Weekly Recap: July 2nd-8th

With E3 coming this week a lot is being held back. NBA Live 08 kept its strong push going though, revealing a handful of new features and I was able to talk about my thoughts on the Hot Spots. NCAA Football and All-Pro Football are to the point where everyone is just waiting on their demos. The Madden Community Day planned for this coming week was changed into an NCAA Football centric event. Chris Paul has been chosen to be the NBA 2K8 cover athlete.

This should be a pretty big week. EA will be featuring five different games, although we know many of the details about them already. 2K will have an opportunity to get the word out on what to expect from their NBA and NHL titles. A demo for both NCAA Football and All-Pro should be coming in conjunction with the event. And, as always, there could be some surprises.

Check back to the site often this week for all the latest news and media coming out of E3.

NBA Live 08 PadreCast #5: Community Day Impressions (7/2)
Screens of Ray Allen as a Celtic (7/3)
Sizzle Trailer (7/3)
Quick Strike Ball Handling (7/4)
Go-To Moves Tony Parker Video (7/5)
Hot Spots (7/5)
More screens and Gamespot hands-on (7/6)
Padre’s Hands-on impressions of Hot Spots (7/6)

NCAA Football 08Demo likely to be released next week (7/2)
Campus Legend tutorial video (7/3)
Top 25 teams (7/6)

Madden 08New Redskins screenshots (7/4)
Community Day Update (7/5)
Hands-on and videos for Wii version (7/6)

All-Pro Football 2K8 IGN hands-on (7/2)
The Special Abilities (7/5)

The BigsPadre’s Rookie Challenge Part 3 (7/3)
Padre’s Rookie Challenge Part 4 + video (7/4)
PadreCast #6 Game Impressions (7/5)
Padre’s Rookie Challenge Part 5 (7/8)

Misc.Chris Paul is the NBA 2K8 cover athlete (7/4)
Odd cover art choices for the NCAA basketball games (7/4)
NHL 08 Hands-on IGN (7/7)
What to expect from E3 (7/7)