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Could the Decline of Violent Football Videogames Have Predicted the Future of Player Safety?

By Ben Sailer • March 10th, 2020

Football videogames in the early to mid-1990s reveled in over-the-top physical violence. Could the disappearance of that tendency be connected to changing public perception around the safety of the sport?

Collision Detection

Backing a Fake Basketball Underdog

By Ben Sailer • October 13th, 2019

It cannot be overstated exactly how bad NBA 2K has beaten NBA Live over the past two decades.

Shut Up and Play the Moments

By David Shimomura • September 6th, 2016

Madden is doing the smart thing by lowering the cost of entry to their franchise and making players into human highlight reels.

The Sporting Bane of Games

By Stephen Beirne • July 1st, 2013

Stephen Beirne embarks on a Swiftian treatise outlining the great tyranny of sports games.

Of Missed Tackles and Curveballs

By Ebenezer Samuel • June 6th, 2011

Over at Complex, Unwinnable’s Eb Samuel takes a look at the top 10 most unlike selections for sports videogame covers.

Ice Hockey

Love/Hate

By Dave Trainer • August 2nd, 2010

Dave Trainer laments the state of the sports simulation and remembers the best hockey videogame ever made: Ice Hockey for the NES.

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