When Saber Interactive released NBA Playgrounds some time ago, the team was intending to pick up the slack where NBA Jam left off with arcade-style basketball. Alas, it missed the mark, due to nuances ...

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Basketball has become a Christmas tradition of sorts, and NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 is showing its holiday spirit with an all-new update. The most wonderful time of the year is alive on the court, and ...

The first NBA 2K Playgrounds was released about two years ago. The formula hasn't changed, and Playgrounds 2 still offers the same frantic 2v2 basketball matches that its predecessor did, but ...

The original NBA Playgrounds did a good job of putting the developers at Saber Interactive on the board with the basketball community, even if the game isn’t everything that it could’ve been. Still, ...

Sam has been writing online about video games since 2016 shortly after graduating college, but he has enjoyed them ever since he first played Crash Bandicoot on his dad's original PlayStation. As a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Mazique has covered combat sports and video games since 2011. This article is more than 7 years old. On Tuesday, the second ...

The genesis of their arrangement was a conversation between Saber and 2K Sports before the original NBA Playgrounds launched in the spring of 2017. But Saber, as an independent developer with very ...

While the original NBA Playgrounds filled a much-needed gap in the market, it did so imperfectly. But for all its flaws, NBA Playgrounds came with plenty of potential. And with 2K taking over the ...

2K adds another basketball title to its 2018 offerings with an arcade two-on-two on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Take a look at the gameplay trailer for NBA Playgrounds 2 which features a ...