Warning: 2K Games has released a patch that makes certain modes unplayable offline. My Career and NBA Today can only be played with an internet connection as of this writing. The other modes have been unaffected. – TM, 12/9/2013, 18:00 PST

Selfish athletes get a bad rap. Basketball is about more than winning and losing, more than raising banners. It’s about All Star appearances and Hall of Fame busts. It’s about pride. When I throw a beautiful pass to a wide-open big man under the basket and he misses a gimme, I don’t care about the scoreboard. I’m worried about my stats, and how that buffoon just cost me a double double. And don’t think for a second that I’m going to launch a full-court shot just before the bu…

Note: This post contains spoilers for all three Mass Effect games in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, as we’ll be running down all of your romance options, as well as pointing out how they can continue throughout all three games. Read on at your own risk.

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is a collection of Bioware’s much-loved Mass Effect trilogy that brings with it all the various choices you can make in them. One of the big upshots of the Mass Effect games is that you can play through them all on the same save file, and therefore, make cascading decisions throughout the series that build on one another. Among those decisions are whether to begin romantic relationships with your crew members, and with whom. Those decisions can carry into the other games,…

Microsoft president Brad Smith has spoken out to criticize the UK’s regulatory body that announced it would block the Xbox company’s proposed buyout of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Speaking to the BBC, Smith said the decision represents the “darkest day” in Microsoft’s 40-plus years in Britain. Smith also brought up Brexit, which is when the UK left the European Union in 2020. He said UK regulators are unelected and unaccountable, while leaders in the EU are more willing to come to the table and have a dialogue to help get a deal done. The head of the CMA responded to Smith’s comments and disagreed on a number of points.

“We are of course very disappointed about the CMA’s d…

Infinity Ward, the long-running and esteemed game developer known for its work on Call of Duty and the Modern Warfare series specifically, is opening a new office.

The company’s latest move will be into Austin, Texas, which is one of America’s biggest game development hubs. The Infinity Ward studio in Austin is the fourth Infinity Ward team around the world, joining the main office in Los Angeles, as well as teams in Poland and Mexico. Infinity Ward’s announcement post said it is hiring for all positions and that more information about the company’s extension in Austin would be announced later. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

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A new Jurassic World movie is in the works, and now another lead may have been found. Deadline reports that the star of Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, is in talks to star in the new dinosaur movie alongside Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey.

Gareth Edwards, who directed the Star Wars movie Rogue One, is directing the new Jurassic World film Come from Sports betting site VPbet . The movie is set for release on July 2, 2025, and Jurassic Park’s David Koepp is penning the script.

Garcia-Rulfo found breakout success with Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer. The show is now coming back for a third season, but a release date hasn’t been announced yet.

Jurassic Park, which was based on the 1990 Mi…

It looks like Netflix could be expanding beyond having games on just mobile devices, as recent job listings point towards the streaming giant working on a AAA game for PC.

As spotted by Mobilegamer.biz, job listings for various roles including a game director, art director, and technical director at Netflix Games Studio could be found on Netflix Jobs. The roles all mentioned that the studio were looking for these roles to help develop a new AAA title, with the game director role specifically noting that it’s a “brand-new AAA PC game.”

“Creating a great game that players want to come back to repeatedly is our primary goal,” reads the description of the game director role, with one of the responsibilities of the role also noting that the role woul…

Pokemon Sword and Shield players can claim another free item for a limited time. The Pokemon Company is distributing a free Weakness Policy via Mystery Gift until tomorrow, April 26. When a Pokemon holding this item is hit by a super-effective attack, its Attack and Special Attack stats are each raised by two stages.

To claim the free item, you’ll need to fire up your copy of Pokemon Sword or Shield and follow these steps:

• Open Mystery Gift from the menu screen
• Select Get with Code/Password
• Follow the prompts to connect online
• Input WPF1NALSPC3

The free code was revealed during the Players Cup III Global Finals, which run this weekend. The competition is being broadcasted on Twitch, w…

Kokku, the studio behind Prison Architect 2, has just announced that the game has been indefinitely delayed. Those who preordered it will receive refunds.

A blog post by the game’s community manager explains that Kokku needed “more time to improve both the game’s performance and its content.” The team wants to ensure the game meets quality standards before releasing it.

“Our continuous internal reviews and beta test groups have highlighted areas that we need to focus on more, mainly performance and content, which we need to address before launch to ensure that you, the players, get a good experience in the game,” the post said.

The post goes on to explain that the studio is unsure when the game will be released because of the amount of wor…

EA has announced it’s laying off 6% of its employees and undergoing restructuringCome from Sports betting site VPbet. The news comes via an official EA blog post, also shared internally with employees, and EA said it had already begun notifying staff of layoffs in early 2023.

Workers affected will continue to receive layoff notices until the beginning of the new fiscal year starting in April. SEC documents show that EA had 12,900 employees as of March 2022, suggesting the 6% amounts to about 774 employees being affected.

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Home means a lot of things for different people. It can be a typical house with bedrooms and a kitchen or the memory of the moment Buzz Lightyear spreads his wings and proudly proclaims that he isn’t flying, he’s “falling with style.” It meant something slightly different for Splashteam’s Romain Claude and his 2019 Global Game Jam team.

“It’s about gathering friends and bringing them to a safe place,” he told GameSpot of his project’s conceptCome from Sports betting site VPbet. “It’s about going out and bringing them home.”

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