In a seemingly innocuous press release from Electronic Arts today, the company announced some great news for b-ballin' PlayStation 3 fans. Touting an NBA Finals simulation on NBA Live, the publisher snuck in the fact that NBA Live 07 will be a launch title for Sony's next-gen system.
EA Sports is offering free downloadable content for NBA Live 08 with the "NBA All-Star 2008 Pack by adidas". Included are this year's jerseys, court, and 10 new pairs of shoes made exclusively for New Orleans. The pack is available for the 360 and will be for PS3 shortly.
EA sent out a news alert letting Loot Ninja know that a downloadable patch for NBA Live 08 is now available on the PS3 to enable 10 player Online Team Play. The patch will be available for the Xbox 360 later this month.
EA announced today that a NBA Live 08 videogame simulation of the entire 2007-08 NBA season predicted that the Phoenix Suns will come away winners of The Finals 2008 next June, defeating the Boston Celtics in seven games.
EA has announced that a free downloadable update in November will bring full five on five online co-op to NBA Live 08 online play.
VGChartz has just uploaded the new hard- and software sales for the week of September 30 - October 6. Not suprisingly, Halo 3 remains the top selling game in the US with an additional 562.000 copies in its second week, which brings its total to almost 3.2 million. Nintendo DS's biggest title of the year thus far, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, debuted on second place with almost 350.000 copies. Also, NBA 2K8 on the Xbox 360 outsold NBA Live 08 on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 2 with a debut of 116.000, compared to NBA Live's 102.000 on the Xbox 360. Microsofts exclusive title Project Gotham Racing 4 debuted with just 90.000 copies in its first week.
Electronic Arts today unveiled the music track listing for NBA Live 08 set to release October 2, 2007. Long considered the industry's most influential launching pad for innovative new music, this year's soundtrack features 19 songs ¿ including 5 debut tracks ¿ for an unprecedented international mix of hip-hop, rock, reggae, R&B and more.
EA Sports NBA Live 08 demo is now up on the Xbox 360 Live Marketplace and offers a rematch of the NBA Finals.
EA Sports introduces online leagues in NBA Live 08. This is the first time leagues will be in Live and follows the earlier announcement that they will be in NHL 08 as well.
It's no secret that most so-called "screenshots" of video games released by game publishers aren't just grabbed out of the game. They're carefully posed, using in-game assets. Now, sometimes these are exactly reflective of what the game looks like. Sometimes they are total lies: Penny Arcade has termed these "bullshots."