tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:27:05 +0000WiiPS3Xbox 360PCPS2Xbox360GamingInformationDSPSPGet your daily doze of PS3, PS2, Wii, Xbox 360, PC, DS, PSP news.http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Tomas)Blogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-3312252944790300670Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:36:00 +00002007-09-26T21:41:13.407-07:00PS3Luke Van LeuverenEvery year with the NBA 2K series gamers can expect a solid basketball title. Each title doesn't really differ too much from the previous year's game, but Visual Concepts has developed such an impressive series that there are very few improvements we could recommend. It's that time of the year again and NBA 2K8 is set for release by the end of the year, we recently had an http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/nba-2k8-preview-we-go-hands-on-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-5054814023228044323Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:59:00 +00002007-09-25T11:03:12.050-07:00WiiSteven RodriguezThe Need For Speed series has been known recently to skirt the law. High speed car chases, underground street racing, and other shady activities have taken place, usually under the cover of darkness. ProStreet is taking the series in a more legitimate direction, keeping the essence of the tuner car culture and removing the need to look over your shoulder for Johnny Law with every http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/need-for-speed-prostreet-preview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-2581289323178672990Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:54:00 +00002007-09-25T10:58:43.381-07:00PCPS2PS3Xbox 360Craig Nye Playing Pro Evolution Soccer 6 last year was like being stabbed in the back by your best friend: totally unexpected and impossible to accept. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 was the dictionary definition of the word, ‘disappointment’. That’s not to say it was a terrible game, it was still this writer’s football game of choice throughout the whole of this year, and it was still the same old game http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/pro-evolution-soccer-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-877796986481388793Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:43:00 +00002007-09-25T10:53:21.372-07:00PCStuart Bishop Come this Christmas Sports Interactive's latest game in its successful Football Manager series will be hanging out at your local games emporium and demanding your hard earned cash. Pulling out several stops, SI has introduced over 100 new features into Football Manager 2008 and the game's fully updated for the new football season. Over 5,000 playable teams are present from around http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/football-manager-2008-interview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-2236664752072259258Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:45:00 +00002007-09-21T23:49:59.655-07:00PCPS3WiiXbox 360Need for Speed ProStreet Grip Racing Video (X360, PS3)TGS07: Winning Eleven 2008 Video (X360, PS3)SEGA Rally Revo TGS 07 Trailer (X360)Burnout Paradise Update (X360)Pool Party Screenshots (Wii)NHL 08 New Faces, New Places Trailer (X360)We Love Golf Videos (Wii)Maximum Football 2.0 Screenshots (PC)NHL 08 Gameplay Movie 5-8 (X360)NHL 2K8 Gameplay Movie 1-3 (X360)Skate Gameplay Movie 10-12 (X360)http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/need-for-speed-prostreet-grip-racing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-3667836450088098603Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:27:00 +00002007-09-21T10:39:32.150-07:00WiiMike ThomsenNever one to miss an opportunity, EA is gearing up to bring the most popular sport on earth to one of the fastest selling consoles in the history of video games. FIFA 08, developed specifically for Wii by EA Canada, brings a whole new feature set to the series, as well as some exclusive gameplay modes, that promises to be a compelling package.While FIFA 08 will use the PS2’s FIFA http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/fifa-08-its-time-to-hit-pitch-in-eas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-3458792155744631936Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:21:00 +00002007-09-20T00:26:36.375-07:00PS3Arnold KatayevWipeOut is one of the few PlayStation games that has amassed such a following that it'd be criminal of Sony to not continue following it up as often as possible. While we only got one WipeOut game for the PlayStation 2, we were treated to a fantastic PSP entry years ago. Well, this time around, WipeOut fans are going to be in heaven soon. With WipeOut Pulse arriving on the PSP http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/wipeout-hd.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-440829079821429161Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:39:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:49.868-08:00WiiMike JacksonWhere Wii Sports is a small fix of motion control luxury, Rockstar's Table Tennis is a full-on effort. Wii Sports Tennis has been one of the best examples of the Wii's motion control system, but Rockstar has finally stepped up with a more substantial offering. For the record, we asked why Rockstar hadn't done Wii Table Tennis last Christmas...Table tennis on Wii is pretty much a http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/rockstar-games-presents-table-tennis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-7768628235975029245Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:30:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:50.033-08:00WiiBozon (ign.com)For us, WrestleMania 23 wasn't just about seeing John Cena smoke Shawn Michaels in the main event, or watching as Austin 3:16 preached a sermon on whup-ass all over Detroit. Sure, we had fun doing it, but the real purpose of the "business" trip was to check out SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008 for Nintendo Wii for the very first time. In its extremely preliminary state, SvR was already http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/wwe-smackdown-vs-raw-2008-hands-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-8000618203311767558Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:14:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:50.050-08:00Xbox 360totalvideogames.comAs one of the Xbox 360's launch titles, Project Gotham Racing 3 was in another league compared to those alongside it on the shelves in late 2005. If you need more convincing of this, consider the fact that PGR3 still has a decent enough online presence as a computer game, while other big name Xbox 360 launch titles (e.g. Perfect Dark Zero) having long since fallen from grace. http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/project-gotham-racing-4-emotionally.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-5603881125550093457Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:05:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:50.284-08:00GamingInformationShawn DrotarOver the weekend, the gaming and sports worlds lost one of their best ambassadors in a helicopter crash. Champion rally driver Colin McRae, known as “The Flying Scot”, was piloting his helicopter back to his home in Lanarkshire, Scotland, when it went down roughly 200 yards from his house and burst into flames; killing not only the 39-year old McRae, but three passengers, including http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/colin-mcrae-1968-2007-lost-one-of-their.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-691655212699411302Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:51:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:50.308-08:00PS3Xbox 360Jeremy JastrzabBack in May it was announced that that Midnight Club series would be making its first appearance in this new generation of consoles. While the whole underground street racing thing was almost done to death at the end of the last generation, the Midnight Club series was one that came through with an unscathed reputation. Recently PALGN was invited down to Rockstar’s office to check http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/midnight-club-los-angeles-preview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-6794001777093710088Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:42:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:50.546-08:00DSPCPS2PS3PSPWiiXbox 360Cam SheaAt the recent Games Convention Asia 2007 event in Singapore, we caught up with Andrew Hahn, Producer on Need for Speed ProStreet, to have a chat about the game's new direction, new technology and innovative online concepts.IGN AU: ProStreet represents a pretty different direction for the series, right? What's it all about?Andrew Hahn: Need for Speed ProStreet is all about competing at thehttp://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/need-for-speed-prostreet-interview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-4051222563163430343Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:35:00 +00002007-09-14T00:40:55.626-07:00GamingChris SullivanThis is a week that gamers dream of, yet, a week that our wives and bank accounts fear most. I know I possibly couldn’t have been the only one scrounging around the house for any loose change this past week, leaving no couch cushion unturned. How can I justify to my wife that there’s four games due to release this week that I must have… this week? Please, if anyone has mastered the http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/dollars-but-zero-sense.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-5835273362252477661Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:12:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:50.952-08:00Xbox360Shawn DrotarOnly Sony’s MLB 07: The Show does a comparable job of relaying the nuance, strategy and excitement of the real-life sport it represents as well as NHL 08, and these two titles are easily the two finest sports titles of the last few years. Like in real hockey, you’ll sweat the penalty kill, and feel potent in the power play, but it’s the style of video-game hockey that sets this one http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/nhl-08.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-586535423156390532Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:06:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:51.250-08:00Xbox360Alex QuevedoWith the impending release of EA’s skate and the competition it'll bring along with it, Activision anted up and released a hefty demo of their latest in the Tony Hawk series: Proving Ground. Weighing in at just over 1 GB of storage, the demo lets you roll the streets of Philadelphia to get a taste of the different skate styles available to you in the final version of the game. In the http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/tony-hawks-proving-ground-impressions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-7943964536992419807Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:47:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:51.519-08:00PS3Xbox360Tom Orry One of the criticisms of Criterion's Burnout series of late is that the games aren't really changing much. The latest in the series, Burnout Dominator, cemented that fact as, while it was far from a poor game, it simply didn't excite like previous entries in the series have done. Thankfully this slump seems to be a temporary one, as the studio's real next-gen debut, Burnout Paradise, is http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/burnout-paradise-preview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-1202741575785791964Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:41:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:51.716-08:00WiiZack SternWith a projected late-September U.S. release, Wii-only Victorious Boxers: Revolution dukes it out for the best Wii sports title. I recently played a nearly complete localization of the June-released Japanese original, and Victorious Boxers is clearly different than Wii Sports Boxing. While Americans may think the manga art-style should appeal mostly to kids, the animation and http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/victorious-boxers-revolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-86420279323685184Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:22:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:51.911-08:00Xbox360Total Video GamesMark our words; we're entering a golden age in skating games. Remember when Sports Interactive and Eidos went their separate ways three years ago after over a decade of partnership? Prior to the split, Championship Manager was unquestionably the best football management game on the market. It had been gradually evolving with three all new game engines (Champ Mans 2, 3 and 4) http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/tony-hawks-proving-ground-preview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-250278811561726915Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:01:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:52.115-08:00PS2Jeff Haynes (ign.com)Let's face it - last year's release of NBA Live 07 was definitely not what basketball fans wanted in a sports game. While the focus on Superstar controls and X-factor players was nice if you were looking for flashy animations or posterizing plays, the rest of the gameplay was sorely lacking. Instead of trying to patch up the flaws in last year's game, EA Canada and EA Sports http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/nba-live-08-preview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-7188490217195778991Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:21:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:52.449-08:00Xbox 360Zan ToplisekLike Photo Mode, Arcade Mode has been supped up for the fourth PGR entry as well. The improved mode will be spread across various chapters, with each one consisting of six events and based around a particular driving discipline. One such chapter is “Catch Me If You Can”, where players burn the rubber in race for the top position, or “Drifto 101″, where drifting around corners and http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/details-on-pgr-4-arcade-mode.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-5841891358842886818Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:09:00 +00002008-12-11T11:15:52.467-08:00PS2WiiBrian EkbergOne part arcade sports game, one part RPG, and one part stat-heavy baseball strategy game, 2K Sports' MLB Power Pros Baseball is nothing if not intriguing, and extremely Japanese. Based on Konami's long-running, incredibly popular baseball game from Japan, Power Pros is now set to debut on American shores next month. As we discovered during some hands-on time with the game today, http://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/mlb-power-pros-preview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284806471689870846.post-9020876498915670537Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:59:00 +00002007-09-11T03:08:25.064-07:00InformationShawn DrotarA few things struck me this weekend after I had friends over to play games for an entire afternoon and evening.These events - and to me, they are events - get much harder to arrange when you’re thirty-something with children; but if you believe the numbers, that’s the average gamer today. I don’t know where they find the time. Maybe they don’t - maybe that’s why online play has becomehttp://sportgamesnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/credit-where-credit-is-due.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tomas)