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Do NBA GMs Agree With NBA Video Games About Which Players Are the Best?

Five Critical Tips for Drafting Against the CPU In Madden NFL 16's Draft Champions Mode

Draft Champions is Madden NFL 16's big new addition off the field, and with it comes an entire new set of strategies to sift through for maximum success. The following five tips…

10 Rookies I’m Excited to Play with in NBA Live 16 and NBA 2K16

Last year’s NBA rookie class had a lot of promise, but a rash of injuries caused it to be a bit of a letdown in both real life and video game basketball. Still, Andrew Wiggins, Elfrid Payton, and Zach LaVine made their…

The Best Season Ever

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

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.

10 Rookies We’re Excited for in NBA 2K15

Welcome to the hardcore NBA corner of the site! I’m going to…

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…

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…