EA Sports today announced a new NBA Jam that is wisely going to be a downloadable game with support for online roster updates, a very welcome feature that might be useless next season as an NFL-like lockout is very possible. Hidden alongside that news was a brief note that the next game in EA’s line of simulation basketball products will be next available during fall 2012. This will be the second year in a row without a successor to what was once called NBA Live (and is now, at least until it’s changed again, titled NBA Elite), something that is certainly costing EA tremendous amounts of money. But it should be applauded for giving the game’s developers time to get it right; before being canceled, NBA Elite 11 was going to be a major overhaul for the series, which had been lagging behind NBA 2K for years. It may or may not result in a superior game to 2K’s product in 2012. Whatever the result, I might very well buy it just to support EA’s decision not to push out what it knows is a lackluster product.
Today’s highlights:
- Leaked details on the next Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack.
- Publishers are wrong to shoehorn multiplayer into games.
- A movie based on GTA or any Rockstar game would be developed in-house or with top talent.
- GameStop has contemplated releasing its own gaming tablet.
- Sony’s PlayStation-certified tablet will be out this summer.
- Tron’s Legacy: Where Film and Game Collide
- Does the original Tron hold up?
- 1UP Gameathon for Japan kicks off this Thursday.
- Play 1UP’s interactive Silent Hill parody game.
And here’s what else happened today:
Sega Kicking Off Sonic’s 20th Anniversary Celebration This Week
