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NHL Season to be Played Virtually

Posted by Zonk on from the virtual-skates-real-fans dept.

Matt Clare writes "G4TechTV will play the regular NHL season via EA Sports NHL game. G4TechTV Canada subsriptions might get a bigger boost than when they picked up Leo Laport."

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  1. G4TechTV by alatesystems · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only programming worth anything on G4TechTV are the shows which were on Tech TV. I've WANTED to like other g4 shows, but they suck. Arena: come on, who wants to hear play by plays on an rpg meetup. Cheats: that dude is annoying as hell and totally useless. G4TV: I'd rather watch Saved By The Bell.

    All their shows suck. The only tech tv show they kept that sucked was robot wars. I love the rest of the tech tv shows. I wish they had kept Call For Help(Viva Leo) and Tech Live(tv version of slashdot). I can't believe G4 killed those two.

    I never really learned anything from CFH in terms of computer using skills, but I picked up photoshop skills from Alex and I found out about some great shareware, and I love Leo's personality on tv.

    Kevin and Alex Albrecht are a great team on The Screensavers. I think that is really what keeps me paying all this money for digital cable.

    Chris

  2. ESPN NHL 2005? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I didn't read in the article where it mentions it was going to use EA's NHL 2005 game or any particular game, although the screenshot is that of Sega's ESPN NHL 2005. So what game (or other piece of software) are they going to use for the simulation?

  3. EA NHL by dave-tx · · Score: 3, Interesting
    My experience with the EA NHL series is that is sucks royal ass.

    Then again, I'm a hockey purist and am unlikely to be impressed by much (although I thought Wayne Gretzky 2 by Bethesda was most excellent, but would make for lousy TV broadcast).

    Yes, I'm angry and bitter that I won't plant myself in front of the tube for a season's worth of Flyers games. My wife has a greatly different view on the lockout.

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    >> "What would the robut do? Frame someone!"

  4. This is actually nothing new... by ElectroKiwiMonkey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I seem to remember back in the mid 90s, during one of the Baseball strikes, some TV station was simulating games on Genesis. Google isn't being my friend today, but I have a very clear memory of EGM running a news item about it at the time.

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    I am not a man, I am a free number.
  5. Re:Heh by Goobermunch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What's interesting to me is that the games will also air on SportsNet.

    From the article:

    "G4techTV video game hockey highlights will also air on Comcast SportsNet. "We'd rather be televising the live games, but until the real games resume, this presents a fun opportunity to maintain the fans' interest," comments Jack Williams, President and CEO of Comcast SportsNet. "This is a natural and creative extension of G4techTV's video game expertise.""

    --AC

  6. No mention of EA Sports NHL 2005 by unclethursday · · Score: 2, Interesting
    There is no mention of either EA Sports' NHL 2005 or Sega Sports' ESPN NHL 2K5 in the press release, and the image shown in the press release is from ESPN NHL 2K5, not EA's NHL 2005.

    To simply assume that it is EA's game is wrong. The press release does not state which game is used, and they could use either/or or both games to get them done.

    The only mention of EA Sports is in talking about their Madden Challenge. No hockey game is mentioned by name in the press release at all.