Posts tagged NbaLive 
Moore talks casual, Wii focus for EA Sports
Amid talk of Facebreaker and the impact of an exclusive NFL license, an quick IGN interview with EA Sports President Peter Moore highlights the prominent studio's focus on making sports games more accessible to a wider audience. "There will be more announcements that will be ... looking at the...
NBA Live 08 Demo on Marketplace
Hot out of the oven and freshly available on the XBLM to most Live members (except some European countries and Japan) is a brand spanking new NBA Live 08 demo. This basketball demo-o-fun clocks in at a mere 562MBs and we're guessing it features lots of enjoyable basketball gameplay. Although, we wil...
EA to stop online support for six PSP games
Starting September 1st, EA will officially shut down servers for the following online-enabled PSP titles: FIFA Soccer 06 FIFA World Cup 2006 Fight Night Round 3 Madden NFL 06 NBA Live 06 In addition, Need for Speed Most Wanted will go offline starting November 1st. It looks like those ...
EA Sports introduces kid-friendly waggle with "Family Play"
Never let it be said that EA can't innovate! Whatever we usually think of EA Sports, their new Family Play control system is really cool. Madden '08, NBA Live '08, and FIFA Soccer '08 will all include Wiimote-and-Nunchuk-based control schemes that will allow players to "take full control of the...
EA's NBA Live cover Gilbert Arenas prefers NBA 2K series
The next time EA decides to put an athlete who's an actual gamer on their NBA Live cover, it might help to have vetted him first. As Jon Robinson of IGN points out in a piece about who will replace Shaq as NBA 2K's cover athlete, Gilbert Arenas would have made sense. In a Q&A session on NBA.com ...
NBA Live 08 looking all sweaty n' stuff
Today, EA unveiled the new NBA Live 08 cover featuring Wizard's own Gilbert Arenas and also released a few screenshots to boot. And as you can see from the screen above, the face mapping on the models is quite lovely. We also noticed the muscle definition, the subtle vein effects, the jersey fabric...
NBA Live '07 1000 man achievement chance now! [update 1]
A reminder regarding one of the most obnoxious Xbox 360 achievements ever conceived. For the next hour, if you've got a copy of NBA Live '07, turn that puppy on, it may be the best chance to get the "1,000 People Online" achievement. The achievement is worth 100 points. The event was promoted by Ach...
Join 1,000 NBA Live players, boost your Gamerscore
The objective is simple: unlock NBA Live 07's "Online with 1,000 people" Xbox 360 Achievement. To do so, Achieve360Points.com is asking all would-be b-ballers to get online Saturday night (8-9 pm EST). You don't even need to play. Simply stream ESPN radio (via Xbox Live) and go about your business; ...
In-game ads adapting
While in-game ads aren't new, Wired News explores recent additions to the trend. Some advertisements are becoming more overt, while other forms of product placement are more subtly placed in games. Adidas uses the product-placement route with frequent branding in NBA Live 07. Burger King takes th...
NBA Live 06 Marketplace content: theme and gamer pictures
There's an early Christmas present waiting for everyone under their tree inside their online-enabled next-generation video game console. Available for your downloading pleasure: an NBA Live 06 theme and a gamer picture for each and every NBA team (including the Philadelphia '76ers!) Sometimes I forg...
