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Sports EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Survey suggests Evan Longoria will be MLB 2K10 coverboy 23 The Tampa Bay Rays may have missed out on the playoffs this year, but the team’s third baseman, Evan Longoria (no relation to actress Eva Longoria) may be cashing in on his two very good ye... Tony Hawk RIDE dev looking for people to work on new game 9 While Tony Hawk RIDE and its skateboard controller don't land until next week, it seems that Activision may already be looking to the future of the franchise and its new controller. superannuatio... Madden NFL Arcade hitting November 24th and 25th 7 EA plans to release Madden NFL Arcade during Thanksgiving week.The downloadable casual Madden experience hits the PS Store November 24th and then Xbox LIVE Arcade on the 25th. But the price of no... On XBLA this week: NBA Unrivaled plus two more 14 I'm no Samit Sarkar, but I can still recognize the serious lack of a downloadable, high-def NBA Jam. Hell, I'd be happy if they simply added online play and called it a day. By now, most of you ... First good look at EA Sports MMA 17 In the grand pantheon of things I have no place writing about MMA might be the top dog. However, last night on CBS's Saturday Night Fight EA ran an ad for their upcoming MMA game, EA Sports MMA a... Deca Sports coming to the DS 2 Deca Sports has wildly been popular on the Wii for some time now. The first one sold over a million copies in North America and the sequel was released just two months ago. Now, Deca Sports is he... Ten Minute Taste: FIFA 10 4 I'm no sports buff, but I enjoy a good soccer game. In fact, soccer and golf are the only sports games I'll ever play. Well, these and Baseball Simulator 1000 for the NES. That game was awesome.... Winners of the Academy of Champions haiku contest 10 Academy of Champions: Soccer is coming out next Tuesday and to promote the game, Ubisoft sent over four soccer balls themed after the game. The balls were also signed by soccer star Mia Hamm, mak... Kasabian Football Hero: When Guitar Hero meets soccer 19 Yes, this is another one of those projects aimed at bringing Guitar Hero-style rhythm action to the real world.Kasabian Football Hero, as it's been dubbed, involves soccer balls being kicked at v... Reminder: Write a haiku and win some soccer balls 108 Academy of Champions: Soccer is an upcoming over-the-top arcade style soccer game by way of Ubisoft. It's set to offer a ton of features and also stars legendary soccer star Pele along with Mia H... Learn how to make your own moves in Shaun White 3 Shaun White: Road Trip on the Wii is the only reason I ever use my Balance Board (or it was until Wii Fit Plus came out). It's actually quite a well put together game, despite Cammie's inability... MLB The Show dev painstakingly recreates in-game stadiums 5 The New York Yankees eliminated the Minnesota Twins in Game 3 of their 2009 American League Division Series matchup last week, and that baseball game is the last one that will ever be played in M... Top ten Xbox Live NFL teams revealed 16 How many of you out there are closet football fans? You try to rep hardcore nerd, but every Sunday you sneak away from the videogames and watch football for 4-10 hours straight. You make fun of a... Greenberg: Xbox 360 will beat PS3 at baseball 37 That's right, folks! Aaron Greenberg, a man employed by Microsoft, has nice things to say in public about Microsoft! How about that for mindblowing? Once again, MS' minister of propaganda is spra... NO! Video of canceled Mutant League game surfaces 18 Oh man. Today is just full of sad news. First we found out that a The Flash game was in the works. Then we saw what would have been a new Road Rash game. To top it all off, there was also a next... Dog-faced football fan suing EA for Madden likeness theft 17 Best headline ever. Cleveland Browns fan John Thompson is known for representing his beloved football team by wearing a terrifying bulb-eyed dog mask. You'd think the man would be happy to appear... Preview: MX vs ATV Reflex 4 Recently THQ invited me out to sit down and play the final build of MX vs. ATV Reflex (Samit played an earlier build this year,) and while I was at it take a shot at helming both an MX bike and a... The Memory Card .69: TKO! BJ! LOL! 36 "The Memory Card" is a seasonal feature that dissects and honors some of the most artistic, innovative, and memorable videogame moments of all time.I was originally going to write about... Hitting the slopes with a flick: Stoked: Big Air Edition 6 SSX 3 and Amped. These, at least for me, are the foundational games of an amazing series of snowboarding videogames. Sure, you can argue that Shawn White's entry was something worth mentioning, o... Stoked: Big Air announced for 360, includes more snow 8 Destineer has announced that it will be publishing the "redux" version of Bongfish's snowboarding game Stoked this November.  Called Stoked: Big Air Edition, the game features... Can Tecmo's NBA Unrivaled channel NBA Jam? 10 I'm very open about the reason I hired a sports writer for Destructoid. I don't watch sports and I don't play sports, so it stands to reason I probably don't play many (if any) traditional sports... Cammie Dunaway to be in Shaun White 2 27 This is confirmed. 100 percent. Cammie Dunaway will be showing up in Shaun White 2 on the Wii as a playable character. I'm not lying... oh, I can't keep this up. This is most likely a joke from s... NBA 2K10 trailer brings the hibbity hop 4 Word, I... uhhh... be down with the hip hop scenes, yo. Check out these... errr... whackity moves from NBA 2K10 due on the... ahem... streets on Oct. 13.God, I'm white and I'm not a basketball fa... EA teases bringing back SSX 45 During my time here, there has always been one game that seems to be met with universal praise whenever it gets mentioned, and it's a game you might not immediately think of: SSX Tricky. When the... PS3/360 Grand Slam Tennis delayed for motion control 8 When EA Sports president Peter Moore first told the world of EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis more than a year ago, he noted that the Wii version would support Wii MotionPlus, and that it would launch... Check out some video of Deca Sports DS 0 We heard back in August that Hudson would be bringing Deca Sports series to the Nintendo DS, and now we hear there's video of it too. In fact, it's right there above the words I'm writing right n... Latest Pangya season 4 screens show off new characters 8 Ntreev's digital crack RPG golf game Pangya is currently entering its fourth season, and along with tons of new features and systems, it's got some new characters as well. Thankfully, however, th... Review: NHL 10 27 EA Sports’ NHL franchise has a distinguished pedigree -- the past two games in the series have earned 19 “sports game of the year” awards from various videogame publications and... Game SERIES Debate to the Death!Mario Golf VS Tiger Woods 31 Time to tee off and debate until you're tee'd off! From turf to rough we move on from last week's debate to another sports series Dtoid discussion. Debate dare: read the rest of this in your... Electronic Arts sued over Fight Night Round 4 14 We just received a lawsuit claim from sports licensing group Fighters Inc., accusing Electronic Arts of misappropriating the names and likenesses of professional boxers in Fight Night Round 4. Th... Game SERIES Debate to the Death! Madden VS Blitz 36 The debate destruction trail continues hot off the heels of Guitar Hero's corpse from last week. Another week, another homicide. This one wasn't as horrible to witness, but it still made you want... NBA 2K10 commentary to update throughout the season 5 If a sports game doesn't update its stats and rosters throughout the season as things change within the real world its pretty antiquated (or on the Wii). It's actually one of the cooler advanceme... New character screens and updates for Pangya season 4 13 You're probably familiar with the PSP version of Ntreev's RPG-style golf game, Pangya. If not, you're at least familiar with the dude who won our recent contest. Originally an online PC game, the... iPhone title Football U now free on App Store 7 Longtail Studios has announced that its iPhone/iPod Touch title, a 3D football game called Football U, is now available for free on the App Store. Hey, what's this? A sports story not writte... Not surprisingly, Wii Sports Resort is a hit 17 Surely, everyone saw this coming: Nintendo has revelaed that Wii Sports Resort is a ridiculously huge success. The publisher has revealed that since its June 26 launch, over 1 million copies of t... Pro skaters talk fake skating for Tony Hawk: Ride 26 Tony Hawk: Ride is a game you play with your feet on a plastic skateboard. My mother always told me if I have nothing nice to say about something I shouldn't say anything at all, so that is wher... GC 09: The official videogame to the Winter Olympics 2010 9 If you’re looking for a game on the Winter Olympic without the furry factor, then Sega has your back. Vancouver 2010 is the official videogame for Winter Olympic Games set to come out on th... Pay what you want for Championship Manager 2010 9 Yes, it is just like Radiohead, isn't it?Eidos is introducing a consumer-friendly pay scheme for Championship Manager 2010, offering players the chance to buy the game for as little as one Englis... Review: Madden NFL 10 32 After a short run against the Washington Redskins, the dreaded notice came up: “B. [Brandon] Jacobs is going to be evaluated by team doctors.” The New York Giants subbed in their smal... Wii Sports Resort will not be packed with the Wii 13 Wii Sports is easily one of the Wii's most popular titles, due in no small part to the fact that it came packed with the system. You'd think Nintendo might do it all over again with Wii Sports Re... Blood Bowl: Meet the Dwarves 9 Continuing their series of team-centric trailers for Blood Bowl, Cyanide has released a new video today. This time we're looking at the Dwarves. They are squat and muscular and they have that ado... First impressions: Madden NFL 10 17 It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: Samit Sarkar and Brad Nicholson have spent the past few days playing EA Sports’ Madden NFL 10, and they’re here to give you th... Madden 10 gives its predictions for this year's season 20 One of the greatest excuses to let the computer play against itself in Madden is so that the game can predict the outcome of real life games. Every year around the game's launch EA does exactly t... Sports games: the Wii has them, people play them 12 Jokes about one's Wii collecting dust under one's television might be true for many who don't seem to have discovered the good games on it yet, but it doesn't mean it's true for everyone. In fact... Review: Little League World Series Baseball 2009 4 Being Destructoid's unofficial "Wii guy" has its perks and its pitfalls. It's nice to get first dibs on reviewing awesome games like Little King's Story and Bit.Trip Core, but when a Wi... Check out some Madden NFL 10 media 10 With the highly-anticipated launch of Madden NFL 10 only a week and a half away, it’s high time for you to familiarize yourself with the game if you haven’t done so already. To that e... NBA 2K10 Anniversary Edition comes in a big frickin' box 9 About a month ago, we told you about how 2K Sports is going above and beyond for the tenth anniversary of their NBA 2K franchise with a tricked-out Anniversary Edition of NBA 2K10. It comes with ... Madden NFL 10 looks a lot better than Madden NFL 09 16 In case you haven’t kept up, EA Tiburon has made numerous visual improvements to the Madden series with Madden NFL 10. They’re justifiably proud, so they’ve put together a bunch... EA announces downloadable Madden Arcade for holiday 2009 17 Remember 3 on 3 NHL Arcade, the $10 PSN/XBLA hockey game that hearkened back to arcade sports classics like NBA Jam and NFL Blitz? Well, it seems that NHL Arcade sold well enough for EA Sports to... Snooker finally comes to the Wii in WSC Real 09 17 Now you may be asking yourself, "What the f*ck is Snooker?" That's a valid question, and the answer is that I have no idea. If I had to guess I'd say it's a knockoff candy bar, although... NHL 2K10 is the best hockey game EVAR 8 You'll have to excuse me if I got a little excited in that headline over nothing more than a very simple teaser trailer (I'm not even a huge hockey fan), but it's been so long since I've seen a D... EA Sports inks Fedor Emelianenko, others for MMA game 25 Yesterday, EA Sports confirmed the first three fighters for its upcoming mixed martial arts videogame, tentatively titled EA Sports MMA. Headlining the game’s roster will be current WAMMA h... Create players early: 2K announces NBA 2K10 Draft: Combine 6 Basketball is a sport where players toss a spherical object into a large circular hole. Every time the rubbery ball makes it through the hole, the player earns seven points (and then flips a coin... Madden NFL 10 developers drop knowledge on whiny receiver 28 For those who thought that Seattle Seahawks wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh was merely joking when he complained about his attributes in Madden NFL 10 and said he was boycotting the game, well,... First video, images of NBA Live 10 7 For a long time now, EA Sports’ NBA Live series has fallen short of its counterpart from 2K Sports, NBA 2K, in offering a realistic, fun, bug-free game of basketball. In fact, with almost a... Blood Bowl: Meet the Goblins 21 Ahhh, Blood Bowl. It's been a few months since we've seen any footage of it and I'm happy to report that the drought may be at an end. After the fold, you can see a new trailer -- the first of ei... Soundtracks for Madden, NBA Live, NHL, and FIFA announced 25 Electronic Arts has announced the soundtracks for its fall lineup of EA Sports titles, which includes Madden NFL 10, FIFA 10, NHL 10, and NBA Live 10. As expected, it's a lot of damned music, rep... First screenshots, updated box art for NHL 2K10 6 I guess 2K Sports just remembered that their NBA 2K franchise isn't the only one that's celebrating its tenth anniversary, because they sent us some updated box art for NHL 2K10. As you can see i... Seahawks receiver unhappy with Madden rating, boycotts game 32 Sure, the annual Madden ratings are a big deal to football players -- and for the particularly egotistical ones, it’s natural to feel that the game doesn’t properly assess their talen... 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