Hockey season starts early

Today I received my copy of NHL 2K9 for the Wii in the mail. I had pre-ordered it a few days before it was to be releaased in stores, making the assumption that I would get it around the same time or a little before. That was incorrect. The game launched last Tuesday and I [...]

I wanna drive the Zamboni

Image Credit: 2K Sports; GameSpot

According to an interview with 2K Sports’s Jeff Thomas, the first NHL game for the Wii will have an added bonus that I thought they would never add to a hockey game: driving the Zamboni.
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Action has also been taken to enrich elements peripheral to the actual hockey gameplay. The fighting engine [...]

2K Sports dekes EA, slates NHL 2K9

Okay Peter Moore, the puck is at your end of the ice now. Are you going to let 2K run away with a year of hockey for the Nintendo Wii and leave EA Sports on the bench?
From GameSpot:
NHL 2K9 sticking it to Wii
2K Sports announces first licensed hockey game for Nintendo’s system, promises Wii Remote [...]