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2016 · Visual Concepts
Following the record-breaking launch of NBA 2K16, the NBA 2K franchise continues to stake its claim as the most authentic sports video game with NBA 2K17. As the franchise that “all sports video games should aspire to be” (GamesRadar), NBA 2K17 will take the game to new heights and continue to blur the lines between video game and reality.
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2K asks players to 'contact local government' about Belgian loot box ban
Late last year, Sam Horti wrote about how the loot box controversy shaped gaming in 2017 . The same furore has inevitably rolled into this year, and a number of politicians, universities and gaming authorities have since expressed dismay with premium videogame consumables.  Now, publisher 2K h…
2K makes changes to NBA 2K microtransactions to comply with Belgium and Dutch gambling laws
2K has removed some elements of microtransactions from its basketball franchise, NBA 2K, in a bid to comply with gambling laws in Belgium and the Netherlands. According to Rock, Paper, Shotgun , two undated statements on the basketball arcade game's website detail how the developer has had to strip…
How game sizes got so huge, and why they'll get even bigger
'Crunch,' in modern parlance, is a period of unhealthy overwork during the lead up to a game's release. But in the not-too-distant past it could have also described the nature of the work itself: a crunching and culling of excess data, enough to squeeze the whole game onto a DVD or two and comforta…
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