by Kevin Greenstein | Oct 16, 2020 | Homepage, Video Games
Over the past 30 years, I’ve played virtually every entry in both the NHL and Madden video game series, dating back to NHLPA ’93 and John Madden Football ’93. Something struck me soon after Madden 21 was released, and so I went back and played NHL 20...
by Kevin Greenstein | Sep 25, 2020 | Homepage, Video Games
The release of EA Sports’ NHL video game has been an annual tradition for nearly 30 years (dating back to the release of NHL Hockey in 1991), and this year will be no different. On October 16th, the game will be available on both the PS4 and Xbox One platforms,...
by Kevin Greenstein | Sep 13, 2019 | Archived Features, Homepage, Video Games
It’s that most wonderful time of the year again, the time when every NHL team holds out hope that this will be the year that they raise Lord Stanley’s cherished chalice. And as the Cup-winning St. Louis Blues were literally in last place in the entire...
by Kevin Greenstein | Sep 18, 2018 | Homepage, Video Games
It was during the NHL’s magical 1992-93 season (captured beautifully in Todd Denault’s A Season in Time) that I was first exposed to EA’s hockey video game, by a hockey fanatic named Marc Brunengraber. Their second edition, NHLPA ’93, was the...
by Kevin Greenstein | Sep 22, 2017 | Homepage, Video Games
It’s been 25 years since the 1992-93 season, which was captured beautifully in A Season in Time, a terrific 2012 book by Todd Denault (and currently on sale at Amazon for only $1.99). That season saw an unprecedented offensive explosion led by the likes...
by Matt Linsky | Aug 6, 2014 | Homepage, Video Games
Just when you thought the EA Sports NHL series couldn’t get any better, NHL 15 happened. With the new consoles (Xbox One, PS3) out and thriving, head producer Sean Ramjagsingh and his team of technicians were able to take their off-season advancements to a whole new...
