game of NBA 2K15 released for public consumption. Of course, as someone who had huge problems with NBA 2K14′s on-court gameplay, I tuned in with great interest to…

NBA 2K15's 2KU Doesn’t Make the Grade

Every year, I have the same criticism of NBA2K‘s training mode: it teaches you to play 2K, not how to play basketball. Now, prior to this year, that was a criticism that extended to every sports game, as none of the other big sports titles offered anything more…

The Best Season Ever

One fan’s look at the joys to be found in being bad.