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Electronic Arts’ CEO described a nail-biting 150-hour finish for NBA Elite 11, and the choice he made to cancel the game outright. “There aren’t many decisions that are essentially squarely on my desk,” John Riccitiello told Kotaku. “This was one.”(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Riccitiello, in an extensive interview with Stephen Totilo this week, candidly assessed the lay of the land for NBA products yono arcade and concluded that he was “kind of hard-pressed to find a constituency that is less well off from the decision we made.” EA Sports went back to the drawing board on something internal analysts pegged as around a 60-rated game; NBA Jam was uncoupled from it, which many consumers wanted; and the hardcore basketball fan still had a great simulation – it just wasn’t EA’s. “I don’t think the consumer was served badly by buying 2K,” he said. “It’s a good game. “I don’t want to sound self-satisfied,” Riccitiello said, “but I’m pretty proud of our ability to make that decision.” Electronic Arts’ boss also held forth on the PSP2, the end of skateboarding as a video game genre, how and if the music genre will rebound, and the company’s plan to take on Activision’s Call of Duty franchise. Kotaku’s week of original reporting, which also featured wall-to-wall coverage of what’s new in World of Warcraft’s heavily anticipated Cataclysm expansion, follows: Kotaku’s World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Coverage Top Stories The Plan To Dethrone Call Of Duty How A Big Video Game Was Killed One Man’s One-Word Dead Space 2 Review Diehard Nintendo Fans Debate Whether Donkey Kong Is Good Or Evil Everything You Need To Know About World of Warcraft: Cataclysm The Creepiest Rebirth Of Post-Cataclysm Azeroth The Only Way To Travel In Post-Cataclysm World Of Warcraft Tour World Of Warcraft’s Post-Cataclysm Barrens https://kotaku.com/the-plan-to-dethrone-call-of-duty-5705433 Columns Leigh Alexander: I Like Games Too Much To Finish Them Tim Rogers: The Imaginative Tim Rogers Answers Your Video Game Questions Stick Jockey: The Games For All Of Us https://kotaku.com/i-like-games-too-much-to-finish-them-5705281 Reviews, Previews, Hands-On and Impressions Frankenreview: Splatterhouse Asus Crosshair IV Extreme Motherboard Review: Lucid HydraLogix Inside Review: Auditorium HD Goes Chasing Waterfalls Review: Fable III Understone Quest Is No Mystery Review: Splatterhouse Is Just Bloody Offal Review: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn Relives The Glory Days Review: Mafia II: Joe’s Adventures – The Third Strike For A Repeat Offender Review: Gran yono business sbi Turismo 5 Is Premium Class https://kotaku.com/frankenreview-splatterhouse-5705555 Press Play Xbox Live Indie Clips: Space Police On Super Highway 9 Preparing For Cataclysmic Return To World Of Warcraft Let’s Infiltrate Xbox Headquarters This Is How Valkyria Chronicles 3 Begins The Most Shameless Starcraft Rip-Off You’ll See This Week Her Art Is A Symphony Of Evil A Look At Darkspore’s Cooperative Multiplayer U.S.A. 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