EA Sports has given pastapadre.com an exclusive screen from NBA Live 08. The Rockets Yao Ming is featured in the shot. Click on the thumbnail below to view the full size image.  ...

It appears there is a good chance that a commercial for the upcoming NBA Live and March Madness games will appear during the NBA Draft on June 28th. Recently at the NFL Draft the first commercials for Madden 08 were on display, and featuring a commercial for these two upcoming games with their respective cover athletes would make a lot of sense at the draft this month. Gilbert Arenas mentions in his blog that he will be joining Kevin Durant to film a commercial for EA Sports on June 5th. ...

The official website from EA Sports for NBA Live 08 has gone live. You can check it out by clicking here. Currently on it you can find the news on Gilbert Arenas being selected for the cover as well as the his videos that came out from right around the same time. The producer blogs which have been released on IGN are there as well as the signup for the game's newsletter. Also available are team wallpapers (a new team is added each day) and a countdown to the draft. The Madden website had t...

Those behind developing NBA Live 08, such as Lead Producer Brian Ullrich, will have blogs detailing different aspects of the game and process behind creating it hosted on IGN throughout the summer. Madden recently started the wave of producer blogs, being featured on the EA Sports website and now as well on IGN. The first one for NBA Live is up now. Nothing really new comes out of that particular entry that hasn't been covered elsewhere such as in my first look write-up. I think I've had enou...

Sony has released a trailer for NBA 08 on the Playstation 3. The SCEA franchise will follow up on NBA 07 which came out with the system launch. IGN also recently had an interview with the game's producer. As a first party developer, you would expect them to be pushing the capabilities of the system. Yet SCEA doesn't seem to do that. The visuals on NBA 07, and the early visuals for 08, are sub-par. Even the much more highly regarded MLB 07: The Show has what most would consider "last-gen" grap...

Some of the NBA Street: Homecourt downloadable content that has been advertised as coming soon since launch time has finally made its way to the Xbox Live Marketplace. Melo's Cloverdale Court is available for free. Perkins Park and the Street Legends & Brand Jordan Apparel are 300 points each. The Legends include all six that are shown on the game's official website. Rucker Park, which was supposed to be released for free right after the game made its way to stores, still has not a...

Recently I was invited to visit the EA Canada studio in Burnaby BC to check out some of the titles that are currently being worked on for release later this year. Granted, the builds are at a very early point in development and EA isn't revealing all the details on them, however it offers a great opportunity to see the direction that they are headed and the focus that is going into them. It is no secret that NBA Live 07 didn't end up being the product that the developers and consumers had hop...

EA Sports has released the first two images from NBA Live 08 featuring cover athlete Gilbert Arenas. Click the thumbnails to see the full size screens. ...