NHL

It’s almost time to lace up your skates and do your best FLYING V! Time for your best knuckle pucks and triple dekes! QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK, while I am still waiting for EA to pump out a Mighty Ducks Edition or DLC for NHL 24, they haven’t announced it yet, but they did announce some stuff today ahead of NHL 24’s release this October. EA SPORTS has revealed more details about all of the exciting updates coming to NHL…

The yearly EA Sports releases are as predictable as santa coming down the chimney at Christmas to deliver gifts, but we’ve rounded up this years game with a bit of a blurb around our favourite aspects of each game! Let’s take a quick look at FIFA 23, NHL 23, and Madden 23! FIFA 23 isn’t doing a ton different from FIFA 22, and I think that will be a constant theme this year. That being said, FIFA 23 is still…

The last time I really loved a hockey game, Patrick Roy was tending the net for the Colorado Avalanche and the Columbus Blue Jackets — my de facto hometown team — was in its infancy, led by a guy with the last name of Tugnutt. Like many gamers my age (mid-30s), NHL ’94 will forever hold a special place in my heart. My go-to team back then, with Jaromir Jagr my favorite player. Add in the Mighty Ducks movie franchise,…

Despite being a Canadian, and despite loving the sport of hockey, I took a break from the annual NHL EA Sports release for the 2018 iteration, and during a year heavy with impressive titles from developers across the industry, it didn't actually miss it that much. When EA Sports came to Toronto a few weeks ago, and a few of my colleagues were able to attend, they couldn't stop raving about the improvements to NHL 19, so we reached out and thanks to EA Sports, received a copy to review!

We've commented and reviewed EA Access before when the service first launched and Xbox Canada supplied us with a 12 month review code, but I've since let my membership with the program lapse, not because there wasn't value, but as a reviewer, much of what was available on the service I had already played and completed, and with so much work on my desk at any given time, going back to an older title isn't a luxury I can have. With the recent launches of Madden 18 and (soon) NHL 18, I re-up'd my service thanks again to Xbox Canada, and realized the immense ...

Thanks to Sony’s PR company in Toronto, we got some hands on time with NHL 17 Beta, and we were really impressed. As Canadians, hockey is in our DNA, so it was inevitable that we were going to try this out and review it, some way, some how. That opportunity landed in our laps and we took advantage. EA Sports have been often criticized with their NHL series the last 3 or 4 years, so hopefully NHL 17 builds on…

NHL 15 was a lackluster effort from EA, and everybody knew it. The excuses were many - new hardware to deal with for example - but they were all the same excuses other sports titles could have used, but didn't. NHL 16 had a lot of rectifying to do, not only with the sport it was trying to accurately recreate, but also the fan base who 'went home' disappointed after a night at the rink in NHL 15. So, does NHL 16 fix all the problems present in last years premier hockey title?

At the 2015 NHL Awards in Las Vegas last week we saw the announcement to have two NHL stars displayed on the latest NHL game coming out this September. With the dominance that the Chicago Blackhawks have had over the last six years it was only fitting to put their Captain Jonathan Toews and elite star Patrick Kane on the cover holding the Stanley Cup.

EA Sports has announced the full version of the title NHL 16 for Xbox One and PS4 while also announcing NHL Legacy Edition for Xbox 360 and PS3. While the 360 and PS3 versions will include the usual popular modes and same gameplay as they have always included in the NHL games, the Xbox One and PS4 versions will reinstate features that were missing from NHL 15.